1 Notmuch 0.27 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
4 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
5 ===========================
10 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`.
12 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
13 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
14 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
16 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
18 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
19 related abort in `notmuch show`.
21 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
22 ===========================
27 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
28 better late than never.
31 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
32 =========================
34 Command Line Interface
35 ----------------------
37 Support for re-indexing existing messages
39 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
40 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
41 change the way specific messages are indexed.
43 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
44 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
45 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
47 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
49 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
51 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
53 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
54 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
55 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
56 the setting of `new.tags`.
58 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
60 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
62 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
64 This inserts into the top level folder.
66 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
68 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
70 New option --output=address for notmuch address
72 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
74 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
76 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
77 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
78 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
80 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
85 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
87 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
88 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
89 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
90 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
91 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
92 config set index.decrypt true".
94 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
95 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
96 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
97 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
98 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
99 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
100 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
101 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
103 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
104 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
105 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
106 this feature without considering the security of your index.
111 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
113 Use make-process when available
115 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
116 notmuch command without using temporary files.
121 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
123 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
124 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
125 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
126 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
128 New functions to count files
130 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
131 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
133 New function to remove properties
135 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
136 drop all properties with a common pattern:
137 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
139 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
141 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
142 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
143 possibility of NULL was not documented.
145 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
147 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
148 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
149 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
150 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
151 operator may decide to change from message to message.
158 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
159 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
160 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
166 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
168 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
169 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
171 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
173 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
175 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
177 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
182 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
183 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
185 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
186 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
187 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
188 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
189 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
190 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
195 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
197 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
198 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
199 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
200 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
202 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
203 ===========================
208 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
209 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
212 Command Line Interface
213 ----------------------
215 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
216 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
219 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
220 ===========================
222 Command Line Interface
223 ----------------------
225 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
226 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
231 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
234 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
235 ===========================
240 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
243 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
244 =========================
249 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
251 Skip HTML tags when indexing
253 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
255 Command Line Interface
256 ----------------------
258 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
260 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
265 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
267 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
268 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
271 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
276 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
278 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
279 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
281 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
283 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
284 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
287 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
289 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
291 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
293 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
294 ===========================
296 Command Line Interface
297 ----------------------
299 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
304 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
306 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
307 ===========================
312 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
314 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
315 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
318 Command Line Interface
319 ----------------------
321 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
323 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
325 Fix bug in dump header
327 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
328 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
329 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
334 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
336 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
337 =========================
342 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
344 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
347 Command Line Interface
348 ----------------------
350 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
352 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
353 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
354 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
356 New default output format to 3
358 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
359 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
360 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
361 default format changes.
366 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
368 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
369 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
370 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
371 or tree view to resume.
373 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
374 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
375 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
378 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
379 they were when you postponed in the final message.
383 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
384 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
385 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
386 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
387 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
391 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
392 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
393 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
394 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
395 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
396 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
400 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
401 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
403 Stop display of `application/*` parts
405 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
406 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
407 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
408 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
409 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
410 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
411 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
412 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
415 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
417 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
418 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
419 only tagged the current thread.)
421 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
423 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
424 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
425 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
427 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
429 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
430 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
431 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
432 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
433 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
434 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
435 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
437 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
439 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
440 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
441 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
446 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
448 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
451 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
453 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
456 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
457 ===========================
462 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
464 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
465 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
466 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
469 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
470 ===========================
472 Command Line Interface
473 ----------------------
475 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
480 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
482 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
483 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
484 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
486 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
487 ===========================
492 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
493 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
495 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
496 ===========================
498 Command Line Interface
499 ----------------------
501 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
503 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
504 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
505 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
510 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
512 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
513 ===========================
515 Command Line Interface
516 ----------------------
518 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
523 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
525 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
526 ===========================
531 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
533 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
534 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
535 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
537 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
539 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
541 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
542 ===========================
547 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
549 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
554 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
556 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
557 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
558 the original colours.
560 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
561 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
563 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
565 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
566 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
567 bug, and hence the test.
569 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
570 =========================
572 General (Xapian 1.4+)
573 ---------------------
575 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
577 Support for single argument date: queries
579 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
581 Support for blocking opens
583 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
584 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
586 Support for named queries
588 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
589 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
590 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
597 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
598 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
599 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
600 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
602 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
604 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
609 Support for compile time options
611 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
612 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
615 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
617 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
618 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
619 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
620 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
621 scripts to ignore it.
626 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
628 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
629 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
630 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
632 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
633 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
634 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
635 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
636 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
637 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
638 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
640 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
641 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
644 Make internal address completion customizable
646 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
647 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
648 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
649 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
652 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
654 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
655 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
656 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
657 completion for the current buffer.
659 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
660 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
661 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
665 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
666 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
667 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
668 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
669 will be added instead.
671 Face customization is easier
673 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
674 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
675 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
676 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
678 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
683 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
688 Go bindings moved to contrib
690 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
692 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
694 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
695 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
697 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
699 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
700 ===========================
707 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
708 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
710 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
712 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
714 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
715 ===========================
720 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
722 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
727 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
732 Use `env` to locate perl.
737 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
739 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
741 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
743 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
745 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
746 =========================
753 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
754 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
756 Limited support for S/MIME messages
758 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
759 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
760 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
765 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
766 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
767 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
769 Command Line Interface
770 ----------------------
772 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
774 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
779 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
784 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
786 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
787 parts are now included in replies.
789 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
790 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
791 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
792 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
794 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
796 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
798 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
800 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
801 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
802 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
803 forwards only the current message.
805 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
807 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
808 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
809 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
810 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
811 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
812 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
813 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
814 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
817 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
818 longer generate empty buffers
820 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
821 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
822 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
823 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
824 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
826 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
828 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
831 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
833 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
836 Address completion improvements
838 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
839 you previously configured one, customize the variable
840 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
841 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
842 interactive address completion.
844 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
846 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
847 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
848 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
853 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
854 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
855 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
861 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
862 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
863 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
864 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
865 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
866 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
868 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
869 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
870 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
871 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
872 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
873 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
875 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
876 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
878 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
879 =========================
884 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
887 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
889 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
890 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
891 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
893 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
894 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
896 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
897 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
898 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
900 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
902 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
903 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
904 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
905 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
906 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
907 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
912 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
913 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
916 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
919 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
921 Command Line Interface
922 ----------------------
924 Database revision tracking
926 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
927 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
928 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
929 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
931 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
933 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
934 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
935 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
936 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
937 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
938 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
939 manual page for further information.
944 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
946 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
947 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
949 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
951 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
952 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
953 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
955 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
957 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
959 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
960 customization as well.
962 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
964 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
966 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
968 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
970 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
971 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
972 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
973 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
975 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
977 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
978 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
979 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
980 this variable to 10000.
985 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
986 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
988 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
990 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
991 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
992 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
993 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
994 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
995 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
996 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
997 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
998 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1001 Database revision tracking
1003 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1004 query parser and the new function
1005 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1007 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1009 Deprecated functions
1011 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1012 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1013 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1014 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1019 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1021 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1022 ===========================
1027 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1029 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1030 ===========================
1035 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1037 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1038 =========================
1040 Command-Line Interface
1041 ----------------------
1043 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1045 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1046 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1047 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1049 Path to gpg is now configurable
1051 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1052 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1057 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1059 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1064 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1069 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1074 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1076 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1077 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1079 New error logging facility
1081 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1082 output formerly printed to stderr.
1084 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1086 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1088 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1090 Fix for rounding of seconds
1095 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1097 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1098 documentation has been removed.
1100 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1102 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1103 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1108 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1109 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1110 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1115 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1116 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1117 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1118 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1119 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1120 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1123 git checkout config origin/config
1125 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1127 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1128 =========================
1133 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1134 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1135 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1136 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1137 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1138 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1139 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1141 Command-Line Interface
1142 ----------------------
1144 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1146 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1147 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1148 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1149 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1150 script callers should still check the return value.
1152 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1154 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1155 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1156 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1157 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1158 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1159 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1160 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1162 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1164 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1165 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1166 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1168 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1170 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1171 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1172 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1173 currently unmaintained.
1175 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1177 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1178 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1179 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1180 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1182 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1184 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1185 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1186 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1187 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1188 count of duplicate addresses.
1193 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1195 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1196 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1197 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1200 Improved handling of the unread tag
1202 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1203 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1204 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1205 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1206 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1207 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1208 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1210 Expanded default saved search settings
1212 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1213 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1215 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1217 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1218 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1219 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1221 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1223 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1224 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1225 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1226 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1227 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1228 the variable for details.
1233 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1235 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1236 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1237 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1238 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1240 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1242 Previously, library users were required to call
1243 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1244 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1245 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1246 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1247 too out of date for that API.
1249 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1251 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1252 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1253 atomic section will be aborted.
1255 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1256 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1258 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1260 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1261 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1262 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1263 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1264 messages into the same thread.
1269 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1270 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1271 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1272 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1273 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1274 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1279 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1280 from the config file. Use something like:
1284 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1285 "footer": "</body></html>",
1294 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1299 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1300 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1301 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1303 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1304 ===========================
1309 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1311 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1313 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1315 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1316 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1318 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1320 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1323 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1324 ===========================
1326 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1331 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1333 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1335 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1337 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1339 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1345 Use --quick when starting emacs
1347 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1349 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1351 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1353 Command-Line Interface
1354 ----------------------
1356 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1357 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1362 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1364 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1365 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1367 Fix for phrase indexing
1369 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1370 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1371 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1376 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1378 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1379 unintentionally removed.
1381 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1382 =========================
1387 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1388 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1389 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1390 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1391 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1392 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1393 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1394 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1395 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1401 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1403 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1404 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1405 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1406 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1407 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1408 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1409 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1410 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1412 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1414 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1415 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1416 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1417 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1420 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1422 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1423 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1424 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1425 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1426 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1427 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1428 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1433 Notmuch database upgrade
1435 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1436 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1437 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1438 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1439 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1440 released version of Notmuch before now.
1442 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1444 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1445 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1446 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1447 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1449 Message header parsing changes
1451 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1452 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1453 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1454 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1455 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1456 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1458 Command-Line Interface
1459 ----------------------
1461 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1463 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1465 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1467 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1469 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1471 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1472 user does not want it.
1474 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1476 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1477 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
1478 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1479 support formatted output.
1481 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1483 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1484 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1485 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1493 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1494 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1495 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1496 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1497 `~/.emacs` with these.
1499 Changed format for saved searches
1501 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1502 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1503 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1504 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1507 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1508 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1509 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1510 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1512 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1513 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1514 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1516 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1517 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1518 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1519 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1520 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1522 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1524 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1525 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1526 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1528 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1530 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1531 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1532 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1533 message had been unread).
1535 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1536 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1537 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1538 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1540 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1541 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1542 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1544 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1545 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1546 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1547 to tags already present.
1551 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1552 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1553 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1554 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1555 these differ from each other.
1556 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1558 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1560 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1561 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1562 for these Emacs versions.
1564 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1566 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1567 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1569 Bug fixes for sender identities
1571 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1572 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1573 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1575 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1577 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1578 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1579 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1580 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1582 Reply pushes mark before signature
1584 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1585 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1586 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1588 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1590 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1591 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1597 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1598 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1600 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1601 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1602 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1603 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1605 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1606 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1607 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1608 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1609 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1611 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
1613 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1614 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1616 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1617 =========================
1619 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1620 ---------------------------------------
1622 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1623 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1624 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1625 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1626 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1627 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1628 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1632 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1633 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1635 Command-Line Interface
1636 ----------------------
1638 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1640 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1641 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1642 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1643 print for each message.
1645 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1646 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1647 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1648 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1650 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1652 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1653 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1654 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1656 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1658 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1659 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1660 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1661 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1663 `notmuch compact` command
1665 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1666 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1667 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1668 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1669 move the compacted database into place.
1674 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1676 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1677 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1678 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1679 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1680 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1681 and multiple threads.
1683 Using `notmuch-tree`
1685 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1687 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1688 search, show and tree mode itself)
1690 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1693 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1694 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1696 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1698 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1699 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1700 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1701 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1702 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1703 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1704 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1706 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1708 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1709 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1710 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1711 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1712 thread when the search was performed.
1714 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1716 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1717 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1718 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1720 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1722 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1723 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1726 Built-in help improvements
1728 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1729 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1730 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1732 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1734 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1735 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1736 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1738 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1740 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1741 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1743 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1745 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1746 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1747 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1748 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1750 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1752 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1753 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1754 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1755 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1757 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1759 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1760 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1761 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1763 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1765 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1766 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1767 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1769 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1771 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1772 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1773 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1774 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1775 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1777 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1779 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1780 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1781 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1782 the body part of the message.
1787 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1788 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1789 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1791 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1792 =========================
1794 Command-Line Interface
1795 ----------------------
1797 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1799 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1800 folder and notmuch index.
1802 `notmuch count --batch` option
1804 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1805 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1807 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1809 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1810 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1811 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1814 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1816 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1817 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1818 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1819 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1820 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1823 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1825 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1826 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1828 Top level option to specify configuration file
1830 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1831 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1833 Bash command-line completion
1835 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1836 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1837 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1838 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1839 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1840 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1841 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1842 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1843 bash-completion package.
1845 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1850 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1852 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1853 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1854 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1855 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1856 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1857 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1858 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1859 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1861 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1863 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1864 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1865 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1867 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1869 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1870 previous thread in the search results.
1872 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1874 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1875 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1877 Faster search and show
1879 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1880 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1881 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1882 threads should show faster.
1886 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1887 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1888 in question was now removed from this release.
1893 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1894 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1899 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1901 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1902 ===========================
1907 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1909 Internal test framework changes
1910 -------------------------------
1912 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1913 being unimplemented.
1915 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1916 ===========================
1918 Internal test framework changes
1919 -------------------------------
1921 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1922 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1924 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1925 =========================
1930 Date range search support
1932 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1933 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1934 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1935 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1936 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1939 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1941 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1942 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1943 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1944 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1945 but may be removed in a future release.
1947 Command-Line Interface
1948 ----------------------
1950 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1952 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1953 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1955 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1957 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1958 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1959 officially deprecated.
1961 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1963 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1964 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1965 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1967 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1969 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1970 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1973 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1974 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1975 dump/restore format.
1977 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1979 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1980 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1981 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1983 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1985 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1986 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1987 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1989 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1991 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1992 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1993 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1994 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1999 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2001 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2002 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2003 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2004 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2006 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2008 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2009 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2010 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2011 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2012 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2013 the behavior of this, see
2014 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2015 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2017 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2018 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2019 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2021 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2023 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2024 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2027 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2029 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2030 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2031 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2032 simply displayed in place of the message.
2034 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2036 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2037 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2039 Improved text/calendar content handling
2041 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2042 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2043 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2044 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2046 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2048 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2049 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2050 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2051 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2053 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2055 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2056 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2057 for HTML email containing images.
2059 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2061 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2063 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2065 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2068 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2070 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2071 the point where it was.
2073 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2075 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2076 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2077 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2078 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2079 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2081 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2083 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2084 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2085 thread instead of the message id.
2087 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2088 -----------------------------
2090 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2091 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2092 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2093 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2094 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2095 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2096 further details and installation.
2101 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2103 Internal test framework changes
2104 -------------------------------
2106 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2108 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2109 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2110 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2111 can result in buggy behavior.
2113 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2114 =========================
2119 Maildir tag synchronization
2121 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2122 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2123 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2124 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2125 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2126 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2129 Command-Line Interface
2130 ----------------------
2132 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2133 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2134 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2135 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2136 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2142 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2144 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2146 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2147 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2148 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2150 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2152 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2153 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2154 span multiple lines.
2156 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2158 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2159 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2160 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2161 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2162 inside the result or message.
2164 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2166 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2167 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2169 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2170 user-specified formatting
2172 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2173 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2174 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2175 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2176 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2178 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2179 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2181 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2182 ===========================
2187 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2188 compilation error for this contrib package.
2190 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2191 ===========================
2196 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2198 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2199 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2200 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2201 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2203 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2204 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2207 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2208 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2209 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2210 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2213 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2215 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2218 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2219 =========================
2221 Command-Line Interface
2222 ----------------------
2226 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2227 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2228 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2229 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2231 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2232 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2233 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2234 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2238 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2239 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2241 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2242 tag in your query, for example:
2244 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2246 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2247 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2249 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2250 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2252 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2254 Raw show format changes
2256 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2257 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2258 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2259 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2260 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2261 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2262 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2263 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2265 Listing configuration items
2267 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2273 Changes to tagging interface
2275 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2276 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2277 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2278 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2279 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2280 for more information.
2282 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2283 may need to update in custom configurations.
2285 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2287 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2288 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2289 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2290 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2293 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2294 -----------------------------
2296 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2297 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2298 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2299 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2300 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2301 contrib/ from now on.
2306 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2307 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2309 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2310 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2312 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2313 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2314 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2316 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2317 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2319 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2320 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2321 returning the new database object or directory object.
2328 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2329 compatible with go 1.
2331 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2332 =========================
2334 Command-Line Interface
2335 ----------------------
2339 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2340 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2341 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2342 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2344 Mail store folder/file ignore
2346 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2347 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2348 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2350 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2351 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2353 Unified help and manual pages
2355 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2356 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2359 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2361 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2362 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2370 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2371 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2372 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2373 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2375 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2377 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2378 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2380 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2383 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2384 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2385 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2387 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2389 should be changed to:
2391 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2393 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2395 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2396 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2398 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2400 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2401 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2402 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2403 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2404 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2405 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2409 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2410 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2411 of Mailing List Archives.
2413 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2415 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2416 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2419 Show view archiving key binding changes
2421 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2422 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2423 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2424 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2425 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2428 Support text/calendar MIME type
2430 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2433 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2435 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2436 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2437 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2438 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2440 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2442 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2443 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2444 messages blue by default in the search view.
2448 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2449 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2456 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2459 Python bindings changes
2460 -----------------------
2462 Python 3.2 compatibility
2464 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2466 Added missing unicode conversions
2468 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2469 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2470 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2475 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2477 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2478 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2479 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2480 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2481 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2483 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2484 ===========================
2489 Fix error handling in python bindings
2491 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2492 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2493 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2494 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2496 Quote MML tags in replies
2498 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2499 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2500 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2501 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2502 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2503 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2504 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2505 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2507 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2508 =========================
2510 Command-Line Interface
2511 ----------------------
2515 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2516 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2517 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2518 importing new messages into the database.
2520 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2522 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2523 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2524 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2529 Automatic tag query optimization
2531 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2532 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2533 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2535 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2537 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2538 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2539 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2544 Reduction of memory leaks
2546 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2547 and fixed in this release.
2554 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2555 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2556 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2559 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2561 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2562 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2563 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2566 Improvements in saved search management
2568 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2569 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2570 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2572 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2574 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2575 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2576 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2578 New face for crypto parts headers
2580 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2581 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2582 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2585 Use space as default thousands separator
2587 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2588 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2589 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2591 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2592 buttonized id: links
2594 New function notmuch-show-advance
2596 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2597 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2598 be bound to SPC with:
2600 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2602 Various performance improvements
2607 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2608 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2611 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2612 ===========================
2617 Fix crash in python bindings
2619 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2620 for some, but not all users.
2622 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2623 ===========================
2628 Fix `--help` argument
2630 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2631 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2632 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2634 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2635 =========================
2637 New build and testing features
2638 ------------------------------
2640 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2641 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2642 prerequisites is improved.
2644 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2646 New command-line features
2647 -------------------------
2649 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2651 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2652 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2655 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2657 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2658 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2659 favour of using stdout.
2661 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2663 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2664 limit the number of results shown.
2666 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2668 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2669 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2672 New emacs UI features
2673 ---------------------
2675 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2677 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2678 starting with "tag:".
2680 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2682 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2683 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2685 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2687 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2689 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2691 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2692 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2697 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2699 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2701 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2702 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2703 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2704 requires a database rebuild:
2706 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2707 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2709 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2711 New collection of add-on tools
2712 ------------------------------
2714 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2715 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2716 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2719 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2721 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2722 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
2723 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2725 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2726 ========================
2728 New, general features
2729 ---------------------
2731 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2733 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2734 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2735 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2736 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2737 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2744 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2745 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2747 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2751 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2752 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2753 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2756 Python bindings changes
2757 -----------------------
2759 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2761 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2762 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2763 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2764 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2765 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2766 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2768 Ruby bindings changes
2769 ---------------------
2771 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2772 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2773 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2774 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2779 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2781 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2782 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2784 Reply formatting cleanup
2785 ------------------------
2787 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2788 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2790 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2791 ========================
2793 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2795 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2796 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2797 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2798 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2801 Improved Build system portability
2803 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2804 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2805 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2807 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2809 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2811 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2813 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2814 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2815 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2817 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2818 ========================
2820 Vim interface improvements
2821 --------------------------
2823 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2825 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2826 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2827 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2828 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2829 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2831 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2833 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2834 * fix compose temp file name
2836 Python Bindings changes
2837 -----------------------
2839 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2841 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2842 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2844 Build-System improvements
2845 -------------------------
2847 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2849 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2852 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2853 ==========================
2858 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2860 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2861 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2863 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2864 =======================
2866 New, general features
2867 ---------------------
2869 Folder-based searching
2871 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2872 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2873 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2877 For example, one might use things such as:
2883 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2884 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2886 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2887 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2888 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2889 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2891 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2892 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2893 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2896 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2897 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2899 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2901 Support for PGP/MIME
2903 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2904 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2905 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2907 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2909 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2910 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2912 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2913 notmuch will receive these tags.
2915 New command-line features
2916 -------------------------
2918 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2920 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2921 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2923 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2925 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2926 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2927 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2929 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2931 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2932 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2933 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2934 which parts a signature part applies).
2936 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2938 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2939 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2940 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2941 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2942 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2945 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2947 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2948 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2949 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2950 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2951 by translating it internally to the new call.
2953 Performance improvements
2954 ------------------------
2956 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2958 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2959 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2960 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2962 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2963 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2965 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2967 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2968 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2969 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2971 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2972 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2973 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2974 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2976 Faster initial indexing
2978 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2979 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2980 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2982 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2984 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2985 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2986 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2987 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2989 New emacs-interface features
2990 ----------------------------
2992 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2994 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2995 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2996 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2997 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2998 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2999 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3001 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3003 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3004 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3005 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3006 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3008 User-selectable From address
3010 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3011 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3012 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3013 will prompt for the from address to use.
3015 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3016 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3017 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3019 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3020 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3021 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3024 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3026 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3027 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3029 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3031 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3033 ----- Original Message -----
3035 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3036 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3037 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3038 citations work much like conventional citations.
3040 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3042 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3043 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3044 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3045 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3046 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3048 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3049 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3051 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3053 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3054 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3055 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3057 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3059 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3060 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3061 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3062 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3063 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3065 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3067 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3070 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3072 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3074 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3076 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3079 Vim interface improvements
3080 --------------------------
3082 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3084 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3085 * Implementing archive in show view
3086 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3087 * Add delete commands
3090 Bindings improvements
3091 ---------------------
3093 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3095 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3096 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3098 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3100 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3104 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3105 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3106 `list(Messages)` works now
3107 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3109 These allow, for example:
3111 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3113 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3115 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3121 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3123 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3126 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3128 New build-system features
3129 -------------------------
3131 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3133 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3134 the configure script from some other directory:
3141 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3143 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3144 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3145 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3146 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3147 manual invocation of configure.
3149 New test-suite feature
3150 ----------------------
3152 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3154 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3155 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3156 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3157 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3158 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3161 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3163 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3164 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3165 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3166 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3167 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3168 are updated to take advantage of this.
3170 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3172 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3173 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3174 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3175 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3181 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3183 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3184 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3185 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3187 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3189 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3191 to:user@elsewhere.com
3193 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3195 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3197 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3199 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3200 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3201 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3204 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3205 from the Received headers in some cases
3207 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3208 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3210 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3212 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3214 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3216 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3217 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3218 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3220 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3221 -------------------------
3223 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3225 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3226 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3227 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3229 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3231 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3232 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3233 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3236 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3238 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3239 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3240 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3241 fixed to avoid this bug.
3243 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3245 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3246 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3248 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3249 ========================
3251 New, general features
3252 ---------------------
3254 Maildir-flag synchronization
3256 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3257 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3266 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3268 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3269 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3270 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3271 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3273 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3274 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3275 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3276 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3279 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3281 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3282 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3283 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3285 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3286 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3288 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3289 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3291 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3292 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3293 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3295 New library features
3296 --------------------
3298 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3300 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3301 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3302 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3303 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3305 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3306 message with the new function:
3308 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3310 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3311 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3312 over all available filenames for a given message.
3314 New command-line features
3315 -------------------------
3317 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3319 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3320 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3321 access to the mail store itself.
3323 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3324 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3325 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3326 name of a script containing:
3328 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3330 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3331 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3337 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3339 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3341 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3343 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3344 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3345 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3346 now produces nothing).
3348 Emacs interface improvements
3349 ----------------------------
3351 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3353 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3355 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3357 Display current thread subject in a header line
3359 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3361 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3363 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3364 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3365 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3366 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3367 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3368 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3369 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3371 Vim interface improvements
3372 --------------------------
3374 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3376 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3377 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3383 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3385 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3386 ========================
3388 New command-line features
3389 -------------------------
3391 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3393 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3394 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3395 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3397 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3398 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3399 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3400 scripts. For example:
3402 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3403 <operations-on> "$file"
3406 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3408 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3409 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3410 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3411 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3412 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3413 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3415 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3417 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3418 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3419 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3420 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3422 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3424 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3425 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3426 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3427 default rather than Bcc.
3429 New library features
3430 --------------------
3432 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3434 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3435 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3440 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3442 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3443 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3444 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3445 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3446 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3447 notmuch customize interface.
3449 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3451 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3452 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3453 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3454 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3456 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3458 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3459 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3460 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3461 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3463 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3465 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3466 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3467 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3468 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3469 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3470 notmuch customize interface.
3472 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3474 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3475 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3476 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3477 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3478 notmuch customize interface.
3480 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3482 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3483 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3484 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3485 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3488 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3490 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3491 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3492 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3495 New build-system features
3496 -------------------------
3498 Various portability fixes have been applied
3500 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3501 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3502 more portable than ever before.
3504 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3506 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3507 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3508 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3510 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3511 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3512 automatically run ldconfig.
3514 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3515 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3516 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3518 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3519 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3520 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3521 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3523 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3525 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3526 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3527 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3528 used in the resulting Makefile.
3530 New test-suite features
3531 -----------------------
3533 New modularization of test suite
3535 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3536 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3537 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3538 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3539 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3540 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3541 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3542 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3544 New testing of emacs interface
3546 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3547 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3548 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3549 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3550 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3551 database via the FCC setting.
3556 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3558 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3559 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3560 persistent error of the form:
3562 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3564 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3565 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3567 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3569 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3570 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3571 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3573 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3575 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3576 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3577 parsing the notmuch results).
3579 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3581 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3584 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3585 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3586 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3591 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3593 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3594 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3595 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3596 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3597 the emacs interface.
3599 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3601 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3602 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3603 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3605 Python-binding fixes
3606 --------------------
3608 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3610 Debian-specific fixes
3611 ---------------------
3613 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3615 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3616 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3617 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3620 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3621 ==========================
3626 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3628 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3629 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3630 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3631 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3633 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3635 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3636 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3637 want notmuch to crash.
3642 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3644 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3645 directory does not exist
3650 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3652 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3653 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3655 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3656 ========================
3658 New command-line features
3659 -------------------------
3661 User-configurable tags for new messages
3663 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3664 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3665 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3666 to specify this value.
3668 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3670 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3671 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3672 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3674 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3676 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3677 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3679 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3681 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3682 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3683 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3684 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3685 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3688 Indication of author names that match a search
3690 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3691 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3692 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3693 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3694 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3695 messages in the thread are listed first.
3697 New: Python bindings
3698 --------------------
3700 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3701 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3702 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3703 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3705 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3706 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3707 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3710 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3711 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3712 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3714 Emacs interface improvements
3715 ----------------------------
3717 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3719 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3720 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3721 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3722 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3723 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3724 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3725 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3726 but without any of the disadvantages).
3728 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3729 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3730 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3733 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3734 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3735 instead running something like:
3737 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3739 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3740 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3741 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3744 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3746 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3747 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3748 tweaked by the user.
3750 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3751 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3752 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3755 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3756 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3757 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3760 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3762 This support currently relies on an external program,
3763 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3764 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3765 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3766 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3767 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3770 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3771 notmuch) is available via:
3773 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3775 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3776 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3777 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3779 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3781 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3782 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3783 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3784 making this automatic in a future release.
3786 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3788 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3789 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3790 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3791 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3792 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3793 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3796 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3798 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3799 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3800 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3802 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3804 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3805 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3806 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3808 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3809 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3810 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3811 other representation.
3813 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3814 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3817 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3819 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3820 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3821 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3823 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3824 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3825 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3827 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3829 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3830 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3831 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3832 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3833 to display the search result.
3835 More flexible handling of header visibility
3837 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3838 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3839 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3840 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3841 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3842 with the 'h' keybinding.
3844 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3845 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3846 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3848 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3850 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3852 Customizable formatting of search results
3854 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3855 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3856 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3858 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3860 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3862 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3867 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3869 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3870 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3871 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3872 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3878 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3880 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3881 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3883 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3885 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3886 accept are now all accepted.
3891 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3893 Better display of output from failed tests
3895 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3896 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3898 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3899 ========================
3901 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3902 detailed release notes this time!
3904 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3905 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3907 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3908 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3909 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3910 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3917 Better guessing of From: header
3919 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3920 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3921 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3922 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3923 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3926 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3928 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3929 guaranteed to match all messages.
3931 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3933 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3934 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3935 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3936 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3937 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3940 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3943 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3944 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3945 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3946 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3951 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3953 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3954 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3955 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3956 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3958 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3960 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3962 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3963 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3964 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3966 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3968 Previously, the user might see:
3970 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3974 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3976 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3977 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3978 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3979 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3981 Emacs client features
3982 ---------------------
3984 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3986 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3987 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3988 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3989 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3990 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3992 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3995 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3996 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3997 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3998 search with the '*' binding.
4000 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4002 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4003 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4006 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4008 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4009 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4010 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4012 Build-system features
4013 ---------------------
4015 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4017 Add support to configure for many standard options
4019 We include actual support for:
4021 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4023 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4025 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4026 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4028 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4029 separate "make install-emacs"
4031 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4033 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4034 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4035 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4037 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4040 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4041 ========================
4043 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4045 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4046 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4048 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4049 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4050 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4051 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4052 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4053 tags from messages in a thread.
4060 indent-tabs-mode: nil