1 Notmuch 0.26 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
9 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
10 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
11 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
14 Command Line Interface
15 ----------------------
17 Support for re-indexing existing messages
19 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
20 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
21 change the way specific messages are indexed.
23 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
24 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
25 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
27 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
29 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
31 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
33 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
34 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
35 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
36 the setting of `new.tags`.
41 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
43 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
44 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
45 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
46 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
47 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
48 config set index.decrypt true".
50 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
51 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
52 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
53 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
54 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
55 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
56 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
57 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
59 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
60 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
61 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
62 this feature without considering the security of your index.
67 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
69 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
70 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
71 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
72 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
74 New functions to count files
76 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
77 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
79 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
81 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
82 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
83 possibility of NULL was not documented.
85 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
87 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
88 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
89 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
90 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
91 operator may decide to change from message to message.
96 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
98 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
99 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
101 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
103 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
105 Add python bindings for notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*
110 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
111 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
113 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
114 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
115 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
116 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
117 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
118 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
120 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
121 ===========================
126 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
127 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
130 Command Line Interface
131 ----------------------
133 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
134 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
137 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
138 ===========================
140 Command Line Interface
141 ----------------------
143 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
144 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
149 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
152 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
153 ===========================
158 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
161 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
162 =========================
167 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
169 Skip HTML tags when indexing
171 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
173 Command Line Interface
174 ----------------------
176 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
178 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
183 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
185 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
186 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
189 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
194 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
196 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
197 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
199 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
201 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
202 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
205 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
207 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
209 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
211 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
212 ===========================
214 Command Line Interface
215 ----------------------
217 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
222 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
224 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
225 ===========================
230 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
232 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
233 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
236 Command Line Interface
237 ----------------------
239 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
241 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
243 Fix bug in dump header
245 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
246 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
247 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
252 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
254 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
255 =========================
260 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
262 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
265 Command Line Interface
266 ----------------------
268 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
270 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
271 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
272 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
274 New default output format to 3
276 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
277 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
278 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
279 default format changes.
284 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
286 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
287 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
288 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
289 or tree view to resume.
291 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
292 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
293 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
296 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
297 they were when you postponed in the final message.
301 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
302 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
303 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
304 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
305 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
309 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
310 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
311 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
312 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
313 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
314 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
318 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
319 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
321 Stop display of `application/*` parts
323 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
324 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
325 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
326 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
327 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
328 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
329 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
330 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
333 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
335 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
336 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
337 only tagged the current thread.)
339 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
341 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
342 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
343 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
345 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
347 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
348 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
349 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
350 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
351 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
352 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
353 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
355 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
357 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
358 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
359 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
364 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
366 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
369 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
371 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
374 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
375 ===========================
380 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
382 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
383 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
384 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
387 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
388 ===========================
390 Command Line Interface
391 ----------------------
393 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
398 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
400 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
401 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
402 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
404 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
405 ===========================
410 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
411 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
413 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
414 ===========================
416 Command Line Interface
417 ----------------------
419 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
421 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
422 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
423 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
428 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
430 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
431 ===========================
433 Command Line Interface
434 ----------------------
436 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
441 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
443 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
444 ===========================
449 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
451 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
452 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
453 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
455 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
457 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
459 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
460 ===========================
465 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
467 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
472 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
474 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
475 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
476 the original colours.
478 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
479 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
481 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
483 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
484 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
485 bug, and hence the test.
487 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
488 =========================
490 General (Xapian 1.4+)
491 ---------------------
493 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
495 Support for single argument date: queries
497 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
499 Support for blocking opens
501 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
502 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
504 Support for named queries
506 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
507 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
508 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
515 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
516 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
517 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
518 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
520 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
522 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
527 Support for compile time options
529 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
530 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
533 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
535 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
536 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
537 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
538 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
539 scripts to ignore it.
544 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
546 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
547 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
548 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
550 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
551 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
552 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
553 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
554 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
555 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
556 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
558 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
559 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
562 Make internal address completion customizable
564 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
565 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
566 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
567 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
570 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
572 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
573 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
574 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
575 completion for the current buffer.
577 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
578 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
579 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
583 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
584 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
585 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
586 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
587 will be added instead.
589 Face customization is easier
591 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
592 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
593 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
594 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
596 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
601 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
606 Go bindings moved to contrib
608 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
610 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
612 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
613 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
615 The same issue occured with sort modes.
617 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
618 ===========================
625 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
626 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
628 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
630 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
632 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
633 ===========================
638 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
640 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
645 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
650 Use `env` to locate perl.
655 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
657 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
659 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
661 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
663 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
664 =========================
671 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
672 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
674 Limited support for S/MIME messages
676 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
677 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
678 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
683 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
684 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
685 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
687 Command Line Interface
688 ----------------------
690 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
692 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
697 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
702 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
704 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
705 parts are now included in replies.
707 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
708 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
709 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
710 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
712 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
714 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
716 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
718 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
719 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
720 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
721 forwards only the current message.
723 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
725 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
726 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
727 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
728 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
729 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
730 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
731 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
732 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
735 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
736 longer generate empty buffers
738 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
739 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
740 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
741 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
742 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
744 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
746 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
749 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
751 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
754 Address completion improvements
756 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
757 you previously configured one, customize the variable
758 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
759 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
760 interactive address completion.
762 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
764 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
765 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
766 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
771 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
772 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
773 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
779 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
780 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
781 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
782 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
783 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
784 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
786 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
787 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
788 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
789 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
790 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
791 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
793 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
794 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
796 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
797 =========================
802 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
805 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
807 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
808 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
809 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
811 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
812 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
814 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
815 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
816 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
818 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
820 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
821 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
822 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
823 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
824 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
825 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
830 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
831 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
834 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
837 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
839 Command Line Interface
840 ----------------------
842 Database revision tracking
844 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
845 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
846 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
847 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
849 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
851 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
852 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
853 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
854 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
855 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
856 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
857 manual page for further information.
862 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
864 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
865 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
867 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
869 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
870 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
871 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
873 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
875 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
877 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
878 customization as well.
880 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
882 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
884 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
886 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
888 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
889 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
890 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
891 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
893 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
895 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
896 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
897 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
898 this variable to 10000.
903 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
904 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
906 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
908 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
909 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
910 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
911 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
912 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
913 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
914 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
915 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
916 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
919 Database revision tracking
921 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
922 query parser and the new function
923 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
925 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
929 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
930 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
931 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
932 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
937 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
939 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
940 ===========================
945 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
947 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
948 ===========================
953 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
955 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
956 =========================
958 Command-Line Interface
959 ----------------------
961 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
963 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
964 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
965 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
967 Path to gpg is now configurable
969 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
970 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
975 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
977 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
982 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
987 Support messages without Message-IDs.
992 Undeprecate single message mboxes
994 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
995 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
997 New error logging facility
999 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1000 output formerly printed to stderr.
1002 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1004 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1006 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1008 Fix for rounding of seconds
1013 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1015 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1016 docmumentation has been removed.
1018 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1020 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1021 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1026 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1027 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1028 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1033 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1034 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1035 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1036 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1037 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1038 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1041 git checkout config origin/config
1043 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1045 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1046 =========================
1051 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1052 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1053 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1054 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1055 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1056 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1057 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1059 Command-Line Interface
1060 ----------------------
1062 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1064 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1065 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1066 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1067 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1068 script callers should still check the return value.
1070 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1072 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1073 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1074 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1075 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1076 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1077 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1078 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1080 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1082 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1083 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1084 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1086 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1088 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1089 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1090 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1091 currently unmaintained.
1093 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1095 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1096 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1097 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1098 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1100 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1102 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1103 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1104 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1105 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1106 count of duplicate addresses.
1111 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1113 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1114 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1115 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1118 Improved handling of the unread tag
1120 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1121 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1122 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1123 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1124 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1125 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1126 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1128 Expanded default saved search settings
1130 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1131 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1133 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1135 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1136 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1137 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1139 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1141 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1142 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1143 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1144 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1145 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1146 the variable for details.
1151 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1153 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1154 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1155 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1156 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1158 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1160 Previously, library users were required to call
1161 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1162 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1163 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1164 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1165 too out of date for that API.
1167 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1169 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1170 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1171 atomic section will be aborted.
1173 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1174 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1176 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1178 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1179 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1180 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1181 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1182 messages into the same thread.
1187 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1188 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1189 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1190 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1191 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1192 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1197 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1198 from the config file. Use something like:
1202 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1203 "footer": "</body></html>",
1212 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1217 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1218 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1219 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1221 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1222 ===========================
1227 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1229 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1231 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1233 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1234 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1236 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1238 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1241 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1242 ===========================
1244 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1249 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1251 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1253 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1255 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1257 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1263 Use --quick when starting emacs
1265 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1267 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1269 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1271 Command-Line Interface
1272 ----------------------
1274 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1275 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1280 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1282 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1283 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1285 Fix for phrase indexing
1287 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1288 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1289 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1294 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1296 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1297 unintentionally removed.
1299 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1300 =========================
1305 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1306 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1307 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1308 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1309 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1310 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1311 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1312 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1313 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1319 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1321 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1322 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1323 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1324 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1325 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1326 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1327 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1328 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1330 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1332 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1333 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1334 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1335 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1338 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1340 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1341 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1342 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1343 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1344 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1345 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1346 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1351 Notmuch database upgrade
1353 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1354 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1355 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1356 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1357 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1358 released version of Notmuch before now.
1360 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1362 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1363 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1364 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1365 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1367 Message header parsing changes
1369 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1370 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1371 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1372 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1373 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1374 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1376 Command-Line Interface
1377 ----------------------
1379 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1381 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1383 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1385 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1387 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1389 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1390 user does not want it.
1392 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1394 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1395 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
1396 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1397 support formatted output.
1399 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1401 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1402 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1403 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1411 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1412 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1413 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1414 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1415 `~/.emacs` with these.
1417 Changed format for saved searches
1419 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1420 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1421 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1422 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1425 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1426 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1427 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1428 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1430 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1431 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1432 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1434 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1435 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1436 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1437 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1438 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1440 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1442 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1443 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1444 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1446 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1448 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1449 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1450 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1451 message had been unread).
1453 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1454 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1455 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1456 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1458 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1459 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1460 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1462 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1463 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1464 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1465 to tags already present.
1469 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1470 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1471 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1472 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1473 these differ from each other.
1474 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1476 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1478 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1479 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1480 for these Emacs versions.
1482 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1484 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1485 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1487 Bug fixes for sender identities
1489 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1490 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1491 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1493 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1495 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1496 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1497 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1498 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1500 Reply pushes mark before signature
1502 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1503 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1504 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1506 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1508 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1509 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1515 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1516 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1518 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1519 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1520 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1521 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1523 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1524 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1525 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1526 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1527 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1529 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
1531 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1532 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1534 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1535 =========================
1537 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1538 ---------------------------------------
1540 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1541 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1542 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1543 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1544 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1545 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1546 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1550 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1551 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1553 Command-Line Interface
1554 ----------------------
1556 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1558 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1559 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1560 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1561 print for each message.
1563 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1564 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1565 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1566 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1568 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1570 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1571 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1572 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1574 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1576 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1577 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1578 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1579 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1581 `notmuch compact` command
1583 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1584 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1585 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1586 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1587 move the compacted database into place.
1592 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1594 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1595 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1596 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1597 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1598 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1599 and multiple threads.
1601 Using `notmuch-tree`
1603 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1605 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1606 search, show and tree mode itself)
1608 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1611 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1612 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1614 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1616 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1617 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1618 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1619 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1620 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1621 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1622 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1624 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1626 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1627 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1628 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1629 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1630 thread when the search was performed.
1632 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1634 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1635 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1636 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1638 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1640 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1641 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1644 Built-in help improvements
1646 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1647 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1648 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1650 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1652 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1653 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1654 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1656 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1658 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1659 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1661 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1663 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1664 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1665 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1666 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1668 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1670 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1671 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1672 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1673 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1675 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1677 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1678 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1679 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1681 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1683 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1684 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1685 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1687 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1689 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1690 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1691 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1692 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1693 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1695 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1697 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1698 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1699 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1700 the body part of the message.
1705 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1706 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1707 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1709 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1710 =========================
1712 Command-Line Interface
1713 ----------------------
1715 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1717 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1718 folder and notmuch index.
1720 `notmuch count --batch` option
1722 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1723 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1725 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1727 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1728 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1729 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1732 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1734 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1735 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1736 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1737 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1738 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1741 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1743 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1744 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1746 Top level option to specify configuration file
1748 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1749 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1751 Bash command-line completion
1753 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1754 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1755 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1756 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1757 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1758 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1759 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1760 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1761 bash-completion package.
1763 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1768 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1770 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1771 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1772 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1773 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1774 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1775 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1776 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1777 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1779 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1781 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1782 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1783 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1785 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1787 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1788 previous thread in the search results.
1790 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1792 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1793 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1795 Faster search and show
1797 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1798 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1799 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1800 threads should show faster.
1804 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1805 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1806 in question was now removed from this release.
1811 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1812 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1817 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1819 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1820 ===========================
1825 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1827 Internal test framework changes
1828 -------------------------------
1830 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1831 being unimplemented.
1833 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1834 ===========================
1836 Internal test framework changes
1837 -------------------------------
1839 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1840 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1842 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1843 =========================
1848 Date range search support
1850 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1851 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1852 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1853 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1854 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1857 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1859 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1860 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1861 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1862 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1863 but may be removed in a future release.
1865 Command-Line Interface
1866 ----------------------
1868 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1870 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1871 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1873 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1875 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1876 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1877 officially deprecated.
1879 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1881 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1882 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1883 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1885 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1887 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1888 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1891 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1892 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1893 dump/restore format.
1895 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1897 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1898 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1899 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1901 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1903 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1904 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1905 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1907 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1909 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1910 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1911 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1912 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1917 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1919 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1920 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1921 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1922 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1924 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1926 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1927 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1928 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1929 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1930 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1931 the behavior of this, see
1932 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1933 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1935 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1936 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1937 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1939 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1941 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1942 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1945 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1947 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1948 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1949 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1950 simply displayed in place of the message.
1952 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1954 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1955 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1957 Improved text/calendar content handling
1959 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1960 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1961 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1962 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1964 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1966 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1967 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1968 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1969 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1971 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1973 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1974 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1975 for HTML email containing images.
1977 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1979 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1981 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1983 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1986 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1988 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1989 the point where it was.
1991 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1993 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1994 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1995 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1996 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1997 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1999 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2001 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2002 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2003 thread instead of the message id.
2005 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2006 -----------------------------
2008 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2009 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2010 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2011 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2012 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2013 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2014 further details and installation.
2019 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2021 Internal test framework changes
2022 -------------------------------
2024 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2026 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2027 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2028 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2029 can result in buggy behavior.
2031 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2032 =========================
2037 Maildir tag synchronization
2039 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2040 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2041 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2042 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2043 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2044 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2047 Command-Line Interface
2048 ----------------------
2050 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2051 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2052 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2053 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2054 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2060 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2062 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2064 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2065 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2066 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2068 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2070 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2071 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2072 span multiple lines.
2074 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2076 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2077 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2078 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2079 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2080 inside the result or message.
2082 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2084 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2085 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2087 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2088 user-specified formatting
2090 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2091 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2092 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2093 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2094 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2096 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2097 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2099 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2100 ===========================
2105 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2106 compilation error for this contrib package.
2108 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2109 ===========================
2114 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2116 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2117 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2118 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2119 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2121 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2122 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2125 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2126 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2127 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2128 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2131 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2133 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2136 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2137 =========================
2139 Command-Line Interface
2140 ----------------------
2144 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2145 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2146 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2147 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2149 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2150 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2151 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2152 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2156 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2157 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2159 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2160 tag in your query, for example:
2162 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2164 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2165 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2167 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2168 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2170 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2172 Raw show format changes
2174 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2175 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2176 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2177 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2178 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2179 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2180 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2181 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2183 Listing configuration items
2185 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2191 Changes to tagging interface
2193 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2194 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2195 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2196 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2197 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2198 for more information.
2200 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2201 may need to update in custom configurations.
2203 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2205 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2206 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2207 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2208 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2211 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2212 -----------------------------
2214 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2215 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2216 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2217 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2218 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2219 contrib/ from now on.
2224 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2225 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2227 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2228 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2230 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2231 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2232 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2234 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2235 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2237 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2238 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2239 returning the new database object or directory object.
2246 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2247 compatible with go 1.
2249 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2250 =========================
2252 Command-Line Interface
2253 ----------------------
2257 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2258 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2259 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2260 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2262 Mail store folder/file ignore
2264 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2265 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2266 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2268 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2269 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2271 Unified help and manual pages
2273 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2274 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2277 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2279 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2280 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2288 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2289 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2290 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2291 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2293 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2295 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2296 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2298 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2301 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2302 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2303 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2305 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2307 should be changed to:
2309 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2311 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2313 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2314 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2316 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2318 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2319 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2320 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2321 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2322 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2323 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2327 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2328 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2329 of Mailing List Archives.
2331 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2333 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2334 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2337 Show view archiving key binding changes
2339 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2340 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2341 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2342 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2343 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2346 Support text/calendar MIME type
2348 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2351 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2353 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2354 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2355 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2356 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2358 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2360 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2361 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2362 messages blue by default in the search view.
2366 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2367 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2374 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2377 Python bindings changes
2378 -----------------------
2380 Python 3.2 compatibility
2382 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2384 Added missing unicode conversions
2386 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2387 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2388 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2393 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2395 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2396 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2397 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2398 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2399 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2401 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2402 ===========================
2407 Fix error handling in python bindings
2409 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2410 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2411 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2412 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2414 Quote MML tags in replies
2416 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2417 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2418 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2419 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2420 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2421 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2422 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2423 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2425 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2426 =========================
2428 Command-Line Interface
2429 ----------------------
2433 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2434 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2435 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2436 importing new messages into the database.
2438 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2440 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2441 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2442 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2447 Automatic tag query optimization
2449 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2450 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2451 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2453 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2455 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2456 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2457 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2462 Reduction of memory leaks
2464 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2465 and fixed in this release.
2472 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2473 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2474 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2477 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2479 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2480 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2481 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2484 Improvements in saved search management
2486 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2487 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2488 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2490 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2492 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2493 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2494 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2496 New face for crypto parts headers
2498 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2499 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2500 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2503 Use space as default thousands separator
2505 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2506 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2507 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2509 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2510 buttonized id: links
2512 New function notmuch-show-advance
2514 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2515 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2516 be bound to SPC with:
2518 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2520 Various performance improvements
2525 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2526 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2529 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2530 ===========================
2535 Fix crash in python bindings
2537 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2538 for some, but not all users.
2540 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2541 ===========================
2546 Fix `--help` argument
2548 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2549 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2550 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2552 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2553 =========================
2555 New build and testing features
2556 ------------------------------
2558 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2559 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2560 prerequisites is improved.
2562 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2564 New command-line features
2565 -------------------------
2567 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2569 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2570 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2573 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2575 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2576 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2577 favour of using stdout.
2579 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2581 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2582 limit the number of results shown.
2584 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2586 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2587 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2590 New emacs UI features
2591 ---------------------
2593 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2595 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2596 starting with "tag:".
2598 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2600 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2601 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2603 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2605 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2607 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2609 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2610 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2615 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2617 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2619 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2620 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2621 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2622 requires a database rebuild:
2624 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2625 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2627 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2629 New collection of add-on tools
2630 ------------------------------
2632 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2633 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2634 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2637 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2639 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2640 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
2641 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2643 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2644 ========================
2646 New, general features
2647 ---------------------
2649 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2651 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2652 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2653 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2654 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2655 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2662 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2663 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2665 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2669 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2670 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2671 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2674 Python bindings changes
2675 -----------------------
2677 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2679 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2680 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2681 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2682 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2683 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2684 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2686 Ruby bindings changes
2687 ---------------------
2689 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2690 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2691 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2692 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2697 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2699 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2700 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2702 Reply formatting cleanup
2703 ------------------------
2705 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2706 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2708 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2709 ========================
2711 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2713 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2714 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2715 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2716 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2719 Improved Build system portability
2721 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2722 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2723 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2725 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2727 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2729 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2731 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2732 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2733 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2735 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2736 ========================
2738 Vim interface improvements
2739 --------------------------
2741 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2743 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2744 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2745 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2746 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2747 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2749 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2751 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2752 * fix compose temp file name
2754 Python Bindings changes
2755 -----------------------
2757 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2759 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2760 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2762 Build-System improvements
2763 -------------------------
2765 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2767 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2770 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2771 ==========================
2776 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2778 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2779 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2781 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2782 =======================
2784 New, general features
2785 ---------------------
2787 Folder-based searching
2789 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2790 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2791 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2795 For example, one might use things such as:
2801 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2802 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2804 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2805 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2806 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2807 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2809 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2810 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2811 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2814 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2815 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2817 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2819 Support for PGP/MIME
2821 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2822 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2823 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2825 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2827 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2828 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2830 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2831 notmuch will receive these tags.
2833 New command-line features
2834 -------------------------
2836 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2838 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2839 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2841 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2843 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2844 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2845 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2847 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2849 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2850 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2851 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2852 which parts a signature part applies).
2854 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2856 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2857 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2858 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2859 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2860 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2863 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2865 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2866 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2867 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2868 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2869 by translating it internally to the new call.
2871 Performance improvements
2872 ------------------------
2874 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2876 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2877 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2878 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2880 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2881 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2883 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2885 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2886 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2887 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2889 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2890 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2891 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2892 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2894 Faster initial indexing
2896 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2897 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2898 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2900 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2902 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2903 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2904 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2905 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2907 New emacs-interface features
2908 ----------------------------
2910 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2912 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2913 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2914 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2915 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2916 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2917 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2919 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2921 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2922 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2923 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2924 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2926 User-selectable From address
2928 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2929 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2930 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2931 will prompt for the from address to use.
2933 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2934 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2935 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2937 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2938 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2939 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2942 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2944 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2945 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2947 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2949 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2951 ----- Original Message -----
2953 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2954 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2955 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2956 citations work much like conventional citations.
2958 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2960 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2961 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2962 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2963 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2964 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2966 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2967 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2969 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2971 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2972 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2973 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2975 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2977 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2978 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2979 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2980 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2981 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2983 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2985 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2988 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2990 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2992 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2994 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2997 Vim interface improvements
2998 --------------------------
3000 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3002 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3003 * Implementing archive in show view
3004 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3005 * Add delete commands
3008 Bindings improvements
3009 ---------------------
3011 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3013 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3014 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3016 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3018 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3022 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3023 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3024 `list(Messages)` works now
3025 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3027 These allow, for example:
3029 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3031 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3033 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3039 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3041 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3044 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3046 New build-system features
3047 -------------------------
3049 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3051 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3052 the configure script from some other directory:
3059 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3061 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3062 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3063 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3064 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3065 manual invocation of configure.
3067 New test-suite feature
3068 ----------------------
3070 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3072 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3073 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3074 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3075 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3076 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3079 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3081 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3082 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3083 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3084 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3085 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3086 are updated to take advantage of this.
3088 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3090 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3091 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3092 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3093 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3099 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3101 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3102 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3103 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3105 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3107 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3109 to:user@elsewhere.com
3111 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3113 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3115 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3117 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3118 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3119 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3122 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3123 from the Received headers in some cases
3125 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3126 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3128 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3130 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3132 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3134 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3135 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3136 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3138 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3139 -------------------------
3141 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3143 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3144 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3145 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3147 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3149 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3150 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3151 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3154 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3156 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3157 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3158 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3159 fixed to avoid this bug.
3161 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3163 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3164 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3166 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3167 ========================
3169 New, general features
3170 ---------------------
3172 Maildir-flag synchronization
3174 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3175 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3184 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3186 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3187 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3188 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3189 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3191 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3192 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3193 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3194 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3197 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3199 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3200 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3201 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3203 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3204 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3206 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3207 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3209 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3210 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3211 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3213 New library features
3214 --------------------
3216 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3218 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3219 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3220 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3221 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3223 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3224 message with the new function:
3226 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3228 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3229 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3230 over all available filenames for a given message.
3232 New command-line features
3233 -------------------------
3235 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3237 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3238 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3239 access to the mail store itself.
3241 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3242 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3243 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3244 name of a script containing:
3246 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3248 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3249 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3255 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3257 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3259 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3261 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3262 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3263 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3264 now produces nothing).
3266 Emacs interface improvements
3267 ----------------------------
3269 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3271 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3273 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3275 Display current thread subject in a header line
3277 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3279 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3281 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3282 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3283 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3284 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3285 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3286 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3287 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3289 Vim interface improvements
3290 --------------------------
3292 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3294 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3295 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3301 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3303 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3304 ========================
3306 New command-line features
3307 -------------------------
3309 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3311 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3312 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3313 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3315 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3316 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3317 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3318 scripts. For example:
3320 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3321 <operations-on> "$file"
3324 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3326 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3327 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3328 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3329 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3330 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3331 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3333 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3335 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3336 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3337 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3338 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3340 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3342 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3343 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3344 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3345 default rather than Bcc.
3347 New library features
3348 --------------------
3350 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3352 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3353 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3358 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3360 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3361 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3362 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3363 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3364 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3365 notmuch customize interface.
3367 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3369 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3370 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3371 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3372 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3374 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3376 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3377 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3378 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3379 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3381 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3383 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3384 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3385 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3386 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3387 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3388 notmuch customize interface.
3390 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3392 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3393 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3394 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3395 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3396 notmuch customize interface.
3398 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3400 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3401 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3402 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3403 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3406 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3408 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3409 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3410 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3413 New build-system features
3414 -------------------------
3416 Various portability fixes have been applied
3418 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3419 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3420 more portable than ever before.
3422 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3424 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3425 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3426 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3428 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3429 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3430 automatically run ldconfig.
3432 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3433 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3434 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3436 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3437 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3438 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3439 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3441 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3443 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3444 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3445 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3446 used in the resulting Makefile.
3448 New test-suite features
3449 -----------------------
3451 New modularization of test suite
3453 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3454 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3455 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3456 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3457 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3458 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3459 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3460 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3462 New testing of emacs interface
3464 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3465 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3466 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3467 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3468 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3469 database via the FCC setting.
3474 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3476 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3477 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3478 persistent error of the form:
3480 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3482 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3483 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3485 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3487 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3488 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3489 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3491 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3493 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3494 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3495 parsing the notmuch results).
3497 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3499 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3502 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3503 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3504 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3509 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3511 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3512 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3513 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3514 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3515 the emacs interface.
3517 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3519 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3520 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3521 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3523 Python-binding fixes
3524 --------------------
3526 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3528 Debian-specific fixes
3529 ---------------------
3531 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3533 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3534 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3535 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3538 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3539 ==========================
3544 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3546 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3547 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3548 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3549 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3551 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3553 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3554 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3555 want notmuch to crash.
3560 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3562 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3563 directory does not exist
3568 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3570 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3571 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3573 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3574 ========================
3576 New command-line features
3577 -------------------------
3579 User-configurable tags for new messages
3581 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3582 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3583 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3584 to specify this value.
3586 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3588 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3589 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3590 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3592 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3594 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3595 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3597 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3599 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3600 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3601 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3602 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3603 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3606 Indication of author names that match a search
3608 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3609 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3610 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3611 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3612 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3613 messages in the thread are listed first.
3615 New: Python bindings
3616 --------------------
3618 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3619 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3620 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3621 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3623 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3624 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3625 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3628 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3629 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3630 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3632 Emacs interface improvements
3633 ----------------------------
3635 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3637 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3638 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3639 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3640 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3641 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3642 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3643 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3644 but without any of the disadvantages).
3646 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3647 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3648 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3651 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3652 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3653 instead running something like:
3655 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3657 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3658 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3659 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3662 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3664 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3665 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3666 tweaked by the user.
3668 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3669 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3670 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3673 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3674 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3675 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3678 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3680 This support currently relies on an external program,
3681 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3682 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3683 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3684 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3685 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3688 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3689 notmuch) is available via:
3691 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3693 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3694 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3695 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3697 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3699 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3700 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3701 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3702 making this automatic in a future release.
3704 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3706 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3707 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3708 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3709 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3710 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3711 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3714 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3716 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3717 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3718 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3720 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3722 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3723 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3724 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3726 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3727 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3728 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3729 other representation.
3731 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3732 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3735 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3737 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3738 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3739 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3741 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3742 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3743 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3745 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3747 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3748 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3749 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3750 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3751 to display the search result.
3753 More flexible handling of header visibility
3755 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3756 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3757 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3758 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3759 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3760 with the 'h' keybinding.
3762 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3763 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3764 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3766 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3768 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3770 Customizable formatting of search results
3772 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3773 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3774 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3776 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3778 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3780 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3785 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3787 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3788 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3789 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3790 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3796 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3798 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3799 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3801 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3803 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3804 accept are now all accepted.
3809 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3811 Better display of output from failed tests
3813 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3814 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3816 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3817 ========================
3819 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3820 detailed release notes this time!
3822 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3823 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3825 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3826 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3827 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3828 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3835 Better guessing of From: header
3837 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3838 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3839 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3840 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3841 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3844 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3846 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3847 guaranteed to match all messages.
3849 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3851 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3852 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3853 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3854 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3855 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3858 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3861 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3862 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3863 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3864 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3869 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3871 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3872 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3873 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3874 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3876 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3878 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3880 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3881 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3882 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3884 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3886 Previously, the user might see:
3888 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3892 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3894 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3895 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3896 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3897 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3899 Emacs client features
3900 ---------------------
3902 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3904 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3905 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3906 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3907 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3908 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3910 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3913 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3914 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3915 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3916 search with the '*' binding.
3918 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3920 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3921 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3924 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3926 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3927 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3928 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3930 Build-system features
3931 ---------------------
3933 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3935 Add support to configure for many standard options
3937 We include actual support for:
3939 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3941 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3943 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3944 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3946 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3947 separate "make install-emacs"
3949 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3951 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3952 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3953 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3955 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3958 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3959 ========================
3961 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3963 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3964 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3966 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3967 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3968 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3969 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3970 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3971 tags from messages in a thread.
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