1 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
2 =========================
9 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
10 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
11 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
12 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
13 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
16 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
18 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
19 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
20 correct encoding for such messages.
22 Command Line Interface
23 ----------------------
25 Support relative database paths
27 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
28 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
29 to $HOME of the invoking user.
34 Improve stderr handling
36 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
39 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
41 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
46 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
47 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
53 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
54 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
60 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
61 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
64 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
65 =========================
70 Add support for thread:{} queries
72 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
73 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
74 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
76 Command Line Interface
77 ----------------------
79 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
81 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
83 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
85 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
86 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
87 does not have to be available during message receipt.
92 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
98 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
99 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
101 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
102 ===========================
107 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
109 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
110 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
111 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
113 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
115 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
116 related abort in `notmuch show`.
118 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
119 ===========================
124 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
125 better late than never.
128 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
129 =========================
131 Command Line Interface
132 ----------------------
134 Support for re-indexing existing messages
136 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
137 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
138 change the way specific messages are indexed.
140 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
141 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
142 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
144 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
146 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
148 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
150 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
151 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
152 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
153 the setting of `new.tags`.
155 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
157 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
159 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
161 This inserts into the top level folder.
163 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
165 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
167 New option --output=address for notmuch address
169 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
171 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
173 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
174 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
175 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
177 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
182 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
184 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
185 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
186 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
187 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
188 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
189 config set index.decrypt true".
191 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
192 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
193 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
194 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
195 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
196 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
197 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
198 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
200 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
201 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
202 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
203 this feature without considering the security of your index.
208 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
210 Use make-process when available
212 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
213 notmuch command without using temporary files.
218 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
220 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
221 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
222 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
223 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
225 New functions to count files
227 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
228 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
230 New function to remove properties
232 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
233 drop all properties with a common pattern:
234 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
236 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
238 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
239 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
240 possibility of NULL was not documented.
242 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
244 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
245 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
246 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
247 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
248 operator may decide to change from message to message.
255 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
256 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
257 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
263 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
265 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
266 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
268 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
270 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
272 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
274 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
279 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
280 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
282 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
283 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
284 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
285 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
286 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
287 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
292 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
294 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
295 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
296 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
297 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
299 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
300 ===========================
305 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
306 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
309 Command Line Interface
310 ----------------------
312 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
313 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
316 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
317 ===========================
319 Command Line Interface
320 ----------------------
322 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
323 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
328 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
331 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
332 ===========================
337 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
340 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
341 =========================
346 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
348 Skip HTML tags when indexing
350 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
352 Command Line Interface
353 ----------------------
355 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
357 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
362 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
364 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
365 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
368 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
373 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
375 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
376 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
378 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
380 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
381 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
384 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
386 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
388 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
390 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
391 ===========================
393 Command Line Interface
394 ----------------------
396 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
401 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
403 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
404 ===========================
409 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
411 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
412 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
415 Command Line Interface
416 ----------------------
418 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
420 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
422 Fix bug in dump header
424 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
425 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
426 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
431 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
433 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
434 =========================
439 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
441 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
444 Command Line Interface
445 ----------------------
447 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
449 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
450 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
451 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
453 New default output format to 3
455 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
456 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
457 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
458 default format changes.
463 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
465 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
466 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
467 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
468 or tree view to resume.
470 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
471 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
472 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
475 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
476 they were when you postponed in the final message.
480 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
481 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
482 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
483 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
484 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
488 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
489 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
490 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
491 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
492 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
493 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
497 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
498 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
500 Stop display of `application/*` parts
502 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
503 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
504 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
505 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
506 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
507 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
508 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
509 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
512 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
514 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
515 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
516 only tagged the current thread.)
518 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
520 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
521 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
522 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
524 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
526 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
527 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
528 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
529 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
530 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
531 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
532 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
534 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
536 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
537 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
538 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
543 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
545 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
548 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
550 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
553 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
554 ===========================
559 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
561 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
562 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
563 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
566 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
567 ===========================
569 Command Line Interface
570 ----------------------
572 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
577 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
579 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
580 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
581 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
583 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
584 ===========================
589 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
590 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
592 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
593 ===========================
595 Command Line Interface
596 ----------------------
598 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
600 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
601 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
602 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
607 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
609 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
610 ===========================
612 Command Line Interface
613 ----------------------
615 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
620 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
622 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
623 ===========================
628 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
630 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
631 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
632 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
634 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
636 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
638 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
639 ===========================
644 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
646 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
651 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
653 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
654 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
655 the original colours.
657 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
658 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
660 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
662 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
663 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
664 bug, and hence the test.
666 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
667 =========================
669 General (Xapian 1.4+)
670 ---------------------
672 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
674 Support for single argument date: queries
676 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
678 Support for blocking opens
680 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
681 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
683 Support for named queries
685 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
686 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
687 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
694 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
695 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
696 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
697 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
699 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
701 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
706 Support for compile time options
708 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
709 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
712 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
714 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
715 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
716 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
717 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
718 scripts to ignore it.
723 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
725 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
726 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
727 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
729 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
730 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
731 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
732 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
733 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
734 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
735 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
737 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
738 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
741 Make internal address completion customizable
743 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
744 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
745 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
746 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
749 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
751 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
752 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
753 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
754 completion for the current buffer.
756 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
757 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
758 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
762 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
763 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
764 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
765 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
766 will be added instead.
768 Face customization is easier
770 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
771 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
772 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
773 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
775 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
780 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
785 Go bindings moved to contrib
787 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
789 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
791 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
792 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
794 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
796 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
797 ===========================
804 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
805 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
807 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
809 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
811 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
812 ===========================
817 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
819 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
824 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
829 Use `env` to locate perl.
834 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
836 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
838 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
840 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
842 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
843 =========================
850 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
851 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
853 Limited support for S/MIME messages
855 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
856 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
857 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
862 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
863 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
864 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
866 Command Line Interface
867 ----------------------
869 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
871 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
876 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
881 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
883 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
884 parts are now included in replies.
886 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
887 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
888 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
889 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
891 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
893 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
895 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
897 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
898 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
899 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
900 forwards only the current message.
902 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
904 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
905 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
906 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
907 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
908 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
909 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
910 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
911 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
914 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
915 longer generate empty buffers
917 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
918 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
919 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
920 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
921 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
923 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
925 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
928 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
930 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
933 Address completion improvements
935 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
936 you previously configured one, customize the variable
937 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
938 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
939 interactive address completion.
941 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
943 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
944 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
945 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
950 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
951 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
952 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
958 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
959 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
960 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
961 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
962 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
963 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
965 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
966 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
967 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
968 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
969 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
970 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
972 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
973 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
975 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
976 =========================
981 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
984 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
986 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
987 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
988 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
990 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
991 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
993 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
994 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
995 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
997 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
999 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1000 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1001 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1002 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1003 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1004 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1009 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1010 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1013 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1014 option to configure.
1016 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1018 Command Line Interface
1019 ----------------------
1021 Database revision tracking
1023 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1024 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1025 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1026 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1028 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1030 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1031 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1032 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1033 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1034 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1035 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1036 manual page for further information.
1041 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1043 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1044 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1046 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1048 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1049 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1050 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1052 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1054 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1056 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1057 customization as well.
1059 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1061 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1063 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1065 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1067 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1068 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1069 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1070 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1072 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1074 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1075 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1076 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1077 this variable to 10000.
1082 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1083 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1085 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1087 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1088 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1089 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1090 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1091 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1092 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1093 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1094 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1095 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1098 Database revision tracking
1100 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1101 query parser and the new function
1102 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1104 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1106 Deprecated functions
1108 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1109 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1110 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1111 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1116 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1118 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1119 ===========================
1124 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1126 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1127 ===========================
1132 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1134 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1135 =========================
1137 Command-Line Interface
1138 ----------------------
1140 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1142 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1143 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1144 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1146 Path to gpg is now configurable
1148 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1149 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1154 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1156 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1161 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1166 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1171 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1173 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1174 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1176 New error logging facility
1178 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1179 output formerly printed to stderr.
1181 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1183 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1185 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1187 Fix for rounding of seconds
1192 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1194 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1195 documentation has been removed.
1197 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1199 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1200 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1205 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1206 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1207 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1212 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1213 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1214 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1215 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1216 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1217 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1220 git checkout config origin/config
1222 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1224 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1225 =========================
1230 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1231 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1232 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1233 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1234 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1235 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1236 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1238 Command-Line Interface
1239 ----------------------
1241 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1243 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1244 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1245 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1246 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1247 script callers should still check the return value.
1249 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1251 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1252 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1253 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1254 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1255 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1256 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1257 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1259 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1261 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1262 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1263 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1265 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1267 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1268 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1269 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1270 currently unmaintained.
1272 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1274 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1275 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1276 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1277 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1279 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1281 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1282 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1283 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1284 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1285 count of duplicate addresses.
1290 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1292 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1293 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1294 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1297 Improved handling of the unread tag
1299 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1300 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1301 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1302 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1303 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1304 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1305 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1307 Expanded default saved search settings
1309 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1310 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1312 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1314 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1315 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1316 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1318 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1320 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1321 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1322 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1323 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1324 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1325 the variable for details.
1330 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1332 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1333 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1334 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1335 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1337 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1339 Previously, library users were required to call
1340 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1341 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1342 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1343 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1344 too out of date for that API.
1346 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1348 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1349 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1350 atomic section will be aborted.
1352 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1353 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1355 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1357 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1358 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1359 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1360 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1361 messages into the same thread.
1366 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1367 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1368 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1369 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1370 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1371 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1376 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1377 from the config file. Use something like:
1381 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1382 "footer": "</body></html>",
1391 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1396 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1397 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1398 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1400 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1401 ===========================
1406 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1408 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1410 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1412 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1413 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1415 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1417 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1420 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1421 ===========================
1423 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1428 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1430 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1432 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1434 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1436 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1442 Use --quick when starting emacs
1444 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1446 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1448 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1450 Command-Line Interface
1451 ----------------------
1453 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1454 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1459 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1461 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1462 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1464 Fix for phrase indexing
1466 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1467 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1468 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1473 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1475 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1476 unintentionally removed.
1478 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1479 =========================
1484 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1485 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1486 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1487 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1488 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1489 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1490 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1491 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1492 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1498 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1500 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1501 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1502 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1503 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1504 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1505 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1506 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1507 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1509 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1511 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1512 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1513 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1514 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1517 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1519 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1520 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1521 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1522 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1523 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1524 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1525 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1530 Notmuch database upgrade
1532 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1533 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1534 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1535 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1536 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1537 released version of Notmuch before now.
1539 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1541 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1542 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1543 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1544 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1546 Message header parsing changes
1548 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1549 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1550 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1551 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1552 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1553 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1555 Command-Line Interface
1556 ----------------------
1558 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1560 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1562 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1564 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1566 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1568 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1569 user does not want it.
1571 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1573 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1574 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
1575 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1576 support formatted output.
1578 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1580 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1581 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1582 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1590 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1591 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1592 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1593 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1594 `~/.emacs` with these.
1596 Changed format for saved searches
1598 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1599 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1600 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1601 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1604 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1605 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1606 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1607 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1609 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1610 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1611 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1613 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1614 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1615 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1616 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1617 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1619 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1621 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1622 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1623 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1625 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1627 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1628 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1629 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1630 message had been unread).
1632 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1633 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1634 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1635 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1637 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1638 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1639 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1641 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1642 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1643 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1644 to tags already present.
1648 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1649 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1650 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1651 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1652 these differ from each other.
1653 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1655 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1657 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1658 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1659 for these Emacs versions.
1661 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1663 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1664 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1666 Bug fixes for sender identities
1668 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1669 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1670 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1672 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1674 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1675 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1676 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1677 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1679 Reply pushes mark before signature
1681 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1682 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1683 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1685 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1687 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1688 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1694 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1695 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1697 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1698 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1699 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1700 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1702 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1703 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1704 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1705 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1706 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1708 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
1710 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1711 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1713 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1714 =========================
1716 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1717 ---------------------------------------
1719 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1720 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1721 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1722 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1723 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1724 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1725 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1729 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1730 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1732 Command-Line Interface
1733 ----------------------
1735 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1737 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1738 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1739 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1740 print for each message.
1742 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1743 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1744 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1745 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1747 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1749 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1750 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1751 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1753 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1755 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1756 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1757 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1758 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1760 `notmuch compact` command
1762 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1763 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1764 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1765 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1766 move the compacted database into place.
1771 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1773 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1774 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1775 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1776 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1777 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1778 and multiple threads.
1780 Using `notmuch-tree`
1782 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1784 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1785 search, show and tree mode itself)
1787 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1790 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1791 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1793 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1795 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1796 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1797 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1798 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1799 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1800 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1801 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1803 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1805 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1806 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1807 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1808 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1809 thread when the search was performed.
1811 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1813 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1814 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1815 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1817 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1819 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1820 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1823 Built-in help improvements
1825 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1826 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1827 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1829 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1831 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1832 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1833 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1835 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1837 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1838 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1840 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1842 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1843 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1844 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1845 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1847 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1849 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1850 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1851 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1852 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1854 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1856 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1857 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1858 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1860 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1862 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1863 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1864 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1866 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1868 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1869 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1870 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1871 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1872 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1874 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1876 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1877 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1878 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1879 the body part of the message.
1884 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1885 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1886 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1888 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1889 =========================
1891 Command-Line Interface
1892 ----------------------
1894 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1896 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1897 folder and notmuch index.
1899 `notmuch count --batch` option
1901 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1902 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1904 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1906 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1907 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1908 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1911 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1913 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1914 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1915 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1916 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1917 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1920 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1922 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1923 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1925 Top level option to specify configuration file
1927 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1928 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1930 Bash command-line completion
1932 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1933 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1934 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1935 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1936 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1937 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1938 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1939 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1940 bash-completion package.
1942 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1947 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1949 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1950 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1951 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1952 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1953 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1954 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1955 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1956 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1958 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1960 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1961 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1962 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1964 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1966 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1967 previous thread in the search results.
1969 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1971 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1972 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1974 Faster search and show
1976 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1977 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1978 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1979 threads should show faster.
1983 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1984 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1985 in question was now removed from this release.
1990 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1991 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1996 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1998 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1999 ===========================
2004 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2006 Internal test framework changes
2007 -------------------------------
2009 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2010 being unimplemented.
2012 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2013 ===========================
2015 Internal test framework changes
2016 -------------------------------
2018 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2019 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2021 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2022 =========================
2027 Date range search support
2029 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2030 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2031 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2032 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2033 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2036 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2038 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2039 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2040 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2041 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2042 but may be removed in a future release.
2044 Command-Line Interface
2045 ----------------------
2047 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2049 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2050 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2052 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2054 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2055 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2056 officially deprecated.
2058 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2060 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2061 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2062 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2064 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2066 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2067 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2070 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2071 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2072 dump/restore format.
2074 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2076 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2077 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2078 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2080 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2082 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2083 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2084 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2086 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2088 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2089 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2090 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2091 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2096 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2098 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2099 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2100 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2101 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2103 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2105 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2106 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2107 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2108 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2109 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2110 the behavior of this, see
2111 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2112 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2114 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2115 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2116 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2118 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2120 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2121 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2124 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2126 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2127 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2128 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2129 simply displayed in place of the message.
2131 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2133 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2134 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2136 Improved text/calendar content handling
2138 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2139 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2140 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2141 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2143 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2145 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2146 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2147 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2148 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2150 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2152 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2153 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2154 for HTML email containing images.
2156 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2158 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2160 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2162 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2165 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2167 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2168 the point where it was.
2170 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2172 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2173 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2174 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2175 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2176 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2178 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2180 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2181 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2182 thread instead of the message id.
2184 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2185 -----------------------------
2187 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2188 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2189 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2190 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2191 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2192 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2193 further details and installation.
2198 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2200 Internal test framework changes
2201 -------------------------------
2203 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2205 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2206 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2207 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2208 can result in buggy behavior.
2210 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2211 =========================
2216 Maildir tag synchronization
2218 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2219 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2220 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2221 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2222 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2223 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2226 Command-Line Interface
2227 ----------------------
2229 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2230 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2231 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2232 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2233 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2239 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2241 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2243 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2244 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2245 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2247 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2249 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2250 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2251 span multiple lines.
2253 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2255 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2256 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2257 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2258 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2259 inside the result or message.
2261 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2263 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2264 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2266 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2267 user-specified formatting
2269 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2270 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2271 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2272 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2273 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2275 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2276 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2278 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2279 ===========================
2284 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2285 compilation error for this contrib package.
2287 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2288 ===========================
2293 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2295 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2296 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2297 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2298 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2300 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2301 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2304 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2305 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2306 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2307 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2310 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2312 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2315 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2316 =========================
2318 Command-Line Interface
2319 ----------------------
2323 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2324 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2325 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2326 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2328 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2329 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2330 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2331 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2335 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2336 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2338 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2339 tag in your query, for example:
2341 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2343 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2344 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2346 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2347 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2349 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2351 Raw show format changes
2353 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2354 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2355 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2356 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2357 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2358 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2359 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2360 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2362 Listing configuration items
2364 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2370 Changes to tagging interface
2372 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2373 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2374 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2375 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2376 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2377 for more information.
2379 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2380 may need to update in custom configurations.
2382 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2384 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2385 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2386 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2387 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2390 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2391 -----------------------------
2393 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2394 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2395 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2396 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2397 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2398 contrib/ from now on.
2403 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2404 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2406 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2407 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2409 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2410 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2411 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2413 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2414 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2416 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2417 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2418 returning the new database object or directory object.
2425 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2426 compatible with go 1.
2428 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2429 =========================
2431 Command-Line Interface
2432 ----------------------
2436 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2437 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2438 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2439 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2441 Mail store folder/file ignore
2443 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2444 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2445 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2447 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2448 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2450 Unified help and manual pages
2452 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2453 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2456 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2458 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2459 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2467 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2468 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2469 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2470 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2472 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2474 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2475 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2477 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2480 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2481 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2482 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2484 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2486 should be changed to:
2488 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2490 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2492 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2493 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2495 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2497 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2498 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2499 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2500 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2501 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2502 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2506 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2507 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2508 of Mailing List Archives.
2510 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2512 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2513 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2516 Show view archiving key binding changes
2518 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2519 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2520 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2521 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2522 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2525 Support text/calendar MIME type
2527 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2530 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2532 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2533 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2534 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2535 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2537 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2539 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2540 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2541 messages blue by default in the search view.
2545 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2546 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2553 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2556 Python bindings changes
2557 -----------------------
2559 Python 3.2 compatibility
2561 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2563 Added missing unicode conversions
2565 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2566 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2567 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2572 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2574 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2575 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2576 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2577 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2578 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2580 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2581 ===========================
2586 Fix error handling in python bindings
2588 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2589 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2590 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2591 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2593 Quote MML tags in replies
2595 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2596 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2597 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2598 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2599 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2600 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2601 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2602 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2604 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2605 =========================
2607 Command-Line Interface
2608 ----------------------
2612 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2613 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2614 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2615 importing new messages into the database.
2617 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2619 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2620 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2621 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2626 Automatic tag query optimization
2628 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2629 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2630 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2632 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2634 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2635 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2636 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2641 Reduction of memory leaks
2643 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2644 and fixed in this release.
2651 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2652 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2653 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2656 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2658 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2659 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2660 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2663 Improvements in saved search management
2665 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2666 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2667 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2669 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2671 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2672 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2673 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2675 New face for crypto parts headers
2677 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2678 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2679 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2682 Use space as default thousands separator
2684 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2685 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2686 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2688 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2689 buttonized id: links
2691 New function notmuch-show-advance
2693 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2694 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2695 be bound to SPC with:
2697 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2699 Various performance improvements
2704 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2705 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2708 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2709 ===========================
2714 Fix crash in python bindings
2716 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2717 for some, but not all users.
2719 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2720 ===========================
2725 Fix `--help` argument
2727 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2728 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2729 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2731 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2732 =========================
2734 New build and testing features
2735 ------------------------------
2737 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2738 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2739 prerequisites is improved.
2741 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2743 New command-line features
2744 -------------------------
2746 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2748 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2749 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2752 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2754 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2755 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2756 favour of using stdout.
2758 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2760 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2761 limit the number of results shown.
2763 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2765 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2766 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2769 New emacs UI features
2770 ---------------------
2772 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2774 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2775 starting with "tag:".
2777 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2779 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2780 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2782 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2784 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2786 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2788 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2789 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2794 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2796 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2798 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2799 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2800 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2801 requires a database rebuild:
2803 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2804 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2806 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2808 New collection of add-on tools
2809 ------------------------------
2811 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2812 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2813 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2816 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2818 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2819 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
2820 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2822 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2823 ========================
2825 New, general features
2826 ---------------------
2828 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2830 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2831 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2832 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2833 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2834 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2841 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2842 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2844 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2848 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2849 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2850 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2853 Python bindings changes
2854 -----------------------
2856 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2858 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2859 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2860 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2861 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2862 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2863 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2865 Ruby bindings changes
2866 ---------------------
2868 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2869 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2870 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2871 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2876 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2878 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2879 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2881 Reply formatting cleanup
2882 ------------------------
2884 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2885 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2887 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2888 ========================
2890 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2892 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2893 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2894 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2895 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2898 Improved Build system portability
2900 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2901 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2902 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2904 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2906 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2908 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2910 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2911 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2912 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2914 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2915 ========================
2917 Vim interface improvements
2918 --------------------------
2920 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2922 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2923 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2924 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2925 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2926 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2928 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2930 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2931 * fix compose temp file name
2933 Python Bindings changes
2934 -----------------------
2936 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2938 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2939 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2941 Build-System improvements
2942 -------------------------
2944 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2946 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2949 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2950 ==========================
2955 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2957 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2958 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2960 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2961 =======================
2963 New, general features
2964 ---------------------
2966 Folder-based searching
2968 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2969 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2970 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2974 For example, one might use things such as:
2980 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2981 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2983 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2984 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2985 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2986 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2988 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2989 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2990 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2993 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2994 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2996 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2998 Support for PGP/MIME
3000 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3001 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3002 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3004 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3006 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3007 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3009 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3010 notmuch will receive these tags.
3012 New command-line features
3013 -------------------------
3015 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3017 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3018 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3020 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3022 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3023 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3024 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3026 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3028 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3029 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3030 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3031 which parts a signature part applies).
3033 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3035 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3036 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3037 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3038 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3039 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3042 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3044 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3045 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3046 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3047 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3048 by translating it internally to the new call.
3050 Performance improvements
3051 ------------------------
3053 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3055 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3056 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3057 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3059 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3060 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3062 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3064 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3065 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3066 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3068 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3069 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3070 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3071 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3073 Faster initial indexing
3075 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3076 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3077 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3079 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3081 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3082 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3083 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3084 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3086 New emacs-interface features
3087 ----------------------------
3089 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3091 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3092 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3093 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3094 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3095 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3096 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3098 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3100 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3101 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3102 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3103 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3105 User-selectable From address
3107 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3108 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3109 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3110 will prompt for the from address to use.
3112 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3113 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3114 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3116 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3117 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3118 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3121 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3123 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3124 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3126 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3128 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3130 ----- Original Message -----
3132 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3133 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3134 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3135 citations work much like conventional citations.
3137 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3139 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3140 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3141 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3142 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3143 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3145 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3146 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3148 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3150 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3151 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3152 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3154 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3156 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3157 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3158 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3159 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3160 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3162 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3164 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3167 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3169 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3171 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3173 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3176 Vim interface improvements
3177 --------------------------
3179 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3181 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3182 * Implementing archive in show view
3183 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3184 * Add delete commands
3187 Bindings improvements
3188 ---------------------
3190 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3192 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3193 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3195 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3197 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3201 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3202 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3203 `list(Messages)` works now
3204 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3206 These allow, for example:
3208 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3210 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3212 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3218 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3220 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3223 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3225 New build-system features
3226 -------------------------
3228 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3230 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3231 the configure script from some other directory:
3238 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3240 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3241 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3242 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3243 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3244 manual invocation of configure.
3246 New test-suite feature
3247 ----------------------
3249 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3251 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3252 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3253 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3254 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3255 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3258 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3260 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3261 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3262 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3263 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3264 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3265 are updated to take advantage of this.
3267 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3269 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3270 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3271 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3272 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3278 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3280 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3281 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3282 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3284 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3286 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3288 to:user@elsewhere.com
3290 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3292 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3294 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3296 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3297 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3298 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3301 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3302 from the Received headers in some cases
3304 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3305 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3307 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3309 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3311 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3313 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3314 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3315 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3317 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3318 -------------------------
3320 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3322 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3323 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3324 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3326 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3328 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3329 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3330 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3333 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3335 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3336 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3337 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3338 fixed to avoid this bug.
3340 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3342 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3343 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3345 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3346 ========================
3348 New, general features
3349 ---------------------
3351 Maildir-flag synchronization
3353 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3354 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3363 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3365 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3366 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3367 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3368 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3370 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3371 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3372 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3373 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3376 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3378 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3379 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3380 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3382 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3383 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3385 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3386 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3388 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3389 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3390 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3392 New library features
3393 --------------------
3395 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3397 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3398 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3399 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3400 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3402 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3403 message with the new function:
3405 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3407 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3408 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3409 over all available filenames for a given message.
3411 New command-line features
3412 -------------------------
3414 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3416 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3417 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3418 access to the mail store itself.
3420 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3421 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3422 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3423 name of a script containing:
3425 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3427 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3428 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3434 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3436 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3438 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3440 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3441 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3442 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3443 now produces nothing).
3445 Emacs interface improvements
3446 ----------------------------
3448 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3450 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3452 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3454 Display current thread subject in a header line
3456 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3458 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3460 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3461 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3462 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3463 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3464 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3465 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3466 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3468 Vim interface improvements
3469 --------------------------
3471 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3473 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3474 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3480 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3482 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3483 ========================
3485 New command-line features
3486 -------------------------
3488 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3490 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3491 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3492 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3494 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3495 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3496 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3497 scripts. For example:
3499 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3500 <operations-on> "$file"
3503 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3505 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3506 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3507 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3508 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3509 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3510 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3512 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3514 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3515 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3516 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3517 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3519 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3521 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3522 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3523 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3524 default rather than Bcc.
3526 New library features
3527 --------------------
3529 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3531 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3532 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3537 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3539 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3540 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3541 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3542 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3543 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3544 notmuch customize interface.
3546 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3548 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3549 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3550 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3551 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3553 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3555 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3556 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3557 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3558 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3560 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3562 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3563 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3564 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3565 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3566 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3567 notmuch customize interface.
3569 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3571 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3572 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3573 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3574 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3575 notmuch customize interface.
3577 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3579 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3580 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3581 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3582 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3585 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3587 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3588 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3589 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3592 New build-system features
3593 -------------------------
3595 Various portability fixes have been applied
3597 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3598 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3599 more portable than ever before.
3601 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3603 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3604 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3605 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3607 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3608 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3609 automatically run ldconfig.
3611 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3612 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3613 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3615 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3616 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3617 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3618 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3620 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3622 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3623 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3624 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3625 used in the resulting Makefile.
3627 New test-suite features
3628 -----------------------
3630 New modularization of test suite
3632 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3633 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3634 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3635 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3636 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3637 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3638 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3639 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3641 New testing of emacs interface
3643 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3644 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3645 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3646 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3647 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3648 database via the FCC setting.
3653 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3655 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3656 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3657 persistent error of the form:
3659 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3661 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3662 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3664 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3666 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3667 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3668 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3670 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3672 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3673 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3674 parsing the notmuch results).
3676 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3678 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3681 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3682 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3683 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3688 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3690 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3691 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3692 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3693 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3694 the emacs interface.
3696 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3698 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3699 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3700 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3702 Python-binding fixes
3703 --------------------
3705 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3707 Debian-specific fixes
3708 ---------------------
3710 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3712 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3713 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3714 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3717 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3718 ==========================
3723 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3725 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3726 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3727 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3728 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3730 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3732 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3733 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3734 want notmuch to crash.
3739 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3741 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3742 directory does not exist
3747 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3749 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3750 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3752 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3753 ========================
3755 New command-line features
3756 -------------------------
3758 User-configurable tags for new messages
3760 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3761 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3762 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3763 to specify this value.
3765 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3767 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3768 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3769 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3771 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3773 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3774 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3776 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3778 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3779 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3780 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3781 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3782 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3785 Indication of author names that match a search
3787 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3788 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3789 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3790 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3791 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3792 messages in the thread are listed first.
3794 New: Python bindings
3795 --------------------
3797 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3798 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3799 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3800 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3802 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3803 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3804 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3807 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3808 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3809 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3811 Emacs interface improvements
3812 ----------------------------
3814 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3816 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3817 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3818 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3819 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3820 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3821 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3822 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3823 but without any of the disadvantages).
3825 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3826 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3827 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3830 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3831 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3832 instead running something like:
3834 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3836 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3837 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3838 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3841 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3843 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3844 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3845 tweaked by the user.
3847 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3848 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3849 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3852 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3853 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3854 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3857 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3859 This support currently relies on an external program,
3860 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3861 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3862 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3863 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3864 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3867 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3868 notmuch) is available via:
3870 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3872 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3873 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3874 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3876 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3878 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3879 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3880 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3881 making this automatic in a future release.
3883 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3885 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3886 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3887 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3888 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3889 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3890 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3893 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3895 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3896 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3897 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3899 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3901 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3902 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3903 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3905 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3906 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3907 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3908 other representation.
3910 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3911 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3914 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3916 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3917 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3918 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3920 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3921 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3922 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3924 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3926 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3927 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3928 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3929 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3930 to display the search result.
3932 More flexible handling of header visibility
3934 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3935 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3936 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3937 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3938 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3939 with the 'h' keybinding.
3941 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3942 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3943 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3945 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3947 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3949 Customizable formatting of search results
3951 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3952 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3953 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3955 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3957 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3959 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3964 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3966 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3967 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3968 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3969 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3975 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3977 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3978 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3980 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3982 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3983 accept are now all accepted.
3988 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3990 Better display of output from failed tests
3992 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3993 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3995 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3996 ========================
3998 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3999 detailed release notes this time!
4001 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4002 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4004 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4005 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4006 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4007 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4014 Better guessing of From: header
4016 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4017 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4018 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4019 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4020 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4023 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4025 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4026 guaranteed to match all messages.
4028 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4030 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4031 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4032 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4033 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4034 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4037 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4040 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4041 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4042 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4043 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4048 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4050 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4051 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4052 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4053 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4055 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4057 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4059 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4060 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4061 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4063 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4065 Previously, the user might see:
4067 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4071 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4073 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4074 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4075 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4076 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4078 Emacs client features
4079 ---------------------
4081 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4083 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4084 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4085 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4086 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4087 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4089 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4092 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4093 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4094 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4095 search with the '*' binding.
4097 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4099 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4100 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4103 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4105 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4106 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4107 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4109 Build-system features
4110 ---------------------
4112 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4114 Add support to configure for many standard options
4116 We include actual support for:
4118 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4120 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4122 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4123 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4125 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4126 separate "make install-emacs"
4128 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4130 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4131 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4132 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4134 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4137 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4138 ========================
4140 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4142 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4143 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4145 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4146 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4147 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4148 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4149 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4150 tags from messages in a thread.
4157 indent-tabs-mode: nil