1 Notmuch 0.32.1 (UNRELEASED)
2 ===========================
7 Restore handling of relative values for `database.path` that was
8 broken by 0.32. Extend this handling to `database.mail_root`,
9 `database.backup_dir`, and `database.hook_dir`.
11 Reload certain metadata from Xapian database in
12 notmuch_database_reopen. This fixes a bug when adding messages to the
13 database in a pre-new hook.
18 Restore the dynamically bound variables `tag-changes` and `query` in
19 in `notmuch-before-tag-hook` and `notmuch-after-tag-hook`.
21 Notmuch 0.32 (2021-05-02)
22 =========================
27 This release includes a significant overhaul of the configuration
28 management facilities for notmuch. The previous distinction between
29 configuration items that can be modified via plain text configuration
30 files and those that must be set in the database via the "notmuch
31 config" subcommand is gone, and all configuration items can be set in
32 both ways. The external configuration file overrides configuration
33 items in the database. The location of database, hooks, and
34 configuration files is now more flexible, with several new
35 configuration variables. In particular XDG locations are now supported
36 as fallbacks for database, configuration and hooks. For more
37 information see `notmuch-config(1)`.
42 To support the new configuration facilities, several functions and
43 constants have been added to the notmuch API. Most notably:
45 - `notmuch_database_create_with_config`
46 - `notmuch_database_open_with_config`
47 - `notmuch_database_load_config`
48 - `notmuch_config_get`
50 A previously requested API change is that `notmuch_database_reopen` is
51 now exposed (and generalized).
53 The previously severe slowdowns from large numbers calls to
54 notmuch_database_remove_message or notmuch_message_delete in one
55 session has been fixed.
57 As always, the canonical source of API documentation is
58 `lib/notmuch.h`, or the doxygen formatted documentation in `notmuch(3)`
63 The `notmuch config set` subcommand gained a `--database` argument to
64 specify that the database should be updated, rather than a config file.
66 The speed of `notmuch new` and `notmuch reindex` in dealing with large
67 numbers of mail file deletions is significantly improved.
72 Completion related updates include: de-duplicating tags offered for
73 completion, use the actual initial input in address completion, allow
74 users to opt out of notmuch address completion, and do not force Ido
75 when prompting for senders.
77 Some keymaps used to contain bindings for unnamed commands. These
78 lambda expressions have been replaced by named commands (symbols), to
81 Lexical binding is now used in all notmuch-emacs libraries.
83 Fix bug in calling `notmuch-mua-mail` with a non-nil RETURN-ACTION.
85 Removed, inlined or renamed functions and variables:
86 `notmuch-address-locate-command`,
87 `notmuch-documentation-first-line`, `notmuch-folder`,
88 `notmuch-hello-trim', `notmuch-hello-versions` => `notmuch-version`,
89 `notmuch-remove-if-not`, `notmuch-search-disjunctive-regexp`,
90 `notmuch-sexp-eof`, `notmuch-split-content-type`, and
91 `notmuch-tree-button-activate`.
93 Notmuch 0.31.4 (2021-02-18)
94 ===========================
99 Fix include bug triggered by glib 2.67.
104 Fix race condition in T568-lib-thread.
106 Notmuch 0.31.3 (2020-12-25)
107 ===========================
112 Fix for exclude tags in notmuch2 bindings.
117 Portability update for T360-symbol-hiding
122 Fix for memory error in notmuch_database_get_config_list
124 Notmuch 0.31.2 (2020-11-08)
125 ===========================
130 Catch one more occurence of "version" in the build system, which
131 caused the file to be regenerated in the release tarball.
133 Notmuch 0.31.1 (2020-11-08)
134 ===========================
139 Fix a memory initialization bug in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
144 Rename file 'version' to 'version.txt'. The old file name conflicted
145 with a C++ header for some compilers.
147 Replace use of coreutils `realpath` in configure.
149 Notmuch 0.31 (2020-09-05)
150 =========================
155 Notmuch now supports Emacs 27.1. You may need to set
156 `mml-secure-openpgp-sign-with-sender` and/or
157 `mml-secure-smime-sign-with-sender` to continue signing messages.
159 The minimum supported major version of GNU Emacs is now 25.1.
161 Add support for moving between threads after notmuch-tree-from-search-thread.
163 New `notmuch-unthreaded` mode (added in Notmuch 0.30)
165 Unthreaded view is a mode where each matching message is shown on a
168 The main key entries to unthreaded view are
170 'u' enter a query to view in unthreaded mode (works in hello,
171 search, show and tree mode)
173 'U' view the current query in unthreaded mode (works from search,
176 Saved searches can also specify that they should open in unthreaded
179 Currently it is not possible to specify the sort order: it will
180 always be newest first.
185 The shell pipeline executed by notmuch-mutt, which symlinked matched
186 files to a maildir for mutt to access is replaced with internal perl
187 processing. This search operation is now more portable, and somewhat
193 Improve exception handling in the library. This should
194 largely eliminate terminations inside the library due to uncaught
195 exceptions or internal errors. No doubt there are a few uncovered
196 code paths still; please report them as bugs.
198 Add `notmuch_message_get_flag_st` and
199 `notmuch_message_has_maildir_flag_st`, and deprecate the existing
200 non-status providing versions.
202 Move memory de-allocation from `notmuch_database_close` to
203 `notmuch_database_destroy`.
205 Handle relative filenames in `notmuch_database_index_file`, as
206 promised in the documentation.
211 Documentation for the python bindings is merged into the main
212 sphinx-doc documentation tree. The merged documentation can be built
213 with e.g. `make sphinx-html`
218 We now support building notmuch against Xapian 1.5 (the current
219 development version).
224 Test suite fixes for compatibility with Emacs 27.1.
229 Man pages are now compressed reproducibly.
231 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-07-10)
232 =========================
237 Handle S/MIME (PKCS#7) messages -- one-part signed messages, encrypted
238 messages, and multilayer messages. Treat them symmetrically to
239 OpenPGP messages. This includes handling protected headers
242 If you're using Notmuch with S/MIME, you currently need to configure
248 Detect and automatically repair a common form of message mangling
249 created by Microsoft Exchange (see index.repaired=mixedup in
250 notmuch-properties(7)).
255 Avoid indexing the legacy-display part of an encrypted message that
256 has protected headers (see
257 index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display in
258 notmuch-properties(7)).
263 Drop support for python2, focus on python3.
265 Introduce new CFFI-based python bindings in the python module named
266 "notmuch2". Officially deprecate (but still support) the older
272 Support for Xapian 1.2 is removed. The minimum supported version of
275 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
276 ===========================
281 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
283 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
288 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
290 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
291 ===========================
296 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
297 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
299 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
300 ===========================
305 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
307 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
308 =========================
313 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
314 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
317 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
318 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
319 the set of headers to be indexed.
321 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
324 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
325 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
326 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
329 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
330 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
331 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
333 Command Line Interface
334 ----------------------
336 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
339 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
341 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
342 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
343 more details about what is included there. This status includes
344 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
349 Optionally check for missing attachments in outgoing messages (see
350 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
352 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
354 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
356 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
358 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
360 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
363 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
365 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
366 and may be removed in a future release.
368 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
374 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
376 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
377 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
382 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
383 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
384 cryptography support.
389 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
390 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
391 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
393 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
394 ===========================
396 Command line interface
397 ----------------------
399 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
400 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
402 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
403 ===========================
408 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
409 by message properties.
414 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
416 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
417 ===========================
422 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
427 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
428 now needed to build this documentation.
430 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
431 ===========================
436 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
437 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
439 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
440 =========================
447 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
448 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
449 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
450 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
451 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
454 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
456 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
457 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
458 correct encoding for such messages.
460 Command Line Interface
461 ----------------------
463 Support relative database paths
465 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
466 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
467 to $HOME of the invoking user.
472 Improve stderr handling
474 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
475 needed on e.g. macOS.
477 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
479 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
484 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
485 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
491 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
492 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
498 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
499 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
502 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
503 =========================
508 Add support for thread:{} queries
510 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
511 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
512 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
514 Command Line Interface
515 ----------------------
517 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
519 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
521 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
523 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
524 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
525 does not have to be available during message receipt.
530 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
536 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
537 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
539 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
540 ===========================
545 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
547 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
548 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
549 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
551 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
553 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
554 related abort in `notmuch show`.
556 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
557 ===========================
562 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
563 better late than never.
566 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
567 =========================
569 Command Line Interface
570 ----------------------
572 Support for re-indexing existing messages
574 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
575 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
576 change the way specific messages are indexed.
578 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
579 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
580 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
582 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
584 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
586 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
588 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
589 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
590 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
591 the setting of `new.tags`.
593 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
595 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
597 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
599 This inserts into the top level folder.
601 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
603 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
605 New option --output=address for notmuch address
607 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
609 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
611 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
612 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
613 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
615 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
620 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
622 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
623 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
624 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
625 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
626 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
627 config set index.decrypt true".
629 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
630 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
631 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
632 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
633 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
634 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
635 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
636 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
638 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
639 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
640 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
641 this feature without considering the security of your index.
646 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
648 Use make-process when available
650 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
651 notmuch command without using temporary files.
656 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
658 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
659 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
660 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
661 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
663 New functions to count files
665 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
666 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
668 New function to remove properties
670 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
671 drop all properties with a common pattern:
672 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
674 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
676 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
677 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
678 possibility of NULL was not documented.
680 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
682 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
683 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
684 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
685 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
686 operator may decide to change from message to message.
693 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
694 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
695 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
701 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
703 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
704 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
706 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
708 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
710 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
712 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
717 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
718 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
720 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
721 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
722 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
723 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
724 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
725 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
730 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
732 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
733 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
734 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
735 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
737 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
738 ===========================
743 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
744 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
747 Command Line Interface
748 ----------------------
750 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
751 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
754 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
755 ===========================
757 Command Line Interface
758 ----------------------
760 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
761 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
766 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
769 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
770 ===========================
775 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
778 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
779 =========================
784 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
786 Skip HTML tags when indexing
788 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
790 Command Line Interface
791 ----------------------
793 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
795 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
800 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
802 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
803 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
806 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
811 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
813 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
814 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
816 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
818 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
819 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
822 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
824 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
826 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
828 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
829 ===========================
831 Command Line Interface
832 ----------------------
834 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
839 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
841 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
842 ===========================
847 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
849 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
850 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
853 Command Line Interface
854 ----------------------
856 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
858 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
860 Fix bug in dump header
862 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
863 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
864 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
869 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
871 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
872 =========================
877 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
879 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
882 Command Line Interface
883 ----------------------
885 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
887 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
888 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
889 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
891 New default output format to 3
893 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
894 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
895 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
896 default format changes.
901 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
903 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
904 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
905 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
906 or tree view to resume.
908 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
909 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
910 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
913 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
914 they were when you postponed in the final message.
918 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
919 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
920 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
921 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
922 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
926 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
927 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
928 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
929 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
930 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
931 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
935 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
936 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
938 Stop display of `application/*` parts
940 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
941 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
942 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
943 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
944 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
945 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
946 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
947 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
950 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
952 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
953 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
954 only tagged the current thread.)
956 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
958 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
959 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
960 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
962 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
964 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
965 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
966 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
967 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
968 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
969 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
970 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
972 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
974 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
975 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
976 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
981 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
983 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
986 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
988 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
991 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
992 ===========================
997 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
999 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
1000 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
1001 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
1004 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
1005 ===========================
1007 Command Line Interface
1008 ----------------------
1010 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
1015 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
1017 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
1018 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
1019 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
1021 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
1022 ===========================
1027 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
1028 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
1030 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
1031 ===========================
1033 Command Line Interface
1034 ----------------------
1036 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
1038 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
1039 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
1040 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
1045 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
1047 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
1048 ===========================
1050 Command Line Interface
1051 ----------------------
1053 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
1058 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
1060 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
1061 ===========================
1066 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
1068 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
1069 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
1070 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
1072 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
1074 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
1076 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
1077 ===========================
1082 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
1084 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
1089 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
1091 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
1092 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
1093 the original colours.
1095 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
1096 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
1098 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
1100 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
1101 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
1102 bug, and hence the test.
1104 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
1105 =========================
1107 General (Xapian 1.4+)
1108 ---------------------
1110 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
1112 Support for single argument date: queries
1114 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
1116 Support for blocking opens
1118 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
1119 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
1121 Support for named queries
1123 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
1124 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
1125 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
1130 Message property API
1132 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
1133 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
1134 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
1135 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
1137 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
1139 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
1144 Support for compile time options
1146 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
1147 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
1150 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
1152 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
1153 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
1154 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
1155 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
1156 scripts to ignore it.
1161 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
1163 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
1164 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
1165 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
1167 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
1168 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
1169 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
1170 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
1171 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
1172 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
1173 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
1175 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
1176 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
1179 Make internal address completion customizable
1181 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
1182 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
1183 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
1184 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
1187 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
1189 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
1190 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
1191 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
1192 completion for the current buffer.
1194 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
1195 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
1196 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
1200 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
1201 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
1202 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
1203 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
1204 will be added instead.
1206 Face customization is easier
1208 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
1209 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
1210 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
1211 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
1213 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
1218 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
1223 Go bindings moved to contrib
1225 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
1227 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
1229 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
1230 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
1232 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
1234 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
1235 ===========================
1242 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
1243 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
1245 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
1247 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
1249 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
1250 ===========================
1255 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
1257 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
1262 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
1267 Use `env` to locate perl.
1272 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1274 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1276 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1278 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1280 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1281 =========================
1288 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1289 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1291 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1293 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1294 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1295 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1300 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1301 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1302 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1304 Command Line Interface
1305 ----------------------
1307 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1309 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1314 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1319 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1321 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1322 parts are now included in replies.
1324 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1325 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1326 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1327 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1329 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1331 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1333 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1335 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1336 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1337 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1338 forwards only the current message.
1340 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1342 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1343 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1344 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1345 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1346 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1347 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1348 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1349 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1352 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1353 longer generate empty buffers
1355 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1356 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1357 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1358 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1359 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1361 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1363 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1366 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1368 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1371 Address completion improvements
1373 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1374 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1375 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1376 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1377 interactive address completion.
1379 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1381 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1382 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1383 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1388 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1389 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1390 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1396 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1397 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1398 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1399 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1400 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1401 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1403 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1404 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1405 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1406 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1407 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1408 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1410 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1411 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1413 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1414 =========================
1419 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1422 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1424 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1425 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1426 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1428 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1429 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1431 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1432 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1433 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1435 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1437 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1438 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1439 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1440 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1441 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1442 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1447 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1448 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1451 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1452 option to configure.
1454 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1456 Command Line Interface
1457 ----------------------
1459 Database revision tracking
1461 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1462 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1463 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1464 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1466 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1468 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1469 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1470 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1471 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1472 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1473 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1474 manual page for further information.
1479 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1481 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1482 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1484 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1486 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1487 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1488 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1490 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1492 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1494 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1495 customization as well.
1497 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1499 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1501 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1503 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1505 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1506 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1507 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1508 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1510 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1512 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1513 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1514 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1515 this variable to 10000.
1520 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1521 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1523 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1525 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1526 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1527 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1528 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1529 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1530 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1531 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1532 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1533 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1536 Database revision tracking
1538 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1539 query parser and the new function
1540 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1542 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1544 Deprecated functions
1546 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1547 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1548 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1549 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1554 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1556 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1557 ===========================
1562 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1564 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1565 ===========================
1570 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1572 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1573 =========================
1575 Command-Line Interface
1576 ----------------------
1578 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1580 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1581 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1582 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1584 Path to gpg is now configurable
1586 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1587 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1592 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1594 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1599 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1604 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1609 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1611 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1612 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1614 New error logging facility
1616 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1617 output formerly printed to stderr.
1619 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1621 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1623 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1625 Fix for rounding of seconds
1630 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1632 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1633 documentation has been removed.
1635 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1637 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1638 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1643 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1644 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1645 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1650 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1651 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1652 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1653 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1654 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1655 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1658 git checkout config origin/config
1660 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1662 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1663 =========================
1668 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1669 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1670 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1671 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1672 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1673 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1674 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1676 Command-Line Interface
1677 ----------------------
1679 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1681 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1682 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1683 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1684 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1685 script callers should still check the return value.
1687 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1689 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1690 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1691 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1692 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1693 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1694 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1695 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1697 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1699 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1700 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1701 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1703 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1705 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1706 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1707 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1708 currently unmaintained.
1710 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1712 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1713 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1714 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1715 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1717 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1719 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1720 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1721 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1722 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1723 count of duplicate addresses.
1728 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1730 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1731 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1732 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1735 Improved handling of the unread tag
1737 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1738 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1739 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1740 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1741 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1742 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1743 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1745 Expanded default saved search settings
1747 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1748 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1750 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1752 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1753 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1754 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1756 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1758 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1759 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1760 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1761 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1762 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1763 the variable for details.
1768 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1770 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1771 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1772 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1773 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1775 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1777 Previously, library users were required to call
1778 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1779 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1780 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1781 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1782 too out of date for that API.
1784 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1786 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1787 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1788 atomic section will be aborted.
1790 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1791 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1793 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1795 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1796 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1797 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1798 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1799 messages into the same thread.
1804 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1805 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1806 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1807 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1808 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1809 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1814 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1815 from the config file. Use something like:
1819 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1820 "footer": "</body></html>",
1829 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1834 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1835 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1836 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1838 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1839 ===========================
1844 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1846 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1848 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1850 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1851 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1853 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1855 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1858 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1859 ===========================
1861 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1866 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1868 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1870 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1872 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1874 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1880 Use --quick when starting emacs
1882 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1884 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1886 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1888 Command-Line Interface
1889 ----------------------
1891 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1892 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1897 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1899 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1900 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1902 Fix for phrase indexing
1904 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1905 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1906 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1911 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1913 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1914 unintentionally removed.
1916 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1917 =========================
1922 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1923 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1924 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1925 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1926 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1927 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1928 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1929 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1930 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1936 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1938 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1939 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1940 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1941 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1942 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1943 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1944 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1945 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1947 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1949 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1950 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1951 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1952 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1955 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1957 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1958 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1959 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1960 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1961 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1962 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1963 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1968 Notmuch database upgrade
1970 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1971 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1972 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1973 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1974 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1975 released version of Notmuch before now.
1977 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1979 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1980 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1981 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1982 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1984 Message header parsing changes
1986 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1987 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1988 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1989 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1990 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1991 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1993 Command-Line Interface
1994 ----------------------
1996 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1998 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
2000 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
2002 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
2004 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
2006 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
2007 user does not want it.
2009 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
2011 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
2012 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
2013 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
2014 support formatted output.
2016 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
2018 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
2019 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
2020 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
2028 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
2029 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
2030 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
2031 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
2032 `~/.emacs` with these.
2034 Changed format for saved searches
2036 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
2037 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
2038 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
2039 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
2042 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
2043 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
2044 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
2045 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2047 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
2048 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
2049 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
2051 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
2052 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
2053 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
2054 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
2055 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
2057 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
2059 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
2060 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
2061 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
2063 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
2065 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
2066 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
2067 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
2068 message had been unread).
2070 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
2071 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
2072 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
2073 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
2075 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
2076 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
2077 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
2079 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
2080 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
2081 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
2082 to tags already present.
2086 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
2087 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
2088 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
2089 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
2090 these differ from each other.
2091 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
2093 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
2095 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
2096 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
2097 for these Emacs versions.
2099 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
2101 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
2102 newlines before calling notmuch count.
2104 Bug fixes for sender identities
2106 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
2107 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
2108 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
2110 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
2112 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
2113 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
2114 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
2115 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
2117 Reply pushes mark before signature
2119 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
2120 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
2121 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
2123 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
2125 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
2126 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
2132 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
2133 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
2135 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
2136 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
2137 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
2138 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
2140 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
2141 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
2142 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
2143 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
2144 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
2146 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
2148 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
2149 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
2151 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
2152 =========================
2154 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
2155 ---------------------------------------
2157 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
2158 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
2159 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
2160 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
2161 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
2162 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
2163 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
2167 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
2168 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
2170 Command-Line Interface
2171 ----------------------
2173 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
2175 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
2176 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
2177 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
2178 print for each message.
2180 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
2181 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
2182 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
2183 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
2185 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
2187 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
2188 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
2189 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
2191 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
2193 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
2194 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
2195 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
2196 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
2198 `notmuch compact` command
2200 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
2201 functionality through a more convenient interface than
2202 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
2203 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
2204 move the compacted database into place.
2209 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
2211 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
2212 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
2213 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
2214 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
2215 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
2216 and multiple threads.
2218 Using `notmuch-tree`
2220 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
2222 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
2223 search, show and tree mode itself)
2225 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
2228 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
2229 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
2231 Customising `notmuch-tree`
2233 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
2234 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
2235 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
2236 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
2237 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
2238 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
2239 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
2241 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
2243 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
2244 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
2245 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
2246 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
2247 thread when the search was performed.
2249 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
2251 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
2252 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
2253 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
2255 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
2257 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
2258 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
2261 Built-in help improvements
2263 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
2264 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
2265 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
2267 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
2269 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
2270 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
2271 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
2273 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2275 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2276 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2278 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2280 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2281 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2282 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2283 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2285 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2287 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2288 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2289 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2290 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2292 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2294 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2295 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2296 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2298 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2300 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2301 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2302 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2304 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2306 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2307 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2308 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2309 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2310 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2312 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2314 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2315 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2316 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2317 the body part of the message.
2322 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2323 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2324 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2326 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2327 =========================
2329 Command-Line Interface
2330 ----------------------
2332 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2334 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2335 folder and notmuch index.
2337 `notmuch count --batch` option
2339 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2340 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2342 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2344 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2345 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2346 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2349 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2351 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2352 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2353 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2354 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2355 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2358 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2360 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2361 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2363 Top level option to specify configuration file
2365 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2366 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2368 Bash command-line completion
2370 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2371 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2372 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2373 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2374 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2375 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2376 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2377 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2378 bash-completion package.
2380 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2385 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2387 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2388 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2389 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2390 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2391 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2392 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2393 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2394 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2396 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2398 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2399 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2400 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2402 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2404 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2405 previous thread in the search results.
2407 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2409 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2410 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2412 Faster search and show
2414 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2415 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2416 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2417 threads should show faster.
2421 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2422 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2423 in question was now removed from this release.
2428 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2429 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2434 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2436 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2437 ===========================
2442 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2444 Internal test framework changes
2445 -------------------------------
2447 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2448 being unimplemented.
2450 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2451 ===========================
2453 Internal test framework changes
2454 -------------------------------
2456 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2457 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2459 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2460 =========================
2465 Date range search support
2467 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2468 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2469 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2470 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2471 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2474 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2476 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2477 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2478 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2479 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2480 but may be removed in a future release.
2482 Command-Line Interface
2483 ----------------------
2485 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2487 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2488 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2490 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2492 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2493 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2494 officially deprecated.
2496 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2498 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2499 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2500 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2502 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2504 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2505 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2508 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2509 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2510 dump/restore format.
2512 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2514 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2515 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2516 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2518 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2520 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2521 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2522 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2524 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2526 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2527 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2528 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2529 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2534 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2536 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2537 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2538 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2539 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2541 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2543 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2544 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2545 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2546 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2547 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2548 the behavior of this, see
2549 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2550 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2552 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2553 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2554 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2556 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2558 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2559 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2562 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2564 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2565 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2566 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2567 simply displayed in place of the message.
2569 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2571 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2572 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2574 Improved text/calendar content handling
2576 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2577 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2578 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2579 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2581 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2583 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2584 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2585 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2586 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2588 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2590 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2591 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2592 for HTML email containing images.
2594 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2596 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2598 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2600 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2603 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2605 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2606 the point where it was.
2608 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2610 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2611 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2612 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2613 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2614 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2616 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2618 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2619 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2620 thread instead of the message id.
2622 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2623 -----------------------------
2625 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2626 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2627 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2628 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2629 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2630 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2631 further details and installation.
2636 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2638 Internal test framework changes
2639 -------------------------------
2641 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2643 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2644 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2645 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2646 can result in buggy behavior.
2648 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2649 =========================
2654 Maildir tag synchronization
2656 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2657 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2658 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2659 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2660 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2661 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2664 Command-Line Interface
2665 ----------------------
2667 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2668 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2669 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2670 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2671 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2677 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2679 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2681 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2682 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2683 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2685 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2687 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2688 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2689 span multiple lines.
2691 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2693 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2694 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2695 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2696 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2697 inside the result or message.
2699 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2701 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2702 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2704 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2705 user-specified formatting
2707 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2708 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2709 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2710 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2711 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2713 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2714 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2716 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2717 ===========================
2722 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2723 compilation error for this contrib package.
2725 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2726 ===========================
2731 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2733 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2734 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2735 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2736 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2738 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2739 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2742 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2743 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2744 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2745 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2748 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2750 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2753 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2754 =========================
2756 Command-Line Interface
2757 ----------------------
2761 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2762 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2763 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2764 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2766 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2767 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2768 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2769 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2773 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2774 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2776 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2777 tag in your query, for example:
2779 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2781 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2782 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2784 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2785 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2787 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2789 Raw show format changes
2791 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2792 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2793 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2794 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2795 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2796 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2797 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2798 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2800 Listing configuration items
2802 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2808 Changes to tagging interface
2810 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2811 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2812 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2813 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2814 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2815 for more information.
2817 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2818 may need to update in custom configurations.
2820 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2822 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2823 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2824 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2825 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2828 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2829 -----------------------------
2831 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2832 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2833 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2834 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2835 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2836 contrib/ from now on.
2841 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2842 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2844 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2845 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2847 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2848 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2849 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2851 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2852 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2854 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2855 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2856 returning the new database object or directory object.
2863 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2864 compatible with go 1.
2866 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2867 =========================
2869 Command-Line Interface
2870 ----------------------
2874 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2875 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2876 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2877 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2879 Mail store folder/file ignore
2881 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2882 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2883 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2885 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2886 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2888 Unified help and manual pages
2890 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2891 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2894 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2896 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2897 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2905 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2906 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2907 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2908 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2910 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2912 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2913 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2915 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2918 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2919 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2920 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2922 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2924 should be changed to:
2926 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2928 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2930 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2931 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2933 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2935 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2936 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2937 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2938 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2939 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2940 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2944 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2945 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2946 of Mailing List Archives.
2948 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2950 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2951 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2954 Show view archiving key binding changes
2956 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2957 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2958 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2959 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2960 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2963 Support text/calendar MIME type
2965 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2968 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2970 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2971 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2972 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2973 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2975 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2977 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2978 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2979 messages blue by default in the search view.
2983 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2984 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2991 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2994 Python bindings changes
2995 -----------------------
2997 Python 3.2 compatibility
2999 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
3001 Added missing unicode conversions
3003 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
3004 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
3005 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
3010 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
3012 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
3013 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
3014 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
3015 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
3016 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
3018 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
3019 ===========================
3024 Fix error handling in python bindings
3026 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
3027 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
3028 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
3029 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
3031 Quote MML tags in replies
3033 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
3034 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
3035 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
3036 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
3037 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
3038 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
3039 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
3040 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
3042 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
3043 =========================
3045 Command-Line Interface
3046 ----------------------
3050 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
3051 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
3052 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
3053 importing new messages into the database.
3055 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
3057 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
3058 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
3059 sometimes. This is now fixed.
3064 Automatic tag query optimization
3066 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
3067 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
3068 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
3070 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
3072 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
3073 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
3074 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
3079 Reduction of memory leaks
3081 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
3082 and fixed in this release.
3089 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
3090 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
3091 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
3094 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3096 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3097 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
3098 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
3101 Improvements in saved search management
3103 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
3104 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
3105 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
3107 Hooks for notmuch-hello
3109 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
3110 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
3111 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
3113 New face for crypto parts headers
3115 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
3116 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
3117 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
3120 Use space as default thousands separator
3122 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
3123 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
3124 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
3126 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
3127 buttonized id: links
3129 New function notmuch-show-advance
3131 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
3132 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
3133 be bound to SPC with:
3135 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
3137 Various performance improvements
3142 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
3143 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
3146 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
3147 ===========================
3152 Fix crash in python bindings
3154 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
3155 for some, but not all users.
3157 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
3158 ===========================
3163 Fix `--help` argument
3165 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
3166 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
3167 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
3169 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
3170 =========================
3172 New build and testing features
3173 ------------------------------
3175 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
3176 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
3177 prerequisites is improved.
3179 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
3181 New command-line features
3182 -------------------------
3184 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
3186 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
3187 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
3190 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
3192 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
3193 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
3194 favour of using stdout.
3196 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
3198 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
3199 limit the number of results shown.
3201 Add `notmuch count --output` option
3203 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
3204 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
3207 New emacs UI features
3208 ---------------------
3210 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
3212 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
3213 starting with "tag:".
3215 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
3217 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
3218 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
3220 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
3222 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
3224 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
3226 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
3227 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
3232 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
3234 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
3236 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
3237 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
3238 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
3239 requires a database rebuild:
3241 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3242 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3244 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3246 New collection of add-on tools
3247 ------------------------------
3249 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
3250 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
3251 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
3254 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
3256 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
3257 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
3258 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
3260 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
3261 ========================
3263 New, general features
3264 ---------------------
3266 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
3268 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
3269 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
3270 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
3271 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
3272 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3279 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3280 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3282 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3286 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3287 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3288 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3291 Python bindings changes
3292 -----------------------
3294 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3296 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3297 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3298 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3299 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3300 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3301 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3303 Ruby bindings changes
3304 ---------------------
3306 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3307 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3308 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3309 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3314 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3316 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3317 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3319 Reply formatting cleanup
3320 ------------------------
3322 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3323 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3325 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3326 ========================
3328 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3330 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3331 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3332 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3333 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3336 Improved Build system portability
3338 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3339 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3340 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3342 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3344 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3346 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3348 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3349 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3350 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3352 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3353 ========================
3355 Vim interface improvements
3356 --------------------------
3358 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3360 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3361 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3362 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3363 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3364 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3366 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3368 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3369 * fix compose temp file name
3371 Python Bindings changes
3372 -----------------------
3374 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3376 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3377 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3379 Build-System improvements
3380 -------------------------
3382 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3384 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3387 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3388 ==========================
3393 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3395 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3396 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3398 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3399 =======================
3401 New, general features
3402 ---------------------
3404 Folder-based searching
3406 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3407 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3408 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3412 For example, one might use things such as:
3418 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3419 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3421 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3422 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3423 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3424 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3426 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3427 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3428 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3431 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3432 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3434 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3436 Support for PGP/MIME
3438 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3439 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3440 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3442 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3444 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3445 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3447 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3448 notmuch will receive these tags.
3450 New command-line features
3451 -------------------------
3453 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3455 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3456 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3458 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3460 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3461 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3462 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3464 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3466 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3467 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3468 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3469 which parts a signature part applies).
3471 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3473 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3474 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3475 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3476 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3477 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3480 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3482 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3483 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3484 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3485 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3486 by translating it internally to the new call.
3488 Performance improvements
3489 ------------------------
3491 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3493 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3494 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3495 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3497 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3498 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3500 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3502 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3503 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3504 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3506 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3507 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3508 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3509 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3511 Faster initial indexing
3513 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3514 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3515 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3517 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3519 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3520 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3521 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3522 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3524 New emacs-interface features
3525 ----------------------------
3527 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3529 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3530 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3531 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3532 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3533 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3534 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3536 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3538 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3539 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3540 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3541 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3543 User-selectable From address
3545 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3546 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3547 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3548 will prompt for the from address to use.
3550 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3551 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3552 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3554 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3555 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3556 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3559 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3561 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3562 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3564 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3566 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3568 ----- Original Message -----
3570 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3571 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3572 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3573 citations work much like conventional citations.
3575 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3577 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3578 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3579 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3580 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3581 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3583 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3584 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3586 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3588 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3589 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3590 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3592 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3594 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3595 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3596 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3597 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3598 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3600 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3602 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3605 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3607 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3609 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3611 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3614 Vim interface improvements
3615 --------------------------
3617 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3619 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3620 * Implementing archive in show view
3621 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3622 * Add delete commands
3625 Bindings improvements
3626 ---------------------
3628 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3630 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3631 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3633 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3635 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3639 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3640 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3641 `list(Messages)` works now
3642 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3644 These allow, for example:
3646 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3648 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3650 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3656 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3658 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3661 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3663 New build-system features
3664 -------------------------
3666 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3668 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3669 the configure script from some other directory:
3676 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3678 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3679 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3680 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3681 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3682 manual invocation of configure.
3684 New test-suite feature
3685 ----------------------
3687 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3689 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3690 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3691 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3692 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3693 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3696 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3698 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3699 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3700 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3701 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3702 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3703 are updated to take advantage of this.
3705 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3707 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3708 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3709 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3710 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3716 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3718 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3719 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3720 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3722 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3724 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3726 to:user@elsewhere.com
3728 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3730 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3732 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3734 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3735 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3736 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3739 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3740 from the Received headers in some cases
3742 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3743 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3745 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3747 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3749 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3751 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3752 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3753 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3755 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3756 -------------------------
3758 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3760 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3761 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3762 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3764 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3766 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3767 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3768 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3771 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3773 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3774 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3775 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3776 fixed to avoid this bug.
3778 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3780 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3781 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3783 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3784 ========================
3786 New, general features
3787 ---------------------
3789 Maildir-flag synchronization
3791 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3792 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3801 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3803 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3804 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3805 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3806 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3808 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3809 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3810 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3811 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3814 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3816 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3817 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3818 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3820 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3821 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3823 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3824 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3826 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3827 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3828 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3830 New library features
3831 --------------------
3833 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3835 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3836 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3837 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3838 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3840 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3841 message with the new function:
3843 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3845 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3846 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3847 over all available filenames for a given message.
3849 New command-line features
3850 -------------------------
3852 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3854 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3855 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3856 access to the mail store itself.
3858 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3859 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3860 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3861 name of a script containing:
3863 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3865 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3866 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3872 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3874 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3876 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3878 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3879 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3880 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3881 now produces nothing).
3883 Emacs interface improvements
3884 ----------------------------
3886 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3888 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3890 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3892 Display current thread subject in a header line
3894 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3896 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3898 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3899 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3900 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3901 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3902 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3903 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3904 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3906 Vim interface improvements
3907 --------------------------
3909 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3911 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3912 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3918 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3920 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3921 ========================
3923 New command-line features
3924 -------------------------
3926 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3928 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3929 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3930 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3932 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3933 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3934 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3935 scripts. For example:
3937 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3938 <operations-on> "$file"
3941 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3943 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3944 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3945 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3946 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3947 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3948 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3950 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3952 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3953 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3954 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3955 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3957 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3959 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3960 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3961 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3962 default rather than Bcc.
3964 New library features
3965 --------------------
3967 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3969 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3970 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3975 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3977 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3978 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3979 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3980 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3981 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3982 notmuch customize interface.
3984 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3986 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3987 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3988 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3989 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3991 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3993 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3994 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3995 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3996 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3998 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
4000 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
4001 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
4002 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
4003 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
4004 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
4005 notmuch customize interface.
4007 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
4009 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
4010 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
4011 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
4012 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
4013 notmuch customize interface.
4015 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
4017 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
4018 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
4019 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
4020 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
4023 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
4025 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
4026 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
4027 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
4030 New build-system features
4031 -------------------------
4033 Various portability fixes have been applied
4035 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
4036 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
4037 more portable than ever before.
4039 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
4041 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
4042 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
4043 after installing. This support takes two forms:
4045 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
4046 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
4047 automatically run ldconfig.
4049 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
4050 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
4051 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
4053 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
4054 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
4055 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
4056 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
4058 Check compiler/linker options before using them
4060 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
4061 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
4062 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
4063 used in the resulting Makefile.
4065 New test-suite features
4066 -----------------------
4068 New modularization of test suite
4070 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
4071 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
4072 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
4073 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
4074 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
4075 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
4076 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
4077 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
4079 New testing of emacs interface
4081 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
4082 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
4083 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
4084 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
4085 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
4086 database via the FCC setting.
4091 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
4093 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
4094 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
4095 persistent error of the form:
4097 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
4099 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
4100 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
4102 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
4104 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
4105 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
4106 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
4108 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
4110 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
4111 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
4112 parsing the notmuch results).
4114 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
4116 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
4119 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
4120 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
4121 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
4126 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
4128 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
4129 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
4130 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
4131 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
4132 the emacs interface.
4134 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
4136 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
4137 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
4138 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
4140 Python-binding fixes
4141 --------------------
4143 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
4145 Debian-specific fixes
4146 ---------------------
4148 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
4150 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
4151 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
4152 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
4155 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
4156 ==========================
4161 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
4163 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
4164 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
4165 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
4166 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
4168 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
4170 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
4171 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
4172 want notmuch to crash.
4177 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
4179 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
4180 directory does not exist
4185 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
4187 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
4188 final linking of notmuch would fail.
4190 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
4191 ========================
4193 New command-line features
4194 -------------------------
4196 User-configurable tags for new messages
4198 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
4199 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
4200 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
4201 to specify this value.
4203 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
4205 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
4206 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
4207 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
4209 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
4211 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
4212 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
4214 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
4216 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
4217 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
4218 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
4219 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
4220 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
4223 Indication of author names that match a search
4225 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
4226 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
4227 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
4228 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
4229 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
4230 messages in the thread are listed first.
4232 New: Python bindings
4233 --------------------
4235 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
4236 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
4237 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
4238 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
4240 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
4241 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
4242 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
4245 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
4246 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
4247 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
4249 Emacs interface improvements
4250 ----------------------------
4252 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
4254 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
4255 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
4256 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
4257 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
4258 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
4259 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
4260 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
4261 but without any of the disadvantages).
4263 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
4264 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
4265 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
4268 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
4269 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
4270 instead running something like:
4272 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4274 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4275 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4276 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4279 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4281 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4282 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4283 tweaked by the user.
4285 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4286 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4287 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4290 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4291 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4292 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4295 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4297 This support currently relies on an external program,
4298 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4299 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4300 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4301 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4302 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4305 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4306 notmuch) is available via:
4308 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4310 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4311 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4312 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4314 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4316 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4317 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4318 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4319 making this automatic in a future release.
4321 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4323 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4324 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4325 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4326 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4327 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4328 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4331 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4333 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4334 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4335 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4337 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4339 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4340 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4341 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4343 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4344 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4345 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4346 other representation.
4348 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4349 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4352 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4354 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4355 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4356 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4358 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4359 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4360 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4362 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4364 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4365 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4366 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4367 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4368 to display the search result.
4370 More flexible handling of header visibility
4372 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4373 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4374 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4375 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4376 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4377 with the 'h' keybinding.
4379 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4380 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4381 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4383 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4385 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4387 Customizable formatting of search results
4389 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4390 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4391 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4393 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4395 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4397 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4402 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4404 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4405 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4406 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4407 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4413 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4415 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4416 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4418 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4420 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4421 accept are now all accepted.
4426 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4428 Better display of output from failed tests
4430 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4431 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4433 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4434 ========================
4436 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4437 detailed release notes this time!
4439 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4440 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4442 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4443 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4444 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4445 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4452 Better guessing of From: header
4454 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4455 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4456 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4457 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4458 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4461 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4463 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4464 guaranteed to match all messages.
4466 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4468 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4469 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4470 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4471 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4472 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4475 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4478 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4479 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4480 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4481 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4486 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4488 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4489 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4490 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4491 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4493 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4495 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4497 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4498 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4499 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4501 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4503 Previously, the user might see:
4505 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4509 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4511 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4512 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4513 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4514 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4516 Emacs client features
4517 ---------------------
4519 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4521 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4522 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4523 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4524 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4525 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4527 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4530 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4531 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4532 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4533 search with the '*' binding.
4535 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4537 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4538 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4541 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4543 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4544 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4545 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4547 Build-system features
4548 ---------------------
4550 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4552 Add support to configure for many standard options
4554 We include actual support for:
4556 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4558 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4560 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4561 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4563 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4564 separate "make install-emacs"
4566 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4568 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4569 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4570 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4572 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4575 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4576 ========================
4578 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4580 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4581 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4583 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4584 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4585 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4586 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4587 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4588 tags from messages in a thread.
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