1 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-06-01)
2 =========================
7 Handle S/MIME (PKCS#7) messages -- one-part signed messages, encrypted
8 messages, and multilayer messages. Treat them symmetrically to
9 OpenPGP messages. This includes handling protected headers
12 If you're using Notmuch with S/MIME, you currently need to configure
18 Detect and automatically repair a common form of message mangling
19 created by Microsoft Exchange. (see index.repaired=mixedup in
20 notmuch-properties(7).
25 Avoid indexing the legacy-display part of an encrypted message that
26 has protected headers. (see
27 index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display in
28 notmuch-properties(7).
33 Drop compatibility with python2, focus on python3.
35 Introduce new CFFI-based python bindings in the python module named
36 "notmuch2". Officially deprecate (but still support) the older
39 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
40 ===========================
45 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
47 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
52 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
54 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
55 ===========================
60 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
61 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
63 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
64 ===========================
69 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
71 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
72 =========================
77 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
78 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
81 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
82 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
83 the set of headers to be indexed.
85 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
88 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
89 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
90 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
93 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
94 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
95 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
97 Command Line Interface
98 ----------------------
100 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
103 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
105 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
106 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
107 more details about what is included there. This status includes
108 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
113 Optionally check for missing attachements in outgoing messages (see
114 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
116 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
118 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
120 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
122 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
124 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
127 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
129 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
130 and may be removed in a future release.
132 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
138 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
140 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
141 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
146 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
147 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
148 cryptography support.
153 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
154 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
155 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
157 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
158 ===========================
160 Command line interface
161 ----------------------
163 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
164 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
166 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
167 ===========================
172 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
173 by message properties.
178 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
180 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
181 ===========================
186 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
191 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
192 now needed to build this documentation.
194 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
195 ===========================
200 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
201 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
203 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
204 =========================
211 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
212 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
213 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
214 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
215 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
218 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
220 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
221 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
222 correct encoding for such messages.
224 Command Line Interface
225 ----------------------
227 Support relative database paths
229 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
230 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
231 to $HOME of the invoking user.
236 Improve stderr handling
238 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
239 needed on e.g. macOS.
241 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
243 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
248 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
249 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
255 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
256 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
262 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
263 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
266 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
267 =========================
272 Add support for thread:{} queries
274 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
275 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
276 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
278 Command Line Interface
279 ----------------------
281 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
283 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
285 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
287 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
288 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
289 does not have to be available during message receipt.
294 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
300 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
301 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
303 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
304 ===========================
309 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
311 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
312 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
313 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
315 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
317 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
318 related abort in `notmuch show`.
320 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
321 ===========================
326 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
327 better late than never.
330 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
331 =========================
333 Command Line Interface
334 ----------------------
336 Support for re-indexing existing messages
338 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
339 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
340 change the way specific messages are indexed.
342 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
343 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
344 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
346 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
348 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
350 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
352 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
353 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
354 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
355 the setting of `new.tags`.
357 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
359 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
361 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
363 This inserts into the top level folder.
365 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
367 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
369 New option --output=address for notmuch address
371 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
373 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
375 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
376 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
377 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
379 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
384 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
386 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
387 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
388 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
389 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
390 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
391 config set index.decrypt true".
393 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
394 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
395 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
396 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
397 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
398 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
399 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
400 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
402 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
403 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
404 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
405 this feature without considering the security of your index.
410 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
412 Use make-process when available
414 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
415 notmuch command without using temporary files.
420 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
422 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
423 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
424 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
425 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
427 New functions to count files
429 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
430 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
432 New function to remove properties
434 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
435 drop all properties with a common pattern:
436 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
438 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
440 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
441 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
442 possibility of NULL was not documented.
444 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
446 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
447 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
448 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
449 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
450 operator may decide to change from message to message.
457 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
458 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
459 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
465 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
467 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
468 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
470 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
472 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
474 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
476 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
481 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
482 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
484 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
485 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
486 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
487 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
488 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
489 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
494 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
496 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
497 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
498 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
499 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
501 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
502 ===========================
507 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
508 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
511 Command Line Interface
512 ----------------------
514 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
515 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
518 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
519 ===========================
521 Command Line Interface
522 ----------------------
524 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
525 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
530 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
533 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
534 ===========================
539 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
542 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
543 =========================
548 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
550 Skip HTML tags when indexing
552 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
554 Command Line Interface
555 ----------------------
557 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
559 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
564 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
566 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
567 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
570 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
575 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
577 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
578 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
580 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
582 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
583 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
586 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
588 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
590 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
592 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
593 ===========================
595 Command Line Interface
596 ----------------------
598 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
603 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
605 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
606 ===========================
611 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
613 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
614 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
617 Command Line Interface
618 ----------------------
620 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
622 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
624 Fix bug in dump header
626 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
627 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
628 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
633 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
635 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
636 =========================
641 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
643 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
646 Command Line Interface
647 ----------------------
649 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
651 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
652 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
653 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
655 New default output format to 3
657 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
658 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
659 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
660 default format changes.
665 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
667 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
668 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
669 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
670 or tree view to resume.
672 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
673 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
674 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
677 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
678 they were when you postponed in the final message.
682 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
683 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
684 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
685 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
686 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
690 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
691 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
692 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
693 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
694 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
695 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
699 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
700 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
702 Stop display of `application/*` parts
704 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
705 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
706 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
707 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
708 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
709 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
710 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
711 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
714 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
716 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
717 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
718 only tagged the current thread.)
720 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
722 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
723 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
724 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
726 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
728 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
729 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
730 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
731 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
732 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
733 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
734 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
736 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
738 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
739 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
740 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
745 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
747 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
750 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
752 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
755 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
756 ===========================
761 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
763 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
764 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
765 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
768 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
769 ===========================
771 Command Line Interface
772 ----------------------
774 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
779 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
781 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
782 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
783 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
785 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
786 ===========================
791 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
792 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
794 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
795 ===========================
797 Command Line Interface
798 ----------------------
800 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
802 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
803 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
804 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
809 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
811 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
812 ===========================
814 Command Line Interface
815 ----------------------
817 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
822 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
824 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
825 ===========================
830 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
832 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
833 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
834 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
836 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
838 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
840 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
841 ===========================
846 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
848 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
853 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
855 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
856 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
857 the original colours.
859 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
860 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
862 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
864 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
865 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
866 bug, and hence the test.
868 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
869 =========================
871 General (Xapian 1.4+)
872 ---------------------
874 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
876 Support for single argument date: queries
878 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
880 Support for blocking opens
882 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
883 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
885 Support for named queries
887 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
888 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
889 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
896 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
897 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
898 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
899 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
901 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
903 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
908 Support for compile time options
910 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
911 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
914 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
916 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
917 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
918 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
919 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
920 scripts to ignore it.
925 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
927 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
928 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
929 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
931 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
932 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
933 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
934 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
935 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
936 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
937 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
939 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
940 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
943 Make internal address completion customizable
945 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
946 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
947 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
948 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
951 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
953 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
954 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
955 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
956 completion for the current buffer.
958 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
959 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
960 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
964 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
965 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
966 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
967 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
968 will be added instead.
970 Face customization is easier
972 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
973 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
974 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
975 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
977 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
982 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
987 Go bindings moved to contrib
989 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
991 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
993 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
994 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
996 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
998 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
999 ===========================
1006 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
1007 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
1009 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
1011 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
1013 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
1014 ===========================
1019 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
1021 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
1026 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
1031 Use `env` to locate perl.
1036 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1038 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1040 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1042 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1044 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1045 =========================
1052 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1053 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1055 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1057 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1058 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1059 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1064 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1065 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1066 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1068 Command Line Interface
1069 ----------------------
1071 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1073 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1078 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1083 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1085 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1086 parts are now included in replies.
1088 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1089 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1090 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1091 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1093 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1095 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1097 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1099 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1100 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1101 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1102 forwards only the current message.
1104 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1106 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1107 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1108 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1109 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1110 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1111 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1112 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1113 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1116 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1117 longer generate empty buffers
1119 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1120 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1121 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1122 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1123 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1125 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1127 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1130 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1132 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1135 Address completion improvements
1137 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1138 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1139 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1140 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1141 interactive address completion.
1143 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1145 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1146 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1147 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1152 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1153 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1154 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1160 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1161 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1162 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1163 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1164 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1165 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1167 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1168 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1169 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1170 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1171 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1172 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1174 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1175 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1177 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1178 =========================
1183 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1186 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1188 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1189 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1190 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1192 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1193 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1195 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1196 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1197 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1199 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1201 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1202 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1203 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1204 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1205 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1206 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1211 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1212 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1215 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1216 option to configure.
1218 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1220 Command Line Interface
1221 ----------------------
1223 Database revision tracking
1225 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1226 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1227 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1228 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1230 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1232 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1233 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1234 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1235 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1236 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1237 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1238 manual page for further information.
1243 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1245 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1246 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1248 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1250 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1251 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1252 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1254 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1256 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1258 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1259 customization as well.
1261 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1263 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1265 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1267 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1269 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1270 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1271 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1272 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1274 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1276 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1277 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1278 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1279 this variable to 10000.
1284 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1285 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1287 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1289 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1290 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1291 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1292 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1293 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1294 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1295 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1296 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1297 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1300 Database revision tracking
1302 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1303 query parser and the new function
1304 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1306 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1308 Deprecated functions
1310 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1311 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1312 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1313 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1318 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1320 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1321 ===========================
1326 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1328 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1329 ===========================
1334 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1336 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1337 =========================
1339 Command-Line Interface
1340 ----------------------
1342 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1344 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1345 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1346 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1348 Path to gpg is now configurable
1350 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1351 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1356 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1358 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1363 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1368 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1373 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1375 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1376 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1378 New error logging facility
1380 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1381 output formerly printed to stderr.
1383 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1385 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1387 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1389 Fix for rounding of seconds
1394 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1396 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1397 documentation has been removed.
1399 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1401 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1402 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1407 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1408 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1409 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1414 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1415 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1416 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1417 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1418 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1419 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1422 git checkout config origin/config
1424 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1426 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1427 =========================
1432 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1433 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1434 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1435 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1436 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1437 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1438 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1440 Command-Line Interface
1441 ----------------------
1443 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1445 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1446 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1447 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1448 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1449 script callers should still check the return value.
1451 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1453 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1454 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1455 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1456 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1457 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1458 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1459 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1461 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1463 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1464 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1465 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1467 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1469 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1470 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1471 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1472 currently unmaintained.
1474 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1476 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1477 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1478 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1479 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1481 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1483 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1484 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1485 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1486 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1487 count of duplicate addresses.
1492 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1494 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1495 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1496 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1499 Improved handling of the unread tag
1501 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1502 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1503 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1504 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1505 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1506 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1507 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1509 Expanded default saved search settings
1511 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1512 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1514 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1516 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1517 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1518 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1520 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1522 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1523 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1524 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1525 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1526 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1527 the variable for details.
1532 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1534 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1535 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1536 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1537 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1539 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1541 Previously, library users were required to call
1542 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1543 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1544 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1545 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1546 too out of date for that API.
1548 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1550 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1551 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1552 atomic section will be aborted.
1554 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1555 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1557 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1559 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1560 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1561 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1562 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1563 messages into the same thread.
1568 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1569 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1570 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1571 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1572 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1573 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1578 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1579 from the config file. Use something like:
1583 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1584 "footer": "</body></html>",
1593 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1598 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1599 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1600 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1602 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1603 ===========================
1608 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1610 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1612 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1614 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1615 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1617 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1619 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1622 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1623 ===========================
1625 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1630 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1632 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1634 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1636 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1638 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1644 Use --quick when starting emacs
1646 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1648 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1650 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1652 Command-Line Interface
1653 ----------------------
1655 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1656 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1661 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1663 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1664 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1666 Fix for phrase indexing
1668 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1669 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1670 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1675 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1677 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1678 unintentionally removed.
1680 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1681 =========================
1686 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1687 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1688 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1689 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1690 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1691 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1692 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1693 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1694 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1700 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1702 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1703 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1704 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1705 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1706 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1707 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1708 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1709 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1711 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1713 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1714 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1715 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1716 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1719 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1721 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1722 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1723 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1724 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1725 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1726 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1727 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1732 Notmuch database upgrade
1734 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1735 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1736 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1737 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1738 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1739 released version of Notmuch before now.
1741 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1743 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1744 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1745 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1746 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1748 Message header parsing changes
1750 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1751 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1752 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1753 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1754 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1755 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1757 Command-Line Interface
1758 ----------------------
1760 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1762 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1764 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1766 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1768 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1770 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1771 user does not want it.
1773 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1775 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1776 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
1777 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1778 support formatted output.
1780 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1782 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1783 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1784 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1792 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1793 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1794 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1795 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1796 `~/.emacs` with these.
1798 Changed format for saved searches
1800 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1801 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1802 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1803 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1806 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1807 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1808 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1809 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1811 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1812 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1813 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1815 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1816 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1817 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1818 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1819 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1821 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1823 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1824 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1825 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1827 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1829 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1830 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1831 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1832 message had been unread).
1834 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1835 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1836 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1837 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1839 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1840 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1841 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1843 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1844 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1845 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1846 to tags already present.
1850 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1851 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1852 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1853 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1854 these differ from each other.
1855 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1857 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1859 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1860 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1861 for these Emacs versions.
1863 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1865 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1866 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1868 Bug fixes for sender identities
1870 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1871 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1872 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1874 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1876 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1877 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1878 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1879 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1881 Reply pushes mark before signature
1883 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1884 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1885 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1887 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1889 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1890 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1896 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1897 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1899 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1900 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1901 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1902 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1904 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1905 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1906 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1907 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1908 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1910 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
1912 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1913 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1915 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1916 =========================
1918 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1919 ---------------------------------------
1921 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1922 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1923 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1924 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1925 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1926 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1927 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1931 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1932 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1934 Command-Line Interface
1935 ----------------------
1937 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1939 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1940 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1941 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1942 print for each message.
1944 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1945 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1946 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1947 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1949 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1951 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1952 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1953 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1955 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1957 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1958 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1959 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1960 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1962 `notmuch compact` command
1964 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1965 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1966 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1967 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1968 move the compacted database into place.
1973 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1975 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1976 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1977 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1978 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1979 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1980 and multiple threads.
1982 Using `notmuch-tree`
1984 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1986 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1987 search, show and tree mode itself)
1989 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1992 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1993 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1995 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1997 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1998 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1999 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
2000 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
2001 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
2002 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
2003 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
2005 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
2007 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
2008 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
2009 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
2010 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
2011 thread when the search was performed.
2013 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
2015 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
2016 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
2017 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
2019 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
2021 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
2022 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
2025 Built-in help improvements
2027 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
2028 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
2029 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
2031 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
2033 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
2034 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
2035 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
2037 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2039 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2040 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2042 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2044 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2045 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2046 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2047 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2049 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2051 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2052 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2053 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2054 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2056 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2058 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2059 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2060 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2062 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2064 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2065 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2066 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2068 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2070 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2071 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2072 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2073 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2074 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2076 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2078 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2079 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2080 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2081 the body part of the message.
2086 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2087 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2088 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2090 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2091 =========================
2093 Command-Line Interface
2094 ----------------------
2096 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2098 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2099 folder and notmuch index.
2101 `notmuch count --batch` option
2103 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2104 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2106 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2108 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2109 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2110 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2113 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2115 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2116 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2117 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2118 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2119 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2122 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2124 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2125 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2127 Top level option to specify configuration file
2129 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2130 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2132 Bash command-line completion
2134 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2135 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2136 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2137 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2138 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2139 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2140 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2141 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2142 bash-completion package.
2144 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2149 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2151 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2152 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2153 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2154 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2155 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2156 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2157 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2158 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2160 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2162 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2163 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2164 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2166 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2168 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2169 previous thread in the search results.
2171 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2173 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2174 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2176 Faster search and show
2178 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2179 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2180 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2181 threads should show faster.
2185 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2186 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2187 in question was now removed from this release.
2192 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2193 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2198 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2200 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2201 ===========================
2206 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2208 Internal test framework changes
2209 -------------------------------
2211 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2212 being unimplemented.
2214 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2215 ===========================
2217 Internal test framework changes
2218 -------------------------------
2220 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2221 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2223 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2224 =========================
2229 Date range search support
2231 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2232 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2233 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2234 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2235 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2238 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2240 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2241 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2242 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2243 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2244 but may be removed in a future release.
2246 Command-Line Interface
2247 ----------------------
2249 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2251 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2252 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2254 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2256 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2257 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2258 officially deprecated.
2260 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2262 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2263 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2264 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2266 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2268 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2269 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2272 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2273 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2274 dump/restore format.
2276 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2278 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2279 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2280 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2282 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2284 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2285 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2286 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2288 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2290 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2291 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2292 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2293 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2298 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2300 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2301 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2302 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2303 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2305 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2307 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2308 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2309 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2310 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2311 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2312 the behavior of this, see
2313 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2314 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2316 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2317 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2318 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2320 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2322 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2323 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2326 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2328 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2329 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2330 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2331 simply displayed in place of the message.
2333 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2335 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2336 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2338 Improved text/calendar content handling
2340 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2341 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2342 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2343 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2345 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2347 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2348 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2349 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2350 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2352 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2354 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2355 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2356 for HTML email containing images.
2358 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2360 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2362 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2364 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2367 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2369 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2370 the point where it was.
2372 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2374 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2375 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2376 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2377 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2378 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2380 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2382 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2383 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2384 thread instead of the message id.
2386 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2387 -----------------------------
2389 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2390 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2391 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2392 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2393 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2394 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2395 further details and installation.
2400 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2402 Internal test framework changes
2403 -------------------------------
2405 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2407 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2408 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2409 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2410 can result in buggy behavior.
2412 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2413 =========================
2418 Maildir tag synchronization
2420 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2421 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2422 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2423 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2424 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2425 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2428 Command-Line Interface
2429 ----------------------
2431 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2432 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2433 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2434 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2435 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2441 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2443 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2445 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2446 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2447 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2449 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2451 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2452 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2453 span multiple lines.
2455 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2457 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2458 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2459 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2460 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2461 inside the result or message.
2463 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2465 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2466 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2468 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2469 user-specified formatting
2471 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2472 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2473 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2474 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2475 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2477 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2478 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2480 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2481 ===========================
2486 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2487 compilation error for this contrib package.
2489 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2490 ===========================
2495 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2497 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2498 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2499 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2500 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2502 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2503 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2506 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2507 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2508 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2509 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2512 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2514 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2517 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2518 =========================
2520 Command-Line Interface
2521 ----------------------
2525 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2526 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2527 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2528 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2530 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2531 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2532 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2533 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2537 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2538 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2540 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2541 tag in your query, for example:
2543 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2545 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2546 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2548 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2549 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2551 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2553 Raw show format changes
2555 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2556 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2557 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2558 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2559 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2560 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2561 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2562 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2564 Listing configuration items
2566 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2572 Changes to tagging interface
2574 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2575 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2576 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2577 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2578 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2579 for more information.
2581 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2582 may need to update in custom configurations.
2584 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2586 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2587 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2588 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2589 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2592 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2593 -----------------------------
2595 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2596 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2597 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2598 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2599 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2600 contrib/ from now on.
2605 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2606 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2608 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2609 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2611 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2612 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2613 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2615 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2616 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2618 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2619 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2620 returning the new database object or directory object.
2627 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2628 compatible with go 1.
2630 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2631 =========================
2633 Command-Line Interface
2634 ----------------------
2638 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2639 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2640 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2641 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2643 Mail store folder/file ignore
2645 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2646 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2647 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2649 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2650 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2652 Unified help and manual pages
2654 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2655 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2658 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2660 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2661 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2669 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2670 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2671 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2672 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2674 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2676 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2677 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2679 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2682 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2683 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2684 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2686 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2688 should be changed to:
2690 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2692 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2694 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2695 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2697 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2699 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2700 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2701 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2702 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2703 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2704 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2708 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2709 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2710 of Mailing List Archives.
2712 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2714 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2715 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2718 Show view archiving key binding changes
2720 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2721 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2722 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2723 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2724 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2727 Support text/calendar MIME type
2729 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2732 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2734 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2735 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2736 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2737 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2739 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2741 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2742 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2743 messages blue by default in the search view.
2747 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2748 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2755 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2758 Python bindings changes
2759 -----------------------
2761 Python 3.2 compatibility
2763 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2765 Added missing unicode conversions
2767 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2768 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2769 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2774 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2776 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2777 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2778 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2779 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2780 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2782 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2783 ===========================
2788 Fix error handling in python bindings
2790 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2791 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2792 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2793 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2795 Quote MML tags in replies
2797 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2798 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2799 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2800 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2801 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2802 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2803 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2804 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2806 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2807 =========================
2809 Command-Line Interface
2810 ----------------------
2814 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2815 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2816 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2817 importing new messages into the database.
2819 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2821 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2822 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2823 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2828 Automatic tag query optimization
2830 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2831 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2832 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2834 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2836 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2837 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2838 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2843 Reduction of memory leaks
2845 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2846 and fixed in this release.
2853 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2854 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2855 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2858 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2860 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2861 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2862 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2865 Improvements in saved search management
2867 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2868 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2869 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2871 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2873 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2874 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2875 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2877 New face for crypto parts headers
2879 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2880 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2881 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2884 Use space as default thousands separator
2886 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2887 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2888 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2890 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2891 buttonized id: links
2893 New function notmuch-show-advance
2895 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2896 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2897 be bound to SPC with:
2899 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2901 Various performance improvements
2906 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2907 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2910 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2911 ===========================
2916 Fix crash in python bindings
2918 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2919 for some, but not all users.
2921 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2922 ===========================
2927 Fix `--help` argument
2929 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2930 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2931 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2933 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2934 =========================
2936 New build and testing features
2937 ------------------------------
2939 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2940 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2941 prerequisites is improved.
2943 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2945 New command-line features
2946 -------------------------
2948 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2950 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2951 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2954 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2956 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2957 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2958 favour of using stdout.
2960 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2962 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2963 limit the number of results shown.
2965 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2967 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2968 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2971 New emacs UI features
2972 ---------------------
2974 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2976 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2977 starting with "tag:".
2979 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2981 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2982 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2984 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2986 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2988 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2990 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2991 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2996 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2998 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
3000 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
3001 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
3002 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
3003 requires a database rebuild:
3005 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3006 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3008 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3010 New collection of add-on tools
3011 ------------------------------
3013 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
3014 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
3015 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
3018 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
3020 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
3021 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
3022 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
3024 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
3025 ========================
3027 New, general features
3028 ---------------------
3030 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
3032 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
3033 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
3034 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
3035 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
3036 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3043 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3044 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3046 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3050 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3051 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3052 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3055 Python bindings changes
3056 -----------------------
3058 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3060 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3061 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3062 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3063 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3064 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3065 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3067 Ruby bindings changes
3068 ---------------------
3070 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3071 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3072 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3073 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3078 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3080 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3081 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3083 Reply formatting cleanup
3084 ------------------------
3086 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3087 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3089 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3090 ========================
3092 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3094 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3095 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3096 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3097 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3100 Improved Build system portability
3102 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3103 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3104 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3106 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3108 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3110 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3112 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3113 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3114 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3116 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3117 ========================
3119 Vim interface improvements
3120 --------------------------
3122 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3124 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3125 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3126 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3127 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3128 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3130 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3132 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3133 * fix compose temp file name
3135 Python Bindings changes
3136 -----------------------
3138 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3140 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3141 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3143 Build-System improvements
3144 -------------------------
3146 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3148 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3151 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3152 ==========================
3157 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3159 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3160 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3162 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3163 =======================
3165 New, general features
3166 ---------------------
3168 Folder-based searching
3170 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3171 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3172 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3176 For example, one might use things such as:
3182 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3183 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3185 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3186 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3187 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3188 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3190 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3191 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3192 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3195 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3196 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3198 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3200 Support for PGP/MIME
3202 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3203 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3204 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3206 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3208 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3209 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3211 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3212 notmuch will receive these tags.
3214 New command-line features
3215 -------------------------
3217 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3219 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3220 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3222 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3224 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3225 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3226 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3228 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3230 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3231 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3232 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3233 which parts a signature part applies).
3235 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3237 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3238 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3239 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3240 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3241 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3244 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3246 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3247 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3248 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3249 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3250 by translating it internally to the new call.
3252 Performance improvements
3253 ------------------------
3255 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3257 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3258 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3259 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3261 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3262 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3264 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3266 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3267 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3268 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3270 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3271 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3272 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3273 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3275 Faster initial indexing
3277 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3278 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3279 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3281 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3283 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3284 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3285 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3286 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3288 New emacs-interface features
3289 ----------------------------
3291 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3293 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3294 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3295 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3296 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3297 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3298 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3300 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3302 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3303 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3304 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3305 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3307 User-selectable From address
3309 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3310 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3311 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3312 will prompt for the from address to use.
3314 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3315 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3316 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3318 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3319 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3320 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3323 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3325 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3326 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3328 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3330 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3332 ----- Original Message -----
3334 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3335 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3336 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3337 citations work much like conventional citations.
3339 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3341 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3342 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3343 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3344 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3345 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3347 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3348 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3350 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3352 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3353 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3354 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3356 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3358 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3359 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3360 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3361 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3362 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3364 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3366 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3369 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3371 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3373 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3375 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3378 Vim interface improvements
3379 --------------------------
3381 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3383 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3384 * Implementing archive in show view
3385 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3386 * Add delete commands
3389 Bindings improvements
3390 ---------------------
3392 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3394 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3395 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3397 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3399 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3403 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3404 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3405 `list(Messages)` works now
3406 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3408 These allow, for example:
3410 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3412 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3414 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3420 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3422 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3425 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3427 New build-system features
3428 -------------------------
3430 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3432 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3433 the configure script from some other directory:
3440 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3442 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3443 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3444 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3445 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3446 manual invocation of configure.
3448 New test-suite feature
3449 ----------------------
3451 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3453 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3454 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3455 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3456 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3457 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3460 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3462 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3463 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3464 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3465 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3466 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3467 are updated to take advantage of this.
3469 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3471 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3472 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3473 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3474 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3480 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3482 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3483 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3484 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3486 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3488 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3490 to:user@elsewhere.com
3492 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3494 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3496 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3498 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3499 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3500 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3503 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3504 from the Received headers in some cases
3506 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3507 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3509 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3511 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3513 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3515 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3516 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3517 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3519 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3520 -------------------------
3522 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3524 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3525 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3526 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3528 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3530 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3531 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3532 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3535 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3537 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3538 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3539 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3540 fixed to avoid this bug.
3542 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3544 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3545 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3547 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3548 ========================
3550 New, general features
3551 ---------------------
3553 Maildir-flag synchronization
3555 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3556 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3565 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3567 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3568 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3569 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3570 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3572 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3573 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3574 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3575 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3578 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3580 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3581 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3582 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3584 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3585 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3587 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3588 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3590 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3591 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3592 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3594 New library features
3595 --------------------
3597 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3599 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3600 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3601 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3602 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3604 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3605 message with the new function:
3607 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3609 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3610 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3611 over all available filenames for a given message.
3613 New command-line features
3614 -------------------------
3616 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3618 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3619 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3620 access to the mail store itself.
3622 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3623 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3624 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3625 name of a script containing:
3627 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3629 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3630 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3636 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3638 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3640 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3642 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3643 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3644 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3645 now produces nothing).
3647 Emacs interface improvements
3648 ----------------------------
3650 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3652 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3654 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3656 Display current thread subject in a header line
3658 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3660 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3662 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3663 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3664 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3665 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3666 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3667 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3668 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3670 Vim interface improvements
3671 --------------------------
3673 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3675 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3676 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3682 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3684 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3685 ========================
3687 New command-line features
3688 -------------------------
3690 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3692 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3693 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3694 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3696 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3697 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3698 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3699 scripts. For example:
3701 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3702 <operations-on> "$file"
3705 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3707 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3708 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3709 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3710 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3711 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3712 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3714 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3716 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3717 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3718 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3719 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3721 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3723 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3724 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3725 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3726 default rather than Bcc.
3728 New library features
3729 --------------------
3731 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3733 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3734 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3739 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3741 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3742 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3743 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3744 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3745 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3746 notmuch customize interface.
3748 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3750 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3751 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3752 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3753 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3755 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3757 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3758 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3759 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3760 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3762 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3764 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3765 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3766 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3767 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3768 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3769 notmuch customize interface.
3771 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3773 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3774 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3775 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3776 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3777 notmuch customize interface.
3779 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3781 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3782 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3783 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3784 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3787 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3789 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3790 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3791 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3794 New build-system features
3795 -------------------------
3797 Various portability fixes have been applied
3799 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3800 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3801 more portable than ever before.
3803 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3805 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3806 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3807 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3809 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3810 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3811 automatically run ldconfig.
3813 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3814 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3815 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3817 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3818 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3819 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3820 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3822 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3824 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3825 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3826 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3827 used in the resulting Makefile.
3829 New test-suite features
3830 -----------------------
3832 New modularization of test suite
3834 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3835 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3836 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3837 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3838 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3839 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3840 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3841 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3843 New testing of emacs interface
3845 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3846 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3847 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3848 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3849 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3850 database via the FCC setting.
3855 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3857 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3858 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3859 persistent error of the form:
3861 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3863 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3864 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3866 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3868 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3869 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3870 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3872 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3874 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3875 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3876 parsing the notmuch results).
3878 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3880 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3883 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3884 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3885 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3890 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3892 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3893 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3894 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3895 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3896 the emacs interface.
3898 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3900 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3901 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3902 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3904 Python-binding fixes
3905 --------------------
3907 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3909 Debian-specific fixes
3910 ---------------------
3912 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3914 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3915 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3916 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3919 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3920 ==========================
3925 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3927 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3928 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3929 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3930 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3932 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3934 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3935 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3936 want notmuch to crash.
3941 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3943 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3944 directory does not exist
3949 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3951 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3952 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3954 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3955 ========================
3957 New command-line features
3958 -------------------------
3960 User-configurable tags for new messages
3962 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3963 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3964 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3965 to specify this value.
3967 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3969 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3970 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3971 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3973 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3975 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3976 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3978 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3980 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3981 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3982 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3983 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3984 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3987 Indication of author names that match a search
3989 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3990 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3991 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3992 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3993 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3994 messages in the thread are listed first.
3996 New: Python bindings
3997 --------------------
3999 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
4000 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
4001 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
4002 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
4004 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
4005 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
4006 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
4009 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
4010 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
4011 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
4013 Emacs interface improvements
4014 ----------------------------
4016 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
4018 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
4019 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
4020 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
4021 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
4022 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
4023 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
4024 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
4025 but without any of the disadvantages).
4027 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
4028 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
4029 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
4032 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
4033 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
4034 instead running something like:
4036 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4038 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4039 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4040 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4043 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4045 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4046 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4047 tweaked by the user.
4049 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4050 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4051 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4054 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4055 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4056 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4059 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4061 This support currently relies on an external program,
4062 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4063 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4064 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4065 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4066 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4069 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4070 notmuch) is available via:
4072 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4074 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4075 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4076 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4078 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4080 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4081 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4082 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4083 making this automatic in a future release.
4085 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4087 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4088 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4089 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4090 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4091 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4092 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4095 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4097 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4098 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4099 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4101 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4103 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4104 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4105 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4107 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4108 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4109 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4110 other representation.
4112 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4113 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4116 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4118 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4119 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4120 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4122 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4123 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4124 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4126 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4128 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4129 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4130 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4131 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4132 to display the search result.
4134 More flexible handling of header visibility
4136 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4137 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4138 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4139 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4140 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4141 with the 'h' keybinding.
4143 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4144 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4145 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4147 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4149 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4151 Customizable formatting of search results
4153 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4154 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4155 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4157 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4159 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4161 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4166 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4168 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4169 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4170 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4171 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4177 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4179 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4180 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4182 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4184 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4185 accept are now all accepted.
4190 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4192 Better display of output from failed tests
4194 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4195 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4197 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4198 ========================
4200 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4201 detailed release notes this time!
4203 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4204 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4206 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4207 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4208 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4209 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4216 Better guessing of From: header
4218 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4219 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4220 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4221 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4222 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4225 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4227 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4228 guaranteed to match all messages.
4230 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4232 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4233 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4234 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4235 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4236 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4239 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4242 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4243 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4244 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4245 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4250 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4252 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4253 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4254 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4255 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4257 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4259 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4261 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4262 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4263 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4265 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4267 Previously, the user might see:
4269 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4273 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4275 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4276 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4277 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4278 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4280 Emacs client features
4281 ---------------------
4283 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4285 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4286 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4287 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4288 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4289 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4291 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4294 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4295 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4296 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4297 search with the '*' binding.
4299 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4301 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4302 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4305 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4307 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4308 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4309 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4311 Build-system features
4312 ---------------------
4314 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4316 Add support to configure for many standard options
4318 We include actual support for:
4320 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4322 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4324 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4325 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4327 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4328 separate "make install-emacs"
4330 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4332 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4333 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4334 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4336 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4339 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4340 ========================
4342 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4344 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4345 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4347 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4348 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4349 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4350 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4351 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4352 tags from messages in a thread.
4359 indent-tabs-mode: nil