1 Notmuch 0.23 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
9 Support for single argument date: queries
11 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
13 Support for blocking opens
15 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
16 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
18 Support for named queries
20 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
21 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
22 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
29 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
30 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
31 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
32 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
34 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
36 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
41 Support for compile time options
43 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
44 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
47 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
49 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
50 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
51 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
52 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
58 Face customization is easier
60 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
61 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
62 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
63 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
65 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
70 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
75 Go bindings moved to contrib
77 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
79 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
81 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
82 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
84 The same issue occured with sort modes.
86 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
87 ===========================
94 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
95 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
97 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
99 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
101 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
102 ===========================
107 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
109 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
114 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
119 Use `env` to locate perl.
124 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
126 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
128 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
130 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
132 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
133 =========================
140 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
141 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
143 Limited support for S/MIME messages
145 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
146 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
147 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
152 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
153 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
154 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
156 Command Line Interface
157 ----------------------
159 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
161 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
166 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
171 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
173 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
174 parts are now included in replies.
176 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
177 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
178 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
179 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
181 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
183 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
185 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
187 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
188 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
189 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
190 forwards only the current message.
192 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
194 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
195 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
196 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
197 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
198 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
199 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
200 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
201 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
204 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
205 longer generate empty buffers
207 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
208 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
209 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
210 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
211 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
213 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
215 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
218 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
220 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
223 Address completion improvements
225 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
226 you previously configured one, customize the variable
227 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
228 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
229 interactive address completion.
231 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
233 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
234 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
235 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
240 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
241 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
242 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
248 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
249 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
250 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
251 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
252 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
253 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
255 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
256 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
257 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
258 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
259 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
260 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
262 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
263 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
265 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
266 =========================
271 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
274 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
276 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
277 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
278 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
280 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
281 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
283 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
284 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
285 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
287 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
289 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
290 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
291 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
292 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
293 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
294 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
299 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
300 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
303 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
306 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
308 Command Line Interface
309 ----------------------
311 Database revision tracking
313 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
314 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
315 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
316 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
318 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
320 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
321 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
322 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
323 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
324 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
325 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
326 manual page for further information.
331 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
333 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
334 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
336 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
338 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
339 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
340 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
342 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
344 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
346 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
347 customization as well.
349 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
351 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
353 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
355 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
357 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
358 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
359 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
360 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
362 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
364 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
365 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
366 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
367 this variable to 10000.
372 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
373 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
375 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
377 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
378 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
379 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
380 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
381 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
382 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
383 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
384 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
385 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
388 Database revision tracking
390 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
391 query parser and the new function
392 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
394 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
398 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
399 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
400 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
401 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
406 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
408 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
409 ===========================
414 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
416 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
417 ===========================
422 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
424 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
425 =========================
427 Command-Line Interface
428 ----------------------
430 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
432 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
433 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
434 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
436 Path to gpg is now configurable
438 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
439 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
444 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
446 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
451 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
456 Support messages without Message-IDs.
461 Undeprecate single message mboxes
463 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
464 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
466 New error logging facility
468 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
469 output formerly printed to stderr.
471 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
473 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
475 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
477 Fix for rounding of seconds
482 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
484 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
485 docmumentation has been removed.
487 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
489 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
490 some material from the relicensed wiki.
495 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
496 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
497 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
502 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
503 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
504 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
505 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
506 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
507 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
510 git checkout config origin/config
512 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
514 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
515 =========================
520 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
521 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
522 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
523 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
524 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
525 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
526 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
528 Command-Line Interface
529 ----------------------
531 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
533 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
534 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
535 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
536 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
537 script callers should still check the return value.
539 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
541 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
542 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
543 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
544 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
545 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
546 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
547 and returning success even if indexing fails).
549 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
551 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
552 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
553 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
555 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
557 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
558 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
559 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
560 currently unmaintained.
562 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
564 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
565 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
566 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
567 have at least `N` files associated with them.
569 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
571 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
572 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
573 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
574 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
575 count of duplicate addresses.
580 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
582 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
583 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
584 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
587 Improved handling of the unread tag
589 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
590 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
591 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
592 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
593 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
594 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
595 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
597 Expanded default saved search settings
599 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
600 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
602 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
604 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
605 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
606 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
608 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
610 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
611 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
612 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
613 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
614 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
615 the variable for details.
620 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
622 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
623 Representing these independently of the database version number will
624 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
625 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
627 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
629 Previously, library users were required to call
630 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
631 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
632 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
633 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
634 too out of date for that API.
636 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
638 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
639 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
640 atomic section will be aborted.
642 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
643 `notmuch_database_destroy`
645 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
647 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
648 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
649 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
650 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
651 messages into the same thread.
656 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
657 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
658 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
659 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
660 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
661 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
666 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
667 from the config file. Use something like:
671 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
672 "footer": "</body></html>",
681 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
686 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
687 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
688 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
690 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
691 ===========================
696 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
698 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
700 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
702 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
703 structure for signatures changed slightly.
705 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
707 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
710 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
711 ===========================
713 This is a bug fix and portability release.
718 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
720 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
722 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
724 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
726 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
732 Use --quick when starting emacs
734 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
736 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
738 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
740 Command-Line Interface
741 ----------------------
743 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
744 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
749 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
751 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
752 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
754 Fix for phrase indexing
756 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
757 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
758 will affect only newly indexed messages.
763 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
765 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
766 unintentionally removed.
768 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
769 =========================
774 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
775 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
776 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
777 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
778 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
779 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
780 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
781 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
782 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
788 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
790 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
791 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
792 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
793 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
794 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
795 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
796 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
797 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
799 There is a new `path:` search prefix
801 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
802 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
803 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
804 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
807 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
809 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
810 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
811 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
812 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
813 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
814 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
815 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
820 Notmuch database upgrade
822 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
823 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
824 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
825 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
826 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
827 released version of Notmuch before now.
829 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
831 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
832 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
833 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
834 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
836 Message header parsing changes
838 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
839 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
840 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
841 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
842 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
843 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
845 Command-Line Interface
846 ----------------------
848 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
850 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
852 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
854 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
856 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
858 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
859 user does not want it.
861 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
863 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
864 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
865 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
866 support formatted output.
868 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
870 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
871 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
872 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
880 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
881 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
882 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
883 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
884 `~/.emacs` with these.
886 Changed format for saved searches
888 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
889 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
890 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
891 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
894 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
895 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
896 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
897 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
899 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
900 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
901 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
903 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
904 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
905 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
906 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
907 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
909 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
911 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
912 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
913 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
915 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
917 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
918 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
919 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
920 message had been unread).
922 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
923 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
924 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
925 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
927 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
928 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
929 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
931 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
932 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
933 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
934 to tags already present.
938 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
939 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
940 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
941 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
942 these differ from each other.
943 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
945 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
947 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
948 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
949 for these Emacs versions.
951 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
953 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
954 newlines before calling notmuch count.
956 Bug fixes for sender identities
958 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
959 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
960 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
962 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
964 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
965 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
966 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
967 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
969 Reply pushes mark before signature
971 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
972 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
973 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
975 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
977 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
978 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
984 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
985 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
987 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
988 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
989 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
990 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
992 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
993 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
994 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
995 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
996 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
998 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
1000 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1001 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1003 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1004 =========================
1006 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1007 ---------------------------------------
1009 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1010 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1011 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1012 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1013 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1014 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1015 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1019 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1020 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1022 Command-Line Interface
1023 ----------------------
1025 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1027 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1028 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1029 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1030 print for each message.
1032 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1033 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1034 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1035 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1037 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1039 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1040 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1041 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1043 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1045 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1046 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1047 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1048 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1050 `notmuch compact` command
1052 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1053 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1054 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1055 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1056 move the compacted database into place.
1061 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1063 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1064 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1065 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1066 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1067 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1068 and multiple threads.
1070 Using `notmuch-tree`
1072 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1074 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1075 search, show and tree mode itself)
1077 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1080 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1081 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1083 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1085 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1086 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1087 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1088 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1089 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1090 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1091 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1093 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1095 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1096 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1097 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1098 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1099 thread when the search was performed.
1101 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1103 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1104 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1105 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1107 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1109 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1110 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1113 Built-in help improvements
1115 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1116 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1117 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1119 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1121 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1122 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1123 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1125 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1127 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1128 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1130 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1132 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1133 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1134 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1135 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1137 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1139 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1140 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1141 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1142 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1144 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1146 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1147 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1148 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1150 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1152 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1153 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1154 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1156 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1158 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1159 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1160 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1161 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1162 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1164 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1166 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1167 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1168 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1169 the body part of the message.
1174 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1175 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1176 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1178 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1179 =========================
1181 Command-Line Interface
1182 ----------------------
1184 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1186 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1187 folder and notmuch index.
1189 `notmuch count --batch` option
1191 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1192 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1194 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1196 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1197 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1198 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1201 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1203 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1204 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1205 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1206 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1207 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1210 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1212 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1213 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1215 Top level option to specify configuration file
1217 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1218 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1220 Bash command-line completion
1222 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1223 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1224 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1225 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1226 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1227 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1228 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1229 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1230 bash-completion package.
1232 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1237 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1239 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1240 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1241 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1242 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1243 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1244 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1245 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1246 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1248 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1250 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1251 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1252 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1254 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1256 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1257 previous thread in the search results.
1259 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1261 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1262 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1264 Faster search and show
1266 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1267 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1268 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1269 threads should show faster.
1273 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1274 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1275 in question was now removed from this release.
1280 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1281 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1286 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1288 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1289 ===========================
1294 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1296 Internal test framework changes
1297 -------------------------------
1299 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1300 being unimplemented.
1302 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1303 ===========================
1305 Internal test framework changes
1306 -------------------------------
1308 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1309 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1311 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1312 =========================
1317 Date range search support
1319 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1320 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1321 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1322 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1323 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1326 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1328 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1329 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1330 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1331 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1332 but may be removed in a future release.
1334 Command-Line Interface
1335 ----------------------
1337 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1339 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1340 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1342 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1344 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1345 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1346 officially deprecated.
1348 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1350 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1351 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1352 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1354 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1356 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1357 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1360 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1361 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1362 dump/restore format.
1364 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1366 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1367 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1368 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1370 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1372 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1373 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1374 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1376 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1378 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1379 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1380 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1381 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1386 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1388 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1389 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1390 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1391 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1393 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1395 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1396 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1397 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1398 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1399 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1400 the behavior of this, see
1401 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1402 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1404 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1405 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1406 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1408 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1410 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1411 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1414 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1416 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1417 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1418 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1419 simply displayed in place of the message.
1421 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1423 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1424 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1426 Improved text/calendar content handling
1428 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1429 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1430 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1431 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1433 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1435 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1436 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1437 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1438 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1440 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1442 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1443 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1444 for HTML email containing images.
1446 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1448 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1450 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1452 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1455 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1457 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1458 the point where it was.
1460 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1462 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1463 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1464 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1465 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1466 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1468 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1470 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1471 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1472 thread instead of the message id.
1474 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1475 -----------------------------
1477 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1478 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1479 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1480 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1481 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1482 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1483 further details and installation.
1488 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1490 Internal test framework changes
1491 -------------------------------
1493 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1495 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1496 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1497 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1498 can result in buggy behavior.
1500 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1501 =========================
1506 Maildir tag synchronization
1508 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1509 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1510 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1511 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1512 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1513 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1516 Command-Line Interface
1517 ----------------------
1519 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1520 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1521 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1522 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1523 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1529 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1531 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1533 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1534 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1535 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1537 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1539 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1540 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1541 span multiple lines.
1543 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1545 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1546 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1547 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1548 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1549 inside the result or message.
1551 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1553 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1554 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1556 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1557 user-specified formatting
1559 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1560 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1561 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1562 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1563 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1565 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1566 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1568 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1569 ===========================
1574 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1575 compilation error for this contrib package.
1577 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1578 ===========================
1583 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1585 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1586 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1587 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1588 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1590 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1591 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1594 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1595 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1596 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1597 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1600 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1602 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1605 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1606 =========================
1608 Command-Line Interface
1609 ----------------------
1613 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1614 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1615 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1616 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1618 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1619 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1620 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1621 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1625 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1626 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1628 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1629 tag in your query, for example:
1631 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1633 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1634 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1636 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1637 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1639 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1641 Raw show format changes
1643 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1644 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1645 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1646 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1647 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1648 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1649 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1650 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1652 Listing configuration items
1654 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1660 Changes to tagging interface
1662 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1663 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1664 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1665 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1666 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1667 for more information.
1669 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1670 may need to update in custom configurations.
1672 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1674 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1675 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1676 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1677 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1680 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1681 -----------------------------
1683 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1684 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1685 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1686 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1687 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1688 contrib/ from now on.
1693 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1694 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1696 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1697 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1699 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1700 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1701 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1703 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1704 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1706 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1707 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1708 returning the new database object or directory object.
1715 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1716 compatible with go 1.
1718 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1719 =========================
1721 Command-Line Interface
1722 ----------------------
1726 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1727 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1728 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1729 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1731 Mail store folder/file ignore
1733 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1734 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1735 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1737 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1738 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1740 Unified help and manual pages
1742 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1743 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1746 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1748 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1749 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1757 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1758 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1759 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1760 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1762 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1764 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1765 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1767 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1770 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1771 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1772 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1774 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1776 should be changed to:
1778 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1780 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1782 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1783 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1785 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1787 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1788 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1789 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1790 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1791 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1792 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1796 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1797 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1798 of Mailing List Archives.
1800 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1802 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1803 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1806 Show view archiving key binding changes
1808 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1809 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1810 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1811 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1812 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1815 Support text/calendar MIME type
1817 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1820 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1822 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1823 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1824 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1825 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1827 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1829 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1830 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1831 messages blue by default in the search view.
1835 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1836 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1843 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1846 Python bindings changes
1847 -----------------------
1849 Python 3.2 compatibility
1851 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1853 Added missing unicode conversions
1855 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1856 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1857 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1862 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1864 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1865 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1866 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1867 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1868 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1870 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1871 ===========================
1876 Fix error handling in python bindings
1878 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1879 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1880 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1881 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1883 Quote MML tags in replies
1885 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1886 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1887 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1888 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1889 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1890 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1891 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1892 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1894 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1895 =========================
1897 Command-Line Interface
1898 ----------------------
1902 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1903 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1904 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1905 importing new messages into the database.
1907 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1909 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1910 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1911 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1916 Automatic tag query optimization
1918 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1919 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1920 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1922 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1924 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1925 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1926 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1931 Reduction of memory leaks
1933 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1934 and fixed in this release.
1941 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1942 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1943 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1946 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1948 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1949 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1950 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1953 Improvements in saved search management
1955 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1956 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1957 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1959 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1961 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1962 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1963 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1965 New face for crypto parts headers
1967 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1968 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1969 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1972 Use space as default thousands separator
1974 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1975 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1976 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1978 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1979 buttonized id: links
1981 New function notmuch-show-advance
1983 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1984 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1985 be bound to SPC with:
1987 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1989 Various performance improvements
1994 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1995 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1998 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1999 ===========================
2004 Fix crash in python bindings
2006 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2007 for some, but not all users.
2009 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2010 ===========================
2015 Fix `--help` argument
2017 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2018 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2019 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2021 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2022 =========================
2024 New build and testing features
2025 ------------------------------
2027 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2028 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2029 prerequisites is improved.
2031 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2033 New command-line features
2034 -------------------------
2036 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2038 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2039 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2042 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2044 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2045 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2046 favour of using stdout.
2048 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2050 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2051 limit the number of results shown.
2053 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2055 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2056 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2059 New emacs UI features
2060 ---------------------
2062 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2064 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2065 starting with "tag:".
2067 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2069 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2070 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2072 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2074 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2076 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2078 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2079 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2084 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2086 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2088 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2089 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2090 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2091 requires a database rebuild:
2093 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2094 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2096 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2098 New collection of add-on tools
2099 ------------------------------
2101 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2102 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2103 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2106 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2108 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2109 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
2110 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2112 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2113 ========================
2115 New, general features
2116 ---------------------
2118 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2120 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2121 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2122 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2123 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2124 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2131 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2132 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2134 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2138 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2139 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2140 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2143 Python bindings changes
2144 -----------------------
2146 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2148 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2149 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2150 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2151 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2152 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2153 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2155 Ruby bindings changes
2156 ---------------------
2158 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2159 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2160 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2161 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2166 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2168 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2169 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2171 Reply formatting cleanup
2172 ------------------------
2174 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2175 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2177 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2178 ========================
2180 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2182 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2183 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2184 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2185 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2188 Improved Build system portability
2190 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2191 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2192 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2194 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2196 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2198 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2200 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2201 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2202 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2204 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2205 ========================
2207 Vim interface improvements
2208 --------------------------
2210 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2212 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2213 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2214 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2215 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2216 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2218 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2220 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2221 * fix compose temp file name
2223 Python Bindings changes
2224 -----------------------
2226 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2228 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2229 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2231 Build-System improvements
2232 -------------------------
2234 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2236 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2239 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2240 ==========================
2245 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2247 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2248 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2250 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2251 =======================
2253 New, general features
2254 ---------------------
2256 Folder-based searching
2258 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2259 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2260 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2264 For example, one might use things such as:
2270 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2271 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2273 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2274 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2275 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2276 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2278 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2279 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2280 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2283 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2284 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2286 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2288 Support for PGP/MIME
2290 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2291 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2292 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2294 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2296 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2297 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2299 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2300 notmuch will receive these tags.
2302 New command-line features
2303 -------------------------
2305 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2307 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2308 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2310 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2312 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2313 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2314 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2316 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2318 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2319 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2320 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2321 which parts a signature part applies).
2323 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2325 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2326 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2327 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2328 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2329 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2332 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2334 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2335 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2336 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2337 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2338 by translating it internally to the new call.
2340 Performance improvements
2341 ------------------------
2343 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2345 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2346 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2347 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2349 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2350 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2352 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2354 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2355 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2356 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2358 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2359 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2360 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2361 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2363 Faster initial indexing
2365 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2366 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2367 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2369 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2371 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2372 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2373 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2374 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2376 New emacs-interface features
2377 ----------------------------
2379 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2381 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2382 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2383 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2384 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2385 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2386 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2388 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2390 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2391 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2392 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2393 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2395 User-selectable From address
2397 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2398 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2399 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2400 will prompt for the from address to use.
2402 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2403 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2404 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2406 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2407 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2408 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2411 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2413 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2414 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2416 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2418 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2420 ----- Original Message -----
2422 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2423 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2424 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2425 citations work much like conventional citations.
2427 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2429 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2430 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2431 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2432 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2433 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2435 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2436 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2438 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2440 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2441 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2442 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2444 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2446 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2447 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2448 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2449 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2450 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2452 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2454 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2457 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2459 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2461 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2463 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2466 Vim interface improvements
2467 --------------------------
2469 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2471 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2472 * Implementing archive in show view
2473 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2474 * Add delete commands
2477 Bindings improvements
2478 ---------------------
2480 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2482 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2483 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2485 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2487 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
2491 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2492 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2493 `list(Messages)` works now
2494 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2496 These allow, for example:
2498 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2500 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2502 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2508 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2510 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2513 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2515 New build-system features
2516 -------------------------
2518 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2520 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2521 the configure script from some other directory:
2528 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2530 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2531 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2532 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2533 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2534 manual invocation of configure.
2536 New test-suite feature
2537 ----------------------
2539 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2541 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2542 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2543 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2544 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2545 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2548 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2550 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2551 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2552 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2553 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2554 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2555 are updated to take advantage of this.
2557 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2559 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2560 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2561 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2562 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2568 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2570 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2571 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2572 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2574 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2576 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2578 to:user@elsewhere.com
2580 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2582 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2584 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2586 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2587 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2588 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2591 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2592 from the Received headers in some cases
2594 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2595 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2597 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2599 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2601 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2603 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2604 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2605 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2607 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2608 -------------------------
2610 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2612 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2613 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2614 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2616 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2618 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2619 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2620 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2623 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2625 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2626 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2627 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2628 fixed to avoid this bug.
2630 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2632 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2633 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2635 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2636 ========================
2638 New, general features
2639 ---------------------
2641 Maildir-flag synchronization
2643 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2644 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2653 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2655 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2656 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2657 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2658 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2660 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2661 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2662 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2663 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2666 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2668 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2669 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2670 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2672 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2673 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2675 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2676 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2678 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2679 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2680 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2682 New library features
2683 --------------------
2685 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2687 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2688 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2689 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2690 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2692 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2693 message with the new function:
2695 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2697 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2698 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2699 over all available filenames for a given message.
2701 New command-line features
2702 -------------------------
2704 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2706 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2707 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2708 access to the mail store itself.
2710 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2711 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2712 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2713 name of a script containing:
2715 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2717 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2718 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2724 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2726 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2728 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2730 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2731 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2732 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2733 now produces nothing).
2735 Emacs interface improvements
2736 ----------------------------
2738 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2740 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2742 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2744 Display current thread subject in a header line
2746 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2748 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2750 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2751 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2752 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2753 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2754 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2755 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2756 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2758 Vim interface improvements
2759 --------------------------
2761 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2763 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2764 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2770 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2772 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2773 ========================
2775 New command-line features
2776 -------------------------
2778 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2780 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2781 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2782 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2784 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2785 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2786 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2787 scripts. For example:
2789 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2790 <operations-on> "$file"
2793 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2795 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2796 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2797 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2798 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2799 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2800 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2802 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2804 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2805 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2806 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2807 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2809 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2811 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2812 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2813 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2814 default rather than Bcc.
2816 New library features
2817 --------------------
2819 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2821 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2822 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2827 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2829 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2830 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2831 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2832 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2833 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2834 notmuch customize interface.
2836 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2838 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2839 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2840 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2841 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2843 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2845 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2846 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2847 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2848 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2850 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2852 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2853 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2854 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2855 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2856 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2857 notmuch customize interface.
2859 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2861 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2862 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2863 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2864 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2865 notmuch customize interface.
2867 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2869 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2870 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2871 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2872 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2875 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2877 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2878 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2879 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2882 New build-system features
2883 -------------------------
2885 Various portability fixes have been applied
2887 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2888 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2889 more portable than ever before.
2891 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2893 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2894 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2895 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2897 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2898 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2899 automatically run ldconfig.
2901 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2902 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2903 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2905 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2906 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2907 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2908 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2910 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2912 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2913 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2914 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2915 used in the resulting Makefile.
2917 New test-suite features
2918 -----------------------
2920 New modularization of test suite
2922 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2923 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2924 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2925 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2926 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2927 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2928 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2929 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2931 New testing of emacs interface
2933 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2934 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2935 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2936 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2937 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2938 database via the FCC setting.
2943 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2945 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2946 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2947 persistent error of the form:
2949 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2951 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2952 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2954 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2956 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2957 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2958 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2960 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2962 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2963 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2964 parsing the notmuch results).
2966 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2968 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2971 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2972 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2973 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2978 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2980 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2981 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2982 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2983 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2984 the emacs interface.
2986 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2988 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2989 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2990 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2992 Python-binding fixes
2993 --------------------
2995 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2997 Debian-specific fixes
2998 ---------------------
3000 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3002 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3003 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3004 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3007 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3008 ==========================
3013 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3015 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3016 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3017 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3018 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3020 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3022 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3023 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3024 want notmuch to crash.
3029 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3031 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3032 directory does not exist
3037 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3039 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3040 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3042 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3043 ========================
3045 New command-line features
3046 -------------------------
3048 User-configurable tags for new messages
3050 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3051 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3052 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3053 to specify this value.
3055 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3057 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3058 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3059 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3061 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3063 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3064 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3066 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3068 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3069 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3070 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3071 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3072 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3075 Indication of author names that match a search
3077 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3078 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3079 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3080 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3081 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3082 messages in the thread are listed first.
3084 New: Python bindings
3085 --------------------
3087 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3088 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3089 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3090 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3092 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3093 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3094 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3097 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3098 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3099 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3101 Emacs interface improvements
3102 ----------------------------
3104 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3106 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3107 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3108 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3109 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3110 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3111 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3112 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3113 but without any of the disadvantages).
3115 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3116 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3117 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3120 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3121 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3122 instead running something like:
3124 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3126 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3127 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3128 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3131 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3133 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3134 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3135 tweaked by the user.
3137 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3138 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3139 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3142 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3143 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3144 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3147 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3149 This support currently relies on an external program,
3150 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3151 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3152 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3153 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3154 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3157 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3158 notmuch) is available via:
3160 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3162 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3163 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3164 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3166 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3168 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3169 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3170 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3171 making this automatic in a future release.
3173 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3175 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3176 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3177 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3178 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3179 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3180 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3183 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3185 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3186 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3187 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3189 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3191 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3192 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3193 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3195 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3196 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3197 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3198 other representation.
3200 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3201 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3204 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3206 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3207 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3208 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3210 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3211 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3212 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3214 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3216 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3217 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3218 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3219 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3220 to display the search result.
3222 More flexible handling of header visibility
3224 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3225 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3226 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3227 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3228 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3229 with the 'h' keybinding.
3231 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3232 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3233 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3235 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3237 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3239 Customizable formatting of search results
3241 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3242 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3243 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3245 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3247 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3249 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3254 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3256 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3257 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3258 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3259 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3265 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3267 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3268 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3270 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3272 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3273 accept are now all accepted.
3278 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3280 Better display of output from failed tests
3282 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3283 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3285 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3286 ========================
3288 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3289 detailed release notes this time!
3291 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3292 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3294 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3295 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3296 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3297 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3304 Better guessing of From: header
3306 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3307 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3308 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3309 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3310 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3313 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3315 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3316 guaranteed to match all messages.
3318 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3320 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3321 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3322 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3323 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3324 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3327 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3330 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3331 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3332 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3333 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3338 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3340 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3341 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3342 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3343 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3345 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3347 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3349 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3350 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3351 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3353 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3355 Previously, the user might see:
3357 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3361 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3363 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3364 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3365 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3366 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3368 Emacs client features
3369 ---------------------
3371 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3373 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3374 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3375 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3376 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3377 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3379 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3382 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3383 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3384 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3385 search with the '*' binding.
3387 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3389 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3390 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3393 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3395 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3396 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3397 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3399 Build-system features
3400 ---------------------
3402 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3404 Add support to configure for many standard options
3406 We include actual support for:
3408 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3410 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3412 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3413 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3415 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3416 separate "make install-emacs"
3418 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3420 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3421 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3422 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3424 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3427 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3428 ========================
3430 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3432 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3433 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3435 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3436 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3437 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3438 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3439 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3440 tags from messages in a thread.
3447 indent-tabs-mode: nil