1 Notmuch 0.33 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 Respect excluded tags when showing a thread.
9 Notmuch 0.32.1 (UNRELEASED)
10 ===========================
12 Restore handling of relative values for `database.path` that was
13 broken by 0.32. Extend this handling to `database.mail_root`,
14 `database.backup_dir`, and `database.hook_dir`.
16 Notmuch 0.32 (2021-05-02)
17 =========================
22 This release includes a significant overhaul of the configuration
23 management facilities for notmuch. The previous distinction between
24 configuration items that can be modified via plain text configuration
25 files and those that must be set in the database via the "notmuch
26 config" subcommand is gone, and all configuration items can be set in
27 both ways. The external configuration file overrides configuration
28 items in the database. The location of database, hooks, and
29 configuration files is now more flexible, with several new
30 configuration variables. In particular XDG locations are now supported
31 as fallbacks for database, configuration and hooks. For more
32 information see `notmuch-config(1)`.
37 To support the new configuration facilities, several functions and
38 constants have been added to the notmuch API. Most notably:
40 - `notmuch_database_create_with_config`
41 - `notmuch_database_open_with_config`
42 - `notmuch_database_load_config`
43 - `notmuch_config_get`
45 A previously requested API change is that `notmuch_database_reopen` is
46 now exposed (and generalized).
48 The previously severe slowdowns from large numbers calls to
49 notmuch_database_remove_message or notmuch_message_delete in one
50 session has been fixed.
52 As always, the canonical source of API documentation is
53 `lib/notmuch.h`, or the doxygen formatted documentation in `notmuch(3)`
58 The `notmuch config set` subcommand gained a `--database` argument to
59 specify that the database should be updated, rather than a config file.
61 The speed of `notmuch new` and `notmuch reindex` in dealing with large
62 numbers of mail file deletions is significantly improved.
67 Completion related updates include: de-duplicating tags offered for
68 completion, use the actual initial input in address completion, allow
69 users to opt out of notmuch address completion, and do not force Ido
70 when prompting for senders.
72 Some keymaps used to contain bindings for unnamed commands. These
73 lambda expressions have been replaced by named commands (symbols), to
76 Lexical binding is now used in all notmuch-emacs libraries.
78 Fix bug in calling `notmuch-mua-mail` with a non-nil RETURN-ACTION.
80 Removed, inlined or renamed functions and variables:
81 `notmuch-address-locate-command`,
82 `notmuch-documentation-first-line`, `notmuch-folder`,
83 `notmuch-hello-trim', `notmuch-hello-versions` => `notmuch-version`,
84 `notmuch-remove-if-not`, `notmuch-search-disjunctive-regexp`,
85 `notmuch-sexp-eof`, `notmuch-split-content-type`, and
86 `notmuch-tree-button-activate`.
88 Notmuch 0.31.4 (2021-02-18)
89 ===========================
94 Fix include bug triggered by glib 2.67.
99 Fix race condition in T568-lib-thread.
101 Notmuch 0.31.3 (2020-12-25)
102 ===========================
107 Fix for exclude tags in notmuch2 bindings.
112 Portability update for T360-symbol-hiding
117 Fix for memory error in notmuch_database_get_config_list
119 Notmuch 0.31.2 (2020-11-08)
120 ===========================
125 Catch one more occurence of "version" in the build system, which
126 caused the file to be regenerated in the release tarball.
128 Notmuch 0.31.1 (2020-11-08)
129 ===========================
134 Fix a memory initialization bug in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
139 Rename file 'version' to 'version.txt'. The old file name conflicted
140 with a C++ header for some compilers.
142 Replace use of coreutils `realpath` in configure.
144 Notmuch 0.31 (2020-09-05)
145 =========================
150 Notmuch now supports Emacs 27.1. You may need to set
151 `mml-secure-openpgp-sign-with-sender` and/or
152 `mml-secure-smime-sign-with-sender` to continue signing messages.
154 The minimum supported major version of GNU Emacs is now 25.1.
156 Add support for moving between threads after notmuch-tree-from-search-thread.
158 New `notmuch-unthreaded` mode (added in Notmuch 0.30)
160 Unthreaded view is a mode where each matching message is shown on a
163 The main key entries to unthreaded view are
165 'u' enter a query to view in unthreaded mode (works in hello,
166 search, show and tree mode)
168 'U' view the current query in unthreaded mode (works from search,
171 Saved searches can also specify that they should open in unthreaded
174 Currently it is not possible to specify the sort order: it will
175 always be newest first.
180 The shell pipeline executed by notmuch-mutt, which symlinked matched
181 files to a maildir for mutt to access is replaced with internal perl
182 processing. This search operation is now more portable, and somewhat
188 Improve exception handling in the library. This should
189 largely eliminate terminations inside the library due to uncaught
190 exceptions or internal errors. No doubt there are a few uncovered
191 code paths still; please report them as bugs.
193 Add `notmuch_message_get_flag_st` and
194 `notmuch_message_has_maildir_flag_st`, and deprecate the existing
195 non-status providing versions.
197 Move memory de-allocation from `notmuch_database_close` to
198 `notmuch_database_destroy`.
200 Handle relative filenames in `notmuch_database_index_file`, as
201 promised in the documentation.
206 Documentation for the python bindings is merged into the main
207 sphinx-doc documentation tree. The merged documentation can be built
208 with e.g. `make sphinx-html`
213 We now support building notmuch against Xapian 1.5 (the current
214 development version).
219 Test suite fixes for compatibility with Emacs 27.1.
224 Man pages are now compressed reproducibly.
226 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-07-10)
227 =========================
232 Handle S/MIME (PKCS#7) messages -- one-part signed messages, encrypted
233 messages, and multilayer messages. Treat them symmetrically to
234 OpenPGP messages. This includes handling protected headers
237 If you're using Notmuch with S/MIME, you currently need to configure
243 Detect and automatically repair a common form of message mangling
244 created by Microsoft Exchange (see index.repaired=mixedup in
245 notmuch-properties(7)).
250 Avoid indexing the legacy-display part of an encrypted message that
251 has protected headers (see
252 index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display in
253 notmuch-properties(7)).
258 Drop support for python2, focus on python3.
260 Introduce new CFFI-based python bindings in the python module named
261 "notmuch2". Officially deprecate (but still support) the older
267 Support for Xapian 1.2 is removed. The minimum supported version of
270 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
271 ===========================
276 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
278 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
283 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
285 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
286 ===========================
291 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
292 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
294 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
295 ===========================
300 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
302 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
303 =========================
308 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
309 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
312 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
313 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
314 the set of headers to be indexed.
316 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
319 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
320 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
321 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
324 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
325 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
326 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
328 Command Line Interface
329 ----------------------
331 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
334 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
336 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
337 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
338 more details about what is included there. This status includes
339 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
344 Optionally check for missing attachments in outgoing messages (see
345 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
347 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
349 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
351 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
353 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
355 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
358 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
360 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
361 and may be removed in a future release.
363 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
369 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
371 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
372 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
377 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
378 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
379 cryptography support.
384 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
385 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
386 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
388 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
389 ===========================
391 Command line interface
392 ----------------------
394 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
395 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
397 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
398 ===========================
403 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
404 by message properties.
409 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
411 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
412 ===========================
417 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
422 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
423 now needed to build this documentation.
425 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
426 ===========================
431 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
432 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
434 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
435 =========================
442 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
443 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
444 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
445 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
446 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
449 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
451 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
452 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
453 correct encoding for such messages.
455 Command Line Interface
456 ----------------------
458 Support relative database paths
460 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
461 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
462 to $HOME of the invoking user.
467 Improve stderr handling
469 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
470 needed on e.g. macOS.
472 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
474 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
479 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
480 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
486 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
487 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
493 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
494 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
497 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
498 =========================
503 Add support for thread:{} queries
505 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
506 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
507 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
509 Command Line Interface
510 ----------------------
512 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
514 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
516 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
518 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
519 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
520 does not have to be available during message receipt.
525 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
531 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
532 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
534 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
535 ===========================
540 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
542 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
543 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
544 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
546 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
548 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
549 related abort in `notmuch show`.
551 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
552 ===========================
557 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
558 better late than never.
561 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
562 =========================
564 Command Line Interface
565 ----------------------
567 Support for re-indexing existing messages
569 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
570 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
571 change the way specific messages are indexed.
573 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
574 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
575 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
577 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
579 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
581 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
583 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
584 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
585 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
586 the setting of `new.tags`.
588 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
590 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
592 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
594 This inserts into the top level folder.
596 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
598 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
600 New option --output=address for notmuch address
602 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
604 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
606 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
607 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
608 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
610 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
615 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
617 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
618 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
619 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
620 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
621 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
622 config set index.decrypt true".
624 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
625 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
626 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
627 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
628 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
629 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
630 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
631 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
633 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
634 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
635 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
636 this feature without considering the security of your index.
641 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
643 Use make-process when available
645 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
646 notmuch command without using temporary files.
651 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
653 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
654 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
655 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
656 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
658 New functions to count files
660 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
661 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
663 New function to remove properties
665 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
666 drop all properties with a common pattern:
667 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
669 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
671 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
672 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
673 possibility of NULL was not documented.
675 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
677 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
678 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
679 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
680 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
681 operator may decide to change from message to message.
688 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
689 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
690 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
696 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
698 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
699 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
701 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
703 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
705 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
707 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
712 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
713 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
715 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
716 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
717 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
718 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
719 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
720 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
725 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
727 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
728 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
729 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
730 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
732 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
733 ===========================
738 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
739 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
742 Command Line Interface
743 ----------------------
745 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
746 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
749 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
750 ===========================
752 Command Line Interface
753 ----------------------
755 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
756 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
761 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
764 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
765 ===========================
770 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
773 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
774 =========================
779 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
781 Skip HTML tags when indexing
783 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
785 Command Line Interface
786 ----------------------
788 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
790 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
795 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
797 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
798 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
801 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
806 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
808 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
809 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
811 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
813 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
814 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
817 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
819 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
821 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
823 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
824 ===========================
826 Command Line Interface
827 ----------------------
829 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
834 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
836 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
837 ===========================
842 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
844 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
845 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
848 Command Line Interface
849 ----------------------
851 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
853 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
855 Fix bug in dump header
857 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
858 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
859 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
864 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
866 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
867 =========================
872 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
874 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
877 Command Line Interface
878 ----------------------
880 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
882 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
883 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
884 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
886 New default output format to 3
888 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
889 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
890 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
891 default format changes.
896 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
898 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
899 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
900 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
901 or tree view to resume.
903 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
904 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
905 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
908 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
909 they were when you postponed in the final message.
913 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
914 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
915 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
916 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
917 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
921 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
922 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
923 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
924 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
925 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
926 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
930 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
931 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
933 Stop display of `application/*` parts
935 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
936 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
937 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
938 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
939 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
940 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
941 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
942 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
945 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
947 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
948 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
949 only tagged the current thread.)
951 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
953 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
954 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
955 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
957 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
959 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
960 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
961 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
962 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
963 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
964 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
965 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
967 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
969 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
970 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
971 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
976 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
978 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
981 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
983 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
986 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
987 ===========================
992 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
994 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
995 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
996 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
999 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
1000 ===========================
1002 Command Line Interface
1003 ----------------------
1005 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
1010 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
1012 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
1013 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
1014 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
1016 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
1017 ===========================
1022 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
1023 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
1025 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
1026 ===========================
1028 Command Line Interface
1029 ----------------------
1031 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
1033 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
1034 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
1035 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
1040 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
1042 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
1043 ===========================
1045 Command Line Interface
1046 ----------------------
1048 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
1053 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
1055 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
1056 ===========================
1061 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
1063 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
1064 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
1065 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
1067 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
1069 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
1071 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
1072 ===========================
1077 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
1079 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
1084 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
1086 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
1087 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
1088 the original colours.
1090 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
1091 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
1093 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
1095 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
1096 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
1097 bug, and hence the test.
1099 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
1100 =========================
1102 General (Xapian 1.4+)
1103 ---------------------
1105 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
1107 Support for single argument date: queries
1109 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
1111 Support for blocking opens
1113 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
1114 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
1116 Support for named queries
1118 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
1119 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
1120 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
1125 Message property API
1127 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
1128 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
1129 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
1130 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
1132 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
1134 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
1139 Support for compile time options
1141 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
1142 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
1145 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
1147 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
1148 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
1149 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
1150 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
1151 scripts to ignore it.
1156 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
1158 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
1159 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
1160 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
1162 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
1163 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
1164 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
1165 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
1166 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
1167 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
1168 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
1170 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
1171 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
1174 Make internal address completion customizable
1176 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
1177 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
1178 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
1179 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
1182 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
1184 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
1185 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
1186 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
1187 completion for the current buffer.
1189 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
1190 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
1191 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
1195 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
1196 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
1197 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
1198 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
1199 will be added instead.
1201 Face customization is easier
1203 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
1204 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
1205 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
1206 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
1208 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
1213 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
1218 Go bindings moved to contrib
1220 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
1222 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
1224 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
1225 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
1227 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
1229 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
1230 ===========================
1237 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
1238 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
1240 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
1242 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
1244 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
1245 ===========================
1250 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
1252 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
1257 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
1262 Use `env` to locate perl.
1267 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1269 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1271 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1273 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1275 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1276 =========================
1283 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1284 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1286 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1288 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1289 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1290 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1295 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1296 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1297 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1299 Command Line Interface
1300 ----------------------
1302 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1304 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1309 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1314 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1316 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1317 parts are now included in replies.
1319 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1320 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1321 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1322 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1324 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1326 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1328 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1330 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1331 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1332 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1333 forwards only the current message.
1335 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1337 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1338 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1339 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1340 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1341 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1342 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1343 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1344 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1347 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1348 longer generate empty buffers
1350 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1351 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1352 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1353 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1354 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1356 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1358 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1361 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1363 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1366 Address completion improvements
1368 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1369 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1370 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1371 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1372 interactive address completion.
1374 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1376 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1377 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1378 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1383 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1384 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1385 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1391 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1392 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1393 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1394 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1395 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1396 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1398 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1399 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1400 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1401 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1402 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1403 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1405 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1406 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1408 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1409 =========================
1414 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1417 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1419 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1420 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1421 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1423 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1424 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1426 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1427 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1428 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1430 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1432 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1433 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1434 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1435 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1436 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1437 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1442 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1443 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1446 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1447 option to configure.
1449 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1451 Command Line Interface
1452 ----------------------
1454 Database revision tracking
1456 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1457 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1458 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1459 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1461 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1463 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1464 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1465 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1466 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1467 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1468 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1469 manual page for further information.
1474 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1476 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1477 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1479 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1481 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1482 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1483 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1485 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1487 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1489 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1490 customization as well.
1492 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1494 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1496 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1498 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1500 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1501 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1502 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1503 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1505 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1507 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1508 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1509 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1510 this variable to 10000.
1515 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1516 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1518 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1520 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1521 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1522 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1523 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1524 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1525 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1526 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1527 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1528 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1531 Database revision tracking
1533 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1534 query parser and the new function
1535 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1537 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1539 Deprecated functions
1541 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1542 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1543 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1544 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1549 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1551 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1552 ===========================
1557 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1559 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1560 ===========================
1565 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1567 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1568 =========================
1570 Command-Line Interface
1571 ----------------------
1573 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1575 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1576 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1577 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1579 Path to gpg is now configurable
1581 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1582 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1587 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1589 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1594 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1599 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1604 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1606 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1607 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1609 New error logging facility
1611 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1612 output formerly printed to stderr.
1614 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1616 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1618 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1620 Fix for rounding of seconds
1625 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1627 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1628 documentation has been removed.
1630 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1632 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1633 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1638 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1639 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1640 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1645 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1646 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1647 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1648 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1649 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1650 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1653 git checkout config origin/config
1655 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1657 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1658 =========================
1663 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1664 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1665 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1666 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1667 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1668 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1669 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1671 Command-Line Interface
1672 ----------------------
1674 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1676 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1677 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1678 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1679 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1680 script callers should still check the return value.
1682 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1684 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1685 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1686 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1687 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1688 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1689 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1690 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1692 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1694 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1695 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1696 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1698 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1700 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1701 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1702 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1703 currently unmaintained.
1705 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1707 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1708 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1709 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1710 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1712 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1714 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1715 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1716 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1717 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1718 count of duplicate addresses.
1723 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1725 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1726 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1727 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1730 Improved handling of the unread tag
1732 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1733 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1734 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1735 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1736 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1737 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1738 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1740 Expanded default saved search settings
1742 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1743 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1745 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1747 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1748 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1749 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1751 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1753 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1754 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1755 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1756 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1757 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1758 the variable for details.
1763 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1765 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1766 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1767 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1768 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1770 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1772 Previously, library users were required to call
1773 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1774 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1775 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1776 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1777 too out of date for that API.
1779 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1781 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1782 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1783 atomic section will be aborted.
1785 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1786 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1788 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1790 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1791 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1792 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1793 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1794 messages into the same thread.
1799 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1800 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1801 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1802 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1803 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1804 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1809 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1810 from the config file. Use something like:
1814 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1815 "footer": "</body></html>",
1824 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1829 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1830 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1831 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1833 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1834 ===========================
1839 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1841 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1843 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1845 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1846 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1848 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1850 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1853 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1854 ===========================
1856 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1861 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1863 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1865 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1867 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1869 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1875 Use --quick when starting emacs
1877 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1879 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1881 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1883 Command-Line Interface
1884 ----------------------
1886 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1887 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1892 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1894 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1895 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1897 Fix for phrase indexing
1899 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1900 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1901 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1906 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1908 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1909 unintentionally removed.
1911 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1912 =========================
1917 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1918 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1919 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1920 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1921 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1922 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1923 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1924 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1925 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1931 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1933 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1934 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1935 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1936 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1937 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1938 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1939 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1940 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1942 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1944 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1945 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1946 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1947 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1950 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1952 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1953 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1954 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1955 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1956 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1957 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1958 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1963 Notmuch database upgrade
1965 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1966 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1967 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1968 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1969 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1970 released version of Notmuch before now.
1972 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1974 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1975 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1976 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1977 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1979 Message header parsing changes
1981 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1982 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1983 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1984 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1985 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1986 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1988 Command-Line Interface
1989 ----------------------
1991 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1993 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1995 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1997 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1999 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
2001 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
2002 user does not want it.
2004 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
2006 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
2007 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
2008 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
2009 support formatted output.
2011 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
2013 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
2014 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
2015 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
2023 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
2024 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
2025 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
2026 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
2027 `~/.emacs` with these.
2029 Changed format for saved searches
2031 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
2032 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
2033 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
2034 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
2037 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
2038 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
2039 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
2040 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2042 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
2043 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
2044 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
2046 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
2047 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
2048 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
2049 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
2050 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
2052 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
2054 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
2055 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
2056 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
2058 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
2060 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
2061 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
2062 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
2063 message had been unread).
2065 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
2066 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
2067 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
2068 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
2070 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
2071 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
2072 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
2074 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
2075 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
2076 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
2077 to tags already present.
2081 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
2082 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
2083 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
2084 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
2085 these differ from each other.
2086 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
2088 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
2090 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
2091 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
2092 for these Emacs versions.
2094 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
2096 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
2097 newlines before calling notmuch count.
2099 Bug fixes for sender identities
2101 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
2102 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
2103 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
2105 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
2107 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
2108 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
2109 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
2110 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
2112 Reply pushes mark before signature
2114 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
2115 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
2116 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
2118 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
2120 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
2121 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
2127 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
2128 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
2130 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
2131 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
2132 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
2133 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
2135 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
2136 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
2137 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
2138 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
2139 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
2141 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
2143 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
2144 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
2146 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
2147 =========================
2149 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
2150 ---------------------------------------
2152 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
2153 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
2154 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
2155 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
2156 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
2157 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
2158 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
2162 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
2163 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
2165 Command-Line Interface
2166 ----------------------
2168 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
2170 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
2171 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
2172 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
2173 print for each message.
2175 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
2176 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
2177 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
2178 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
2180 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
2182 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
2183 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
2184 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
2186 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
2188 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
2189 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
2190 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
2191 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
2193 `notmuch compact` command
2195 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
2196 functionality through a more convenient interface than
2197 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
2198 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
2199 move the compacted database into place.
2204 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
2206 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
2207 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
2208 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
2209 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
2210 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
2211 and multiple threads.
2213 Using `notmuch-tree`
2215 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
2217 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
2218 search, show and tree mode itself)
2220 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
2223 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
2224 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
2226 Customising `notmuch-tree`
2228 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
2229 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
2230 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
2231 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
2232 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
2233 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
2234 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
2236 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
2238 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
2239 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
2240 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
2241 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
2242 thread when the search was performed.
2244 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
2246 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
2247 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
2248 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
2250 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
2252 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
2253 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
2256 Built-in help improvements
2258 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
2259 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
2260 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
2262 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
2264 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
2265 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
2266 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
2268 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2270 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2271 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2273 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2275 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2276 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2277 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2278 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2280 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2282 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2283 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2284 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2285 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2287 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2289 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2290 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2291 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2293 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2295 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2296 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2297 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2299 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2301 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2302 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2303 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2304 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2305 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2307 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2309 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2310 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2311 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2312 the body part of the message.
2317 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2318 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2319 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2321 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2322 =========================
2324 Command-Line Interface
2325 ----------------------
2327 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2329 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2330 folder and notmuch index.
2332 `notmuch count --batch` option
2334 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2335 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2337 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2339 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2340 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2341 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2344 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2346 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2347 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2348 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2349 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2350 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2353 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2355 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2356 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2358 Top level option to specify configuration file
2360 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2361 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2363 Bash command-line completion
2365 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2366 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2367 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2368 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2369 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2370 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2371 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2372 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2373 bash-completion package.
2375 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2380 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2382 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2383 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2384 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2385 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2386 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2387 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2388 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2389 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2391 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2393 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2394 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2395 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2397 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2399 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2400 previous thread in the search results.
2402 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2404 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2405 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2407 Faster search and show
2409 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2410 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2411 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2412 threads should show faster.
2416 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2417 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2418 in question was now removed from this release.
2423 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2424 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2429 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2431 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2432 ===========================
2437 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2439 Internal test framework changes
2440 -------------------------------
2442 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2443 being unimplemented.
2445 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2446 ===========================
2448 Internal test framework changes
2449 -------------------------------
2451 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2452 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2454 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2455 =========================
2460 Date range search support
2462 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2463 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2464 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2465 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2466 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2469 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2471 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2472 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2473 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2474 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2475 but may be removed in a future release.
2477 Command-Line Interface
2478 ----------------------
2480 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2482 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2483 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2485 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2487 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2488 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2489 officially deprecated.
2491 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2493 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2494 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2495 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2497 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2499 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2500 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2503 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2504 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2505 dump/restore format.
2507 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2509 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2510 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2511 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2513 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2515 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2516 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2517 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2519 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2521 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2522 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2523 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2524 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2529 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2531 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2532 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2533 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2534 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2536 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2538 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2539 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2540 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2541 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2542 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2543 the behavior of this, see
2544 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2545 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2547 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2548 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2549 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2551 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2553 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2554 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2557 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2559 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2560 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2561 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2562 simply displayed in place of the message.
2564 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2566 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2567 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2569 Improved text/calendar content handling
2571 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2572 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2573 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2574 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2576 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2578 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2579 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2580 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2581 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2583 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2585 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2586 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2587 for HTML email containing images.
2589 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2591 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2593 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2595 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2598 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2600 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2601 the point where it was.
2603 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2605 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2606 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2607 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2608 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2609 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2611 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2613 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2614 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2615 thread instead of the message id.
2617 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2618 -----------------------------
2620 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2621 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2622 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2623 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2624 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2625 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2626 further details and installation.
2631 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2633 Internal test framework changes
2634 -------------------------------
2636 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2638 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2639 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2640 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2641 can result in buggy behavior.
2643 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2644 =========================
2649 Maildir tag synchronization
2651 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2652 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2653 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2654 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2655 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2656 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2659 Command-Line Interface
2660 ----------------------
2662 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2663 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2664 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2665 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2666 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2672 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2674 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2676 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2677 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2678 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2680 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2682 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2683 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2684 span multiple lines.
2686 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2688 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2689 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2690 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2691 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2692 inside the result or message.
2694 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2696 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2697 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2699 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2700 user-specified formatting
2702 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2703 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2704 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2705 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2706 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2708 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2709 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2711 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2712 ===========================
2717 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2718 compilation error for this contrib package.
2720 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2721 ===========================
2726 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2728 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2729 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2730 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2731 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2733 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2734 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2737 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2738 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2739 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2740 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2743 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2745 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2748 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2749 =========================
2751 Command-Line Interface
2752 ----------------------
2756 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2757 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2758 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2759 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2761 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2762 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2763 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2764 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2768 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2769 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2771 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2772 tag in your query, for example:
2774 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2776 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2777 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2779 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2780 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2782 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2784 Raw show format changes
2786 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2787 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2788 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2789 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2790 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2791 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2792 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2793 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2795 Listing configuration items
2797 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2803 Changes to tagging interface
2805 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2806 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2807 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2808 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2809 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2810 for more information.
2812 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2813 may need to update in custom configurations.
2815 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2817 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2818 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2819 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2820 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2823 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2824 -----------------------------
2826 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2827 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2828 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2829 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2830 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2831 contrib/ from now on.
2836 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2837 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2839 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2840 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2842 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2843 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2844 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2846 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2847 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2849 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2850 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2851 returning the new database object or directory object.
2858 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2859 compatible with go 1.
2861 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2862 =========================
2864 Command-Line Interface
2865 ----------------------
2869 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2870 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2871 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2872 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2874 Mail store folder/file ignore
2876 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2877 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2878 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2880 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2881 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2883 Unified help and manual pages
2885 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2886 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2889 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2891 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2892 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2900 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2901 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2902 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2903 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2905 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2907 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2908 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2910 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2913 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2914 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2915 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2917 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2919 should be changed to:
2921 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2923 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2925 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2926 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2928 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2930 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2931 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2932 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2933 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2934 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2935 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2939 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2940 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2941 of Mailing List Archives.
2943 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2945 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2946 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2949 Show view archiving key binding changes
2951 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2952 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2953 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2954 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2955 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2958 Support text/calendar MIME type
2960 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2963 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2965 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2966 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2967 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2968 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2970 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2972 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2973 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2974 messages blue by default in the search view.
2978 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2979 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2986 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2989 Python bindings changes
2990 -----------------------
2992 Python 3.2 compatibility
2994 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2996 Added missing unicode conversions
2998 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2999 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
3000 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
3005 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
3007 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
3008 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
3009 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
3010 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
3011 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
3013 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
3014 ===========================
3019 Fix error handling in python bindings
3021 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
3022 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
3023 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
3024 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
3026 Quote MML tags in replies
3028 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
3029 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
3030 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
3031 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
3032 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
3033 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
3034 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
3035 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
3037 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
3038 =========================
3040 Command-Line Interface
3041 ----------------------
3045 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
3046 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
3047 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
3048 importing new messages into the database.
3050 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
3052 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
3053 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
3054 sometimes. This is now fixed.
3059 Automatic tag query optimization
3061 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
3062 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
3063 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
3065 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
3067 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
3068 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
3069 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
3074 Reduction of memory leaks
3076 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
3077 and fixed in this release.
3084 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
3085 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
3086 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
3089 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3091 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3092 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
3093 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
3096 Improvements in saved search management
3098 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
3099 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
3100 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
3102 Hooks for notmuch-hello
3104 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
3105 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
3106 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
3108 New face for crypto parts headers
3110 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
3111 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
3112 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
3115 Use space as default thousands separator
3117 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
3118 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
3119 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
3121 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
3122 buttonized id: links
3124 New function notmuch-show-advance
3126 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
3127 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
3128 be bound to SPC with:
3130 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
3132 Various performance improvements
3137 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
3138 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
3141 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
3142 ===========================
3147 Fix crash in python bindings
3149 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
3150 for some, but not all users.
3152 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
3153 ===========================
3158 Fix `--help` argument
3160 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
3161 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
3162 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
3164 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
3165 =========================
3167 New build and testing features
3168 ------------------------------
3170 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
3171 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
3172 prerequisites is improved.
3174 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
3176 New command-line features
3177 -------------------------
3179 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
3181 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
3182 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
3185 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
3187 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
3188 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
3189 favour of using stdout.
3191 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
3193 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
3194 limit the number of results shown.
3196 Add `notmuch count --output` option
3198 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
3199 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
3202 New emacs UI features
3203 ---------------------
3205 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
3207 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
3208 starting with "tag:".
3210 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
3212 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
3213 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
3215 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
3217 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
3219 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
3221 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
3222 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
3227 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
3229 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
3231 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
3232 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
3233 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
3234 requires a database rebuild:
3236 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3237 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3239 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3241 New collection of add-on tools
3242 ------------------------------
3244 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
3245 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
3246 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
3249 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
3251 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
3252 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
3253 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
3255 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
3256 ========================
3258 New, general features
3259 ---------------------
3261 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
3263 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
3264 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
3265 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
3266 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
3267 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3274 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3275 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3277 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3281 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3282 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3283 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3286 Python bindings changes
3287 -----------------------
3289 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3291 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3292 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3293 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3294 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3295 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3296 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3298 Ruby bindings changes
3299 ---------------------
3301 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3302 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3303 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3304 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3309 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3311 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3312 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3314 Reply formatting cleanup
3315 ------------------------
3317 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3318 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3320 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3321 ========================
3323 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3325 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3326 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3327 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3328 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3331 Improved Build system portability
3333 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3334 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3335 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3337 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3339 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3341 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3343 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3344 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3345 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3347 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3348 ========================
3350 Vim interface improvements
3351 --------------------------
3353 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3355 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3356 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3357 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3358 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3359 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3361 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3363 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3364 * fix compose temp file name
3366 Python Bindings changes
3367 -----------------------
3369 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3371 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3372 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3374 Build-System improvements
3375 -------------------------
3377 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3379 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3382 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3383 ==========================
3388 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3390 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3391 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3393 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3394 =======================
3396 New, general features
3397 ---------------------
3399 Folder-based searching
3401 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3402 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3403 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3407 For example, one might use things such as:
3413 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3414 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3416 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3417 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3418 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3419 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3421 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3422 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3423 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3426 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3427 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3429 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3431 Support for PGP/MIME
3433 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3434 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3435 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3437 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3439 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3440 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3442 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3443 notmuch will receive these tags.
3445 New command-line features
3446 -------------------------
3448 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3450 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3451 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3453 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3455 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3456 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3457 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3459 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3461 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3462 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3463 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3464 which parts a signature part applies).
3466 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3468 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3469 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3470 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3471 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3472 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3475 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3477 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3478 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3479 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3480 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3481 by translating it internally to the new call.
3483 Performance improvements
3484 ------------------------
3486 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3488 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3489 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3490 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3492 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3493 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3495 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3497 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3498 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3499 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3501 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3502 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3503 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3504 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3506 Faster initial indexing
3508 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3509 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3510 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3512 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3514 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3515 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3516 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3517 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3519 New emacs-interface features
3520 ----------------------------
3522 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3524 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3525 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3526 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3527 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3528 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3529 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3531 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3533 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3534 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3535 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3536 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3538 User-selectable From address
3540 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3541 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3542 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3543 will prompt for the from address to use.
3545 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3546 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3547 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3549 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3550 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3551 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3554 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3556 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3557 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3559 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3561 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3563 ----- Original Message -----
3565 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3566 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3567 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3568 citations work much like conventional citations.
3570 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3572 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3573 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3574 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3575 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3576 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3578 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3579 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3581 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3583 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3584 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3585 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3587 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3589 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3590 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3591 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3592 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3593 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3595 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3597 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3600 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3602 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3604 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3606 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3609 Vim interface improvements
3610 --------------------------
3612 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3614 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3615 * Implementing archive in show view
3616 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3617 * Add delete commands
3620 Bindings improvements
3621 ---------------------
3623 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3625 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3626 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3628 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3630 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3634 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3635 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3636 `list(Messages)` works now
3637 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3639 These allow, for example:
3641 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3643 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3645 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3651 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3653 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3656 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3658 New build-system features
3659 -------------------------
3661 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3663 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3664 the configure script from some other directory:
3671 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3673 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3674 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3675 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3676 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3677 manual invocation of configure.
3679 New test-suite feature
3680 ----------------------
3682 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3684 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3685 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3686 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3687 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3688 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3691 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3693 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3694 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3695 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3696 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3697 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3698 are updated to take advantage of this.
3700 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3702 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3703 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3704 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3705 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3711 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3713 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3714 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3715 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3717 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3719 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3721 to:user@elsewhere.com
3723 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3725 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3727 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3729 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3730 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3731 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3734 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3735 from the Received headers in some cases
3737 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3738 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3740 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3742 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3744 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3746 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3747 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3748 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3750 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3751 -------------------------
3753 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3755 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3756 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3757 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3759 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3761 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3762 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3763 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3766 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3768 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3769 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3770 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3771 fixed to avoid this bug.
3773 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3775 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3776 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3778 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3779 ========================
3781 New, general features
3782 ---------------------
3784 Maildir-flag synchronization
3786 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3787 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3796 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3798 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3799 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3800 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3801 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3803 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3804 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3805 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3806 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3809 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3811 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3812 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3813 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3815 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3816 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3818 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3819 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3821 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3822 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3823 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3825 New library features
3826 --------------------
3828 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3830 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3831 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3832 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3833 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3835 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3836 message with the new function:
3838 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3840 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3841 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3842 over all available filenames for a given message.
3844 New command-line features
3845 -------------------------
3847 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3849 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3850 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3851 access to the mail store itself.
3853 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3854 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3855 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3856 name of a script containing:
3858 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3860 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3861 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3867 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3869 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3871 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3873 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3874 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3875 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3876 now produces nothing).
3878 Emacs interface improvements
3879 ----------------------------
3881 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3883 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3885 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3887 Display current thread subject in a header line
3889 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3891 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3893 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3894 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3895 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3896 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3897 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3898 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3899 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3901 Vim interface improvements
3902 --------------------------
3904 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3906 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3907 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3913 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3915 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3916 ========================
3918 New command-line features
3919 -------------------------
3921 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3923 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3924 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3925 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3927 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3928 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3929 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3930 scripts. For example:
3932 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3933 <operations-on> "$file"
3936 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3938 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3939 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3940 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3941 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3942 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3943 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3945 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3947 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3948 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3949 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3950 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3952 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3954 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3955 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3956 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3957 default rather than Bcc.
3959 New library features
3960 --------------------
3962 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3964 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3965 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3970 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3972 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3973 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3974 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3975 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3976 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3977 notmuch customize interface.
3979 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3981 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3982 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3983 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3984 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3986 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3988 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3989 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3990 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3991 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3993 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3995 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3996 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3997 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3998 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3999 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
4000 notmuch customize interface.
4002 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
4004 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
4005 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
4006 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
4007 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
4008 notmuch customize interface.
4010 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
4012 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
4013 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
4014 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
4015 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
4018 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
4020 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
4021 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
4022 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
4025 New build-system features
4026 -------------------------
4028 Various portability fixes have been applied
4030 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
4031 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
4032 more portable than ever before.
4034 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
4036 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
4037 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
4038 after installing. This support takes two forms:
4040 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
4041 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
4042 automatically run ldconfig.
4044 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
4045 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
4046 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
4048 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
4049 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
4050 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
4051 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
4053 Check compiler/linker options before using them
4055 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
4056 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
4057 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
4058 used in the resulting Makefile.
4060 New test-suite features
4061 -----------------------
4063 New modularization of test suite
4065 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
4066 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
4067 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
4068 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
4069 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
4070 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
4071 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
4072 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
4074 New testing of emacs interface
4076 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
4077 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
4078 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
4079 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
4080 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
4081 database via the FCC setting.
4086 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
4088 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
4089 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
4090 persistent error of the form:
4092 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
4094 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
4095 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
4097 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
4099 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
4100 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
4101 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
4103 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
4105 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
4106 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
4107 parsing the notmuch results).
4109 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
4111 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
4114 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
4115 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
4116 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
4121 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
4123 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
4124 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
4125 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
4126 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
4127 the emacs interface.
4129 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
4131 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
4132 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
4133 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
4135 Python-binding fixes
4136 --------------------
4138 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
4140 Debian-specific fixes
4141 ---------------------
4143 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
4145 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
4146 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
4147 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
4150 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
4151 ==========================
4156 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
4158 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
4159 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
4160 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
4161 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
4163 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
4165 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
4166 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
4167 want notmuch to crash.
4172 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
4174 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
4175 directory does not exist
4180 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
4182 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
4183 final linking of notmuch would fail.
4185 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
4186 ========================
4188 New command-line features
4189 -------------------------
4191 User-configurable tags for new messages
4193 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
4194 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
4195 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
4196 to specify this value.
4198 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
4200 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
4201 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
4202 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
4204 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
4206 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
4207 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
4209 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
4211 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
4212 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
4213 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
4214 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
4215 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
4218 Indication of author names that match a search
4220 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
4221 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
4222 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
4223 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
4224 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
4225 messages in the thread are listed first.
4227 New: Python bindings
4228 --------------------
4230 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
4231 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
4232 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
4233 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
4235 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
4236 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
4237 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
4240 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
4241 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
4242 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
4244 Emacs interface improvements
4245 ----------------------------
4247 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
4249 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
4250 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
4251 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
4252 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
4253 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
4254 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
4255 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
4256 but without any of the disadvantages).
4258 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
4259 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
4260 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
4263 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
4264 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
4265 instead running something like:
4267 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4269 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4270 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4271 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4274 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4276 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4277 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4278 tweaked by the user.
4280 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4281 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4282 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4285 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4286 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4287 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4290 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4292 This support currently relies on an external program,
4293 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4294 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4295 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4296 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4297 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4300 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4301 notmuch) is available via:
4303 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4305 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4306 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4307 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4309 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4311 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4312 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4313 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4314 making this automatic in a future release.
4316 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4318 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4319 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4320 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4321 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4322 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4323 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4326 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4328 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4329 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4330 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4332 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4334 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4335 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4336 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4338 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4339 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4340 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4341 other representation.
4343 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4344 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4347 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4349 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4350 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4351 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4353 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4354 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4355 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4357 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4359 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4360 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4361 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4362 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4363 to display the search result.
4365 More flexible handling of header visibility
4367 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4368 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4369 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4370 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4371 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4372 with the 'h' keybinding.
4374 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4375 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4376 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4378 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4380 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4382 Customizable formatting of search results
4384 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4385 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4386 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4388 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4390 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4392 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4397 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4399 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4400 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4401 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4402 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4408 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4410 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4411 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4413 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4415 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4416 accept are now all accepted.
4421 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4423 Better display of output from failed tests
4425 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4426 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4428 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4429 ========================
4431 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4432 detailed release notes this time!
4434 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4435 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4437 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4438 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4439 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4440 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4447 Better guessing of From: header
4449 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4450 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4451 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4452 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4453 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4456 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4458 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4459 guaranteed to match all messages.
4461 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4463 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4464 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4465 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4466 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4467 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4470 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4473 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4474 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4475 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4476 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4481 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4483 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4484 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4485 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4486 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4488 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4490 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4492 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4493 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4494 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4496 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4498 Previously, the user might see:
4500 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4504 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4506 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4507 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4508 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4509 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4511 Emacs client features
4512 ---------------------
4514 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4516 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4517 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4518 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4519 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4520 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4522 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4525 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4526 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4527 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4528 search with the '*' binding.
4530 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4532 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4533 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4536 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4538 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4539 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4540 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4542 Build-system features
4543 ---------------------
4545 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4547 Add support to configure for many standard options
4549 We include actual support for:
4551 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4553 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4555 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4556 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4558 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4559 separate "make install-emacs"
4561 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4563 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4564 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4565 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4567 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4570 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4571 ========================
4573 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4575 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4576 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4578 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4579 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4580 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4581 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4582 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4583 tags from messages in a thread.
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