1 Notmuch 0.24 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`.
9 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
15 Save and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition).
20 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive.
22 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
25 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
27 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
30 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
31 ===========================
36 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
38 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
39 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
40 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
43 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
44 ===========================
46 Command Line Interface
47 ----------------------
49 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
54 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
56 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
57 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
58 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
60 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
61 ===========================
66 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
67 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
69 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
70 ===========================
72 Command Line Interface
73 ----------------------
75 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
77 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
78 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
79 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
84 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
86 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
87 ===========================
89 Command Line Interface
90 ----------------------
92 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
97 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
99 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
100 ===========================
105 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
107 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
108 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
109 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
111 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
113 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
115 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
116 ===========================
121 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
123 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
128 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
130 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
131 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
132 the original colours.
134 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
135 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
137 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
139 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
140 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
141 bug, and hence the test.
143 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
144 =========================
146 General (Xapian 1.4+)
147 ---------------------
149 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
151 Support for single argument date: queries
153 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
155 Support for blocking opens
157 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
158 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
160 Support for named queries
162 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
163 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
164 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
171 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
172 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
173 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
174 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
176 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
178 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
183 Support for compile time options
185 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
186 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
189 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
191 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
192 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
193 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
194 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
195 scripts to ignore it.
200 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
202 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
203 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
204 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
206 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
207 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
208 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
209 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
210 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
211 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
212 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
214 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
215 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
218 Make internal address completion customizable
220 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
221 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
222 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
223 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
226 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
228 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
229 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
230 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
231 completion for the current buffer.
233 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
234 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
235 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
239 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
240 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
241 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
242 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
243 will be added instead.
245 Face customization is easier
247 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
248 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
249 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
250 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
252 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
257 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
262 Go bindings moved to contrib
264 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
266 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
268 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
269 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
271 The same issue occured with sort modes.
273 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
274 ===========================
281 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
282 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
284 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
286 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
288 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
289 ===========================
294 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
296 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
301 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
306 Use `env` to locate perl.
311 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
313 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
315 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
317 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
319 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
320 =========================
327 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
328 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
330 Limited support for S/MIME messages
332 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
333 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
334 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
339 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
340 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
341 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
343 Command Line Interface
344 ----------------------
346 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
348 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
353 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
358 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
360 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
361 parts are now included in replies.
363 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
364 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
365 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
366 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
368 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
370 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
372 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
374 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
375 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
376 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
377 forwards only the current message.
379 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
381 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
382 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
383 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
384 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
385 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
386 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
387 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
388 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
391 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
392 longer generate empty buffers
394 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
395 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
396 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
397 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
398 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
400 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
402 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
405 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
407 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
410 Address completion improvements
412 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
413 you previously configured one, customize the variable
414 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
415 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
416 interactive address completion.
418 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
420 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
421 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
422 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
427 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
428 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
429 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
435 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
436 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
437 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
438 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
439 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
440 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
442 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
443 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
444 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
445 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
446 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
447 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
449 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
450 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
452 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
453 =========================
458 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
461 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
463 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
464 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
465 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
467 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
468 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
470 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
471 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
472 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
474 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
476 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
477 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
478 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
479 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
480 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
481 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
486 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
487 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
490 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
493 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
495 Command Line Interface
496 ----------------------
498 Database revision tracking
500 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
501 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
502 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
503 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
505 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
507 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
508 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
509 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
510 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
511 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
512 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
513 manual page for further information.
518 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
520 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
521 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
523 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
525 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
526 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
527 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
529 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
531 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
533 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
534 customization as well.
536 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
538 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
540 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
542 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
544 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
545 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
546 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
547 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
549 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
551 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
552 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
553 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
554 this variable to 10000.
559 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
560 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
562 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
564 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
565 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
566 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
567 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
568 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
569 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
570 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
571 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
572 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
575 Database revision tracking
577 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
578 query parser and the new function
579 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
581 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
585 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
586 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
587 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
588 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
593 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
595 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
596 ===========================
601 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
603 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
604 ===========================
609 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
611 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
612 =========================
614 Command-Line Interface
615 ----------------------
617 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
619 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
620 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
621 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
623 Path to gpg is now configurable
625 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
626 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
631 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
633 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
638 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
643 Support messages without Message-IDs.
648 Undeprecate single message mboxes
650 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
651 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
653 New error logging facility
655 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
656 output formerly printed to stderr.
658 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
660 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
662 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
664 Fix for rounding of seconds
669 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
671 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
672 docmumentation has been removed.
674 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
676 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
677 some material from the relicensed wiki.
682 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
683 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
684 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
689 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
690 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
691 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
692 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
693 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
694 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
697 git checkout config origin/config
699 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
701 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
702 =========================
707 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
708 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
709 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
710 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
711 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
712 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
713 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
715 Command-Line Interface
716 ----------------------
718 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
720 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
721 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
722 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
723 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
724 script callers should still check the return value.
726 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
728 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
729 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
730 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
731 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
732 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
733 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
734 and returning success even if indexing fails).
736 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
738 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
739 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
740 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
742 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
744 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
745 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
746 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
747 currently unmaintained.
749 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
751 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
752 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
753 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
754 have at least `N` files associated with them.
756 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
758 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
759 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
760 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
761 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
762 count of duplicate addresses.
767 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
769 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
770 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
771 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
774 Improved handling of the unread tag
776 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
777 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
778 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
779 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
780 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
781 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
782 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
784 Expanded default saved search settings
786 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
787 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
789 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
791 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
792 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
793 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
795 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
797 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
798 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
799 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
800 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
801 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
802 the variable for details.
807 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
809 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
810 Representing these independently of the database version number will
811 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
812 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
814 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
816 Previously, library users were required to call
817 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
818 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
819 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
820 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
821 too out of date for that API.
823 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
825 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
826 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
827 atomic section will be aborted.
829 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
830 `notmuch_database_destroy`
832 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
834 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
835 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
836 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
837 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
838 messages into the same thread.
843 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
844 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
845 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
846 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
847 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
848 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
853 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
854 from the config file. Use something like:
858 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
859 "footer": "</body></html>",
868 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
873 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
874 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
875 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
877 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
878 ===========================
883 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
885 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
887 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
889 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
890 structure for signatures changed slightly.
892 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
894 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
897 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
898 ===========================
900 This is a bug fix and portability release.
905 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
907 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
909 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
911 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
913 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
919 Use --quick when starting emacs
921 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
923 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
925 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
927 Command-Line Interface
928 ----------------------
930 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
931 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
936 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
938 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
939 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
941 Fix for phrase indexing
943 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
944 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
945 will affect only newly indexed messages.
950 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
952 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
953 unintentionally removed.
955 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
956 =========================
961 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
962 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
963 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
964 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
965 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
966 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
967 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
968 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
969 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
975 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
977 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
978 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
979 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
980 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
981 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
982 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
983 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
984 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
986 There is a new `path:` search prefix
988 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
989 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
990 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
991 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
994 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
996 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
997 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
998 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
999 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1000 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1001 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1002 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1007 Notmuch database upgrade
1009 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1010 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1011 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1012 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1013 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1014 released version of Notmuch before now.
1016 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1018 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1019 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1020 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1021 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1023 Message header parsing changes
1025 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1026 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1027 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1028 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1029 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1030 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1032 Command-Line Interface
1033 ----------------------
1035 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1037 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1039 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1041 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1043 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1045 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1046 user does not want it.
1048 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1050 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1051 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
1052 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1053 support formatted output.
1055 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1057 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1058 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1059 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1067 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1068 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1069 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1070 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1071 `~/.emacs` with these.
1073 Changed format for saved searches
1075 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1076 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1077 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1078 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1081 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1082 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1083 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1084 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1086 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1087 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1088 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1090 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1091 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1092 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1093 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1094 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1096 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1098 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1099 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1100 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1102 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1104 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1105 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1106 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1107 message had been unread).
1109 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1110 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1111 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1112 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1114 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1115 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1116 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1118 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1119 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1120 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1121 to tags already present.
1125 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1126 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1127 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1128 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1129 these differ from each other.
1130 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1132 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1134 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1135 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1136 for these Emacs versions.
1138 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1140 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1141 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1143 Bug fixes for sender identities
1145 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1146 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1147 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1149 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1151 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1152 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1153 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1154 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1156 Reply pushes mark before signature
1158 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1159 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1160 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1162 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1164 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1165 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1171 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1172 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1174 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1175 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1176 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1177 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1179 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1180 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1181 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1182 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1183 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1185 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
1187 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1188 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1190 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1191 =========================
1193 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1194 ---------------------------------------
1196 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1197 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1198 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1199 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1200 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1201 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1202 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1206 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1207 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1209 Command-Line Interface
1210 ----------------------
1212 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1214 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1215 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1216 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1217 print for each message.
1219 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1220 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1221 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1222 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1224 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1226 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1227 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1228 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1230 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1232 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1233 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1234 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1235 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1237 `notmuch compact` command
1239 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1240 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1241 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1242 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1243 move the compacted database into place.
1248 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1250 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1251 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1252 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1253 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1254 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1255 and multiple threads.
1257 Using `notmuch-tree`
1259 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1261 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1262 search, show and tree mode itself)
1264 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1267 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1268 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1270 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1272 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1273 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1274 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1275 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1276 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1277 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1278 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1280 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1282 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1283 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1284 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1285 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1286 thread when the search was performed.
1288 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1290 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1291 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1292 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1294 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1296 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1297 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1300 Built-in help improvements
1302 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1303 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1304 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1306 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1308 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1309 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1310 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1312 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1314 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1315 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1317 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1319 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1320 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1321 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1322 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1324 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1326 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1327 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1328 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1329 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1331 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1333 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1334 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1335 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1337 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1339 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1340 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1341 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1343 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1345 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1346 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1347 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1348 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1349 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1351 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1353 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1354 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1355 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1356 the body part of the message.
1361 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1362 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1363 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1365 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1366 =========================
1368 Command-Line Interface
1369 ----------------------
1371 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1373 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1374 folder and notmuch index.
1376 `notmuch count --batch` option
1378 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1379 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1381 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1383 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1384 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1385 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1388 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1390 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1391 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1392 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1393 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1394 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1397 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1399 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1400 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1402 Top level option to specify configuration file
1404 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1405 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1407 Bash command-line completion
1409 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1410 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1411 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1412 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1413 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1414 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1415 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1416 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1417 bash-completion package.
1419 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1424 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1426 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1427 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1428 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1429 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1430 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1431 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1432 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1433 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1435 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1437 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1438 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1439 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1441 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1443 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1444 previous thread in the search results.
1446 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1448 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1449 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1451 Faster search and show
1453 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1454 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1455 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1456 threads should show faster.
1460 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1461 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1462 in question was now removed from this release.
1467 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1468 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1473 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1475 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1476 ===========================
1481 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1483 Internal test framework changes
1484 -------------------------------
1486 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1487 being unimplemented.
1489 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1490 ===========================
1492 Internal test framework changes
1493 -------------------------------
1495 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1496 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1498 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1499 =========================
1504 Date range search support
1506 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1507 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1508 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1509 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1510 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1513 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1515 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1516 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1517 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1518 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1519 but may be removed in a future release.
1521 Command-Line Interface
1522 ----------------------
1524 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1526 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1527 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1529 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1531 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1532 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1533 officially deprecated.
1535 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1537 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1538 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1539 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1541 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1543 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1544 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1547 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1548 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1549 dump/restore format.
1551 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1553 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1554 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1555 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1557 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1559 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1560 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1561 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1563 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1565 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1566 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1567 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1568 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1573 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1575 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1576 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1577 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1578 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1580 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1582 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1583 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1584 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1585 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1586 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1587 the behavior of this, see
1588 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1589 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1591 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1592 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1593 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1595 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1597 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1598 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1601 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1603 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1604 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1605 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1606 simply displayed in place of the message.
1608 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1610 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1611 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1613 Improved text/calendar content handling
1615 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1616 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1617 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1618 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1620 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1622 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1623 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1624 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1625 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1627 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1629 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1630 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1631 for HTML email containing images.
1633 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1635 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1637 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1639 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1642 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1644 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1645 the point where it was.
1647 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1649 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1650 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1651 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1652 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1653 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1655 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1657 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1658 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1659 thread instead of the message id.
1661 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1662 -----------------------------
1664 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1665 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1666 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1667 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1668 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1669 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1670 further details and installation.
1675 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1677 Internal test framework changes
1678 -------------------------------
1680 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1682 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1683 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1684 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1685 can result in buggy behavior.
1687 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1688 =========================
1693 Maildir tag synchronization
1695 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1696 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1697 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1698 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1699 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1700 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1703 Command-Line Interface
1704 ----------------------
1706 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1707 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1708 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1709 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1710 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1716 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1718 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1720 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1721 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1722 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1724 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1726 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1727 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1728 span multiple lines.
1730 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1732 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1733 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1734 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1735 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1736 inside the result or message.
1738 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1740 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1741 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1743 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1744 user-specified formatting
1746 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1747 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1748 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1749 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1750 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1752 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1753 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1755 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1756 ===========================
1761 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1762 compilation error for this contrib package.
1764 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1765 ===========================
1770 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1772 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1773 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1774 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1775 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1777 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1778 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1781 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1782 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1783 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1784 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1787 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1789 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1792 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1793 =========================
1795 Command-Line Interface
1796 ----------------------
1800 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1801 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1802 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1803 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1805 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1806 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1807 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1808 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1812 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1813 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1815 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1816 tag in your query, for example:
1818 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1820 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1821 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1823 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1824 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1826 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1828 Raw show format changes
1830 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1831 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1832 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1833 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1834 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1835 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1836 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1837 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1839 Listing configuration items
1841 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1847 Changes to tagging interface
1849 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1850 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1851 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1852 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1853 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1854 for more information.
1856 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1857 may need to update in custom configurations.
1859 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1861 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1862 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1863 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1864 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1867 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1868 -----------------------------
1870 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1871 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1872 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1873 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1874 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1875 contrib/ from now on.
1880 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1881 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1883 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1884 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1886 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1887 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1888 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1890 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1891 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1893 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1894 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1895 returning the new database object or directory object.
1902 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1903 compatible with go 1.
1905 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1906 =========================
1908 Command-Line Interface
1909 ----------------------
1913 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1914 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1915 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1916 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1918 Mail store folder/file ignore
1920 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1921 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1922 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1924 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1925 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1927 Unified help and manual pages
1929 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1930 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1933 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1935 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1936 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1944 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1945 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1946 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1947 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1949 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1951 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1952 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1954 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1957 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1958 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1959 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1961 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1963 should be changed to:
1965 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1967 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1969 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1970 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1972 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1974 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1975 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1976 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1977 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1978 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1979 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1983 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1984 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1985 of Mailing List Archives.
1987 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1989 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1990 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1993 Show view archiving key binding changes
1995 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1996 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1997 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1998 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1999 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2002 Support text/calendar MIME type
2004 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2007 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2009 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2010 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2011 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2012 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2014 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2016 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2017 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2018 messages blue by default in the search view.
2022 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2023 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2030 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2033 Python bindings changes
2034 -----------------------
2036 Python 3.2 compatibility
2038 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2040 Added missing unicode conversions
2042 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2043 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2044 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2049 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2051 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2052 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2053 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2054 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2055 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2057 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2058 ===========================
2063 Fix error handling in python bindings
2065 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2066 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2067 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2068 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2070 Quote MML tags in replies
2072 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2073 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2074 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2075 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2076 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2077 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2078 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2079 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2081 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2082 =========================
2084 Command-Line Interface
2085 ----------------------
2089 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2090 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2091 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2092 importing new messages into the database.
2094 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2096 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2097 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2098 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2103 Automatic tag query optimization
2105 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2106 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2107 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2109 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2111 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2112 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2113 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2118 Reduction of memory leaks
2120 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2121 and fixed in this release.
2128 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2129 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2130 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2133 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2135 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2136 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2137 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2140 Improvements in saved search management
2142 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2143 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2144 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2146 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2148 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2149 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2150 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2152 New face for crypto parts headers
2154 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2155 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2156 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2159 Use space as default thousands separator
2161 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2162 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2163 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2165 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2166 buttonized id: links
2168 New function notmuch-show-advance
2170 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2171 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2172 be bound to SPC with:
2174 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2176 Various performance improvements
2181 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2182 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2185 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2186 ===========================
2191 Fix crash in python bindings
2193 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2194 for some, but not all users.
2196 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2197 ===========================
2202 Fix `--help` argument
2204 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2205 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2206 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2208 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2209 =========================
2211 New build and testing features
2212 ------------------------------
2214 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2215 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2216 prerequisites is improved.
2218 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2220 New command-line features
2221 -------------------------
2223 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2225 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2226 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2229 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2231 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2232 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2233 favour of using stdout.
2235 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2237 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2238 limit the number of results shown.
2240 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2242 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2243 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2246 New emacs UI features
2247 ---------------------
2249 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2251 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2252 starting with "tag:".
2254 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2256 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2257 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2259 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2261 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2263 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2265 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2266 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2271 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2273 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2275 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2276 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2277 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2278 requires a database rebuild:
2280 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2281 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2283 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2285 New collection of add-on tools
2286 ------------------------------
2288 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2289 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2290 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2293 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2295 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2296 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
2297 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2299 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2300 ========================
2302 New, general features
2303 ---------------------
2305 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2307 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2308 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2309 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2310 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2311 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2318 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2319 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2321 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2325 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2326 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2327 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2330 Python bindings changes
2331 -----------------------
2333 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2335 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2336 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2337 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2338 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2339 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2340 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2342 Ruby bindings changes
2343 ---------------------
2345 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2346 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2347 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2348 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2353 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2355 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2356 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2358 Reply formatting cleanup
2359 ------------------------
2361 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2362 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2364 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2365 ========================
2367 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2369 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2370 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2371 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2372 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2375 Improved Build system portability
2377 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2378 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2379 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2381 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2383 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2385 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2387 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2388 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2389 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2391 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2392 ========================
2394 Vim interface improvements
2395 --------------------------
2397 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2399 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2400 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2401 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2402 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2403 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2405 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2407 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2408 * fix compose temp file name
2410 Python Bindings changes
2411 -----------------------
2413 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2415 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2416 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2418 Build-System improvements
2419 -------------------------
2421 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2423 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2426 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2427 ==========================
2432 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2434 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2435 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2437 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2438 =======================
2440 New, general features
2441 ---------------------
2443 Folder-based searching
2445 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2446 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2447 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2451 For example, one might use things such as:
2457 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2458 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2460 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2461 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2462 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2463 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2465 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2466 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2467 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2470 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2471 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2473 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2475 Support for PGP/MIME
2477 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2478 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2479 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2481 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2483 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2484 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2486 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2487 notmuch will receive these tags.
2489 New command-line features
2490 -------------------------
2492 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2494 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2495 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2497 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2499 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2500 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2501 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2503 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2505 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2506 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2507 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2508 which parts a signature part applies).
2510 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2512 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2513 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2514 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2515 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2516 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2519 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2521 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2522 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2523 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2524 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2525 by translating it internally to the new call.
2527 Performance improvements
2528 ------------------------
2530 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2532 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2533 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2534 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2536 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2537 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2539 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2541 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2542 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2543 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2545 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2546 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2547 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2548 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2550 Faster initial indexing
2552 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2553 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2554 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2556 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2558 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2559 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2560 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2561 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2563 New emacs-interface features
2564 ----------------------------
2566 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2568 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2569 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2570 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2571 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2572 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2573 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2575 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2577 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2578 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2579 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2580 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2582 User-selectable From address
2584 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2585 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2586 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2587 will prompt for the from address to use.
2589 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2590 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2591 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2593 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2594 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2595 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2598 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2600 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2601 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2603 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2605 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2607 ----- Original Message -----
2609 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2610 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2611 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2612 citations work much like conventional citations.
2614 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2616 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2617 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2618 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2619 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2620 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2622 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2623 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2625 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2627 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2628 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2629 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2631 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2633 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2634 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2635 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2636 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2637 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2639 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2641 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2644 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2646 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2648 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2650 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2653 Vim interface improvements
2654 --------------------------
2656 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2658 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2659 * Implementing archive in show view
2660 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2661 * Add delete commands
2664 Bindings improvements
2665 ---------------------
2667 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2669 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2670 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2672 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2674 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
2678 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2679 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2680 `list(Messages)` works now
2681 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2683 These allow, for example:
2685 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2687 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2689 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2695 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2697 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2700 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2702 New build-system features
2703 -------------------------
2705 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2707 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2708 the configure script from some other directory:
2715 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2717 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2718 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2719 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2720 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2721 manual invocation of configure.
2723 New test-suite feature
2724 ----------------------
2726 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2728 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2729 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2730 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2731 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2732 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2735 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2737 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2738 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2739 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2740 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2741 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2742 are updated to take advantage of this.
2744 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2746 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2747 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2748 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2749 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2755 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2757 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2758 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2759 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2761 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2763 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2765 to:user@elsewhere.com
2767 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2769 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2771 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2773 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2774 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2775 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2778 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2779 from the Received headers in some cases
2781 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2782 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2784 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2786 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2788 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2790 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2791 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2792 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2794 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2795 -------------------------
2797 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2799 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2800 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2801 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2803 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2805 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2806 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2807 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2810 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2812 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2813 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2814 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2815 fixed to avoid this bug.
2817 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2819 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2820 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2822 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2823 ========================
2825 New, general features
2826 ---------------------
2828 Maildir-flag synchronization
2830 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2831 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2840 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2842 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2843 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2844 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2845 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2847 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2848 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2849 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2850 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2853 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2855 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2856 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2857 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2859 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2860 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2862 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2863 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2865 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2866 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2867 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2869 New library features
2870 --------------------
2872 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2874 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2875 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2876 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2877 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2879 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2880 message with the new function:
2882 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2884 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2885 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2886 over all available filenames for a given message.
2888 New command-line features
2889 -------------------------
2891 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2893 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2894 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2895 access to the mail store itself.
2897 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2898 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2899 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2900 name of a script containing:
2902 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2904 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2905 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2911 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2913 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2915 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2917 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2918 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2919 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2920 now produces nothing).
2922 Emacs interface improvements
2923 ----------------------------
2925 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2927 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2929 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2931 Display current thread subject in a header line
2933 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2935 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2937 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2938 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2939 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2940 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2941 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2942 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2943 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2945 Vim interface improvements
2946 --------------------------
2948 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2950 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2951 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2957 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2959 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2960 ========================
2962 New command-line features
2963 -------------------------
2965 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2967 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2968 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2969 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2971 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2972 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2973 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2974 scripts. For example:
2976 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2977 <operations-on> "$file"
2980 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2982 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2983 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2984 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2985 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2986 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2987 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2989 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2991 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2992 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2993 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2994 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2996 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2998 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2999 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3000 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3001 default rather than Bcc.
3003 New library features
3004 --------------------
3006 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3008 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3009 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3014 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3016 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3017 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3018 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3019 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3020 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3021 notmuch customize interface.
3023 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3025 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3026 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3027 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3028 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3030 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3032 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3033 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3034 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3035 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3037 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3039 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3040 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3041 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3042 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3043 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3044 notmuch customize interface.
3046 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3048 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3049 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3050 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3051 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3052 notmuch customize interface.
3054 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3056 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3057 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3058 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3059 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3062 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3064 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3065 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3066 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3069 New build-system features
3070 -------------------------
3072 Various portability fixes have been applied
3074 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3075 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3076 more portable than ever before.
3078 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3080 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3081 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3082 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3084 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3085 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3086 automatically run ldconfig.
3088 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3089 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3090 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3092 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3093 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3094 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3095 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3097 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3099 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3100 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3101 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3102 used in the resulting Makefile.
3104 New test-suite features
3105 -----------------------
3107 New modularization of test suite
3109 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3110 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3111 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3112 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3113 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3114 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3115 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3116 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3118 New testing of emacs interface
3120 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3121 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3122 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3123 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3124 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3125 database via the FCC setting.
3130 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3132 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3133 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3134 persistent error of the form:
3136 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3138 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3139 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3141 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3143 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3144 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3145 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3147 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3149 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3150 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3151 parsing the notmuch results).
3153 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3155 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3158 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3159 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3160 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3165 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3167 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3168 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3169 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3170 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3171 the emacs interface.
3173 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3175 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3176 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3177 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3179 Python-binding fixes
3180 --------------------
3182 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3184 Debian-specific fixes
3185 ---------------------
3187 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3189 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3190 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3191 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3194 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3195 ==========================
3200 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3202 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3203 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3204 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3205 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3207 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3209 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3210 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3211 want notmuch to crash.
3216 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3218 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3219 directory does not exist
3224 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3226 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3227 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3229 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3230 ========================
3232 New command-line features
3233 -------------------------
3235 User-configurable tags for new messages
3237 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3238 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3239 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3240 to specify this value.
3242 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3244 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3245 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3246 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3248 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3250 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3251 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3253 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3255 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3256 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3257 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3258 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3259 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3262 Indication of author names that match a search
3264 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3265 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3266 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3267 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3268 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3269 messages in the thread are listed first.
3271 New: Python bindings
3272 --------------------
3274 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3275 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3276 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3277 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3279 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3280 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3281 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3284 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3285 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3286 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3288 Emacs interface improvements
3289 ----------------------------
3291 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3293 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3294 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3295 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3296 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3297 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3298 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3299 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3300 but without any of the disadvantages).
3302 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3303 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3304 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3307 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3308 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3309 instead running something like:
3311 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3313 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3314 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3315 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3318 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3320 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3321 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3322 tweaked by the user.
3324 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3325 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3326 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3329 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3330 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3331 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3334 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3336 This support currently relies on an external program,
3337 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3338 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3339 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3340 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3341 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3344 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3345 notmuch) is available via:
3347 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3349 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3350 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3351 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3353 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3355 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3356 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3357 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3358 making this automatic in a future release.
3360 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3362 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3363 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3364 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3365 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3366 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3367 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3370 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3372 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3373 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3374 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3376 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3378 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3379 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3380 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3382 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3383 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3384 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3385 other representation.
3387 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3388 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3391 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3393 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3394 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3395 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3397 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3398 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3399 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3401 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3403 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3404 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3405 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3406 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3407 to display the search result.
3409 More flexible handling of header visibility
3411 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3412 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3413 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3414 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3415 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3416 with the 'h' keybinding.
3418 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3419 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3420 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3422 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3424 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3426 Customizable formatting of search results
3428 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3429 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3430 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3432 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3434 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3436 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3441 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3443 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3444 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3445 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3446 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3452 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3454 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3455 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3457 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3459 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3460 accept are now all accepted.
3465 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3467 Better display of output from failed tests
3469 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3470 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3472 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3473 ========================
3475 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3476 detailed release notes this time!
3478 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3479 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3481 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3482 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3483 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3484 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3491 Better guessing of From: header
3493 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3494 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3495 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3496 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3497 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3500 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3502 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3503 guaranteed to match all messages.
3505 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3507 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3508 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3509 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3510 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3511 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3514 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3517 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3518 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3519 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3520 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3525 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3527 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3528 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3529 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3530 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3532 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3534 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3536 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3537 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3538 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3540 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3542 Previously, the user might see:
3544 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3548 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3550 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3551 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3552 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3553 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3555 Emacs client features
3556 ---------------------
3558 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3560 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3561 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3562 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3563 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3564 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3566 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3569 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3570 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3571 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3572 search with the '*' binding.
3574 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3576 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3577 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3580 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3582 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3583 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3584 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3586 Build-system features
3587 ---------------------
3589 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3591 Add support to configure for many standard options
3593 We include actual support for:
3595 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3597 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3599 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3600 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3602 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3603 separate "make install-emacs"
3605 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3607 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3608 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3609 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3611 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3614 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3615 ========================
3617 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3619 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3620 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3622 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3623 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3624 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3625 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3626 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3627 tags from messages in a thread.
3634 indent-tabs-mode: nil