1 Notmuch 0.21 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
10 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
12 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
13 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
14 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
16 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
18 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
19 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
20 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
21 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
22 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
23 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
28 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
29 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
32 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
35 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
37 Command Line Interface
38 ----------------------
40 Database revision tracking
42 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
43 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
44 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
45 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
50 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
52 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
53 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
55 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
57 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
58 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
59 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
64 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
65 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`.
67 Database revision tracking
69 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
70 query parser and the new function
71 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
73 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}.
77 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
78 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
79 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
80 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
82 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
83 ===========================
88 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
90 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
91 ===========================
96 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
98 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
99 =========================
101 Command-Line Interface
102 ----------------------
104 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
106 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
107 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
108 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
110 Path to gpg is now configurable
112 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
113 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
118 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
120 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
125 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
130 Support messages without Message-IDs.
135 Undeprecate single message mboxes
137 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
138 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
140 New error logging facility
142 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
143 output formerly printed to stderr.
145 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
147 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
149 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
151 Fix for rounding of seconds
156 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
158 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
159 docmumentation has been removed.
161 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
163 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
164 some material from the relicensed wiki.
169 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
170 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
171 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
176 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
177 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
178 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
179 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
180 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
181 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
184 git checkout config origin/config
186 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
188 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
189 =========================
194 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
195 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
196 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
197 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
198 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
199 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
200 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
202 Command-Line Interface
203 ----------------------
205 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
207 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
208 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
209 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
210 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
211 script callers should still check the return value.
213 `notmuch insert` requires succesful message indexing for success status
215 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
216 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
217 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
218 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
219 succesful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
220 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
221 and returning success even if indexing fails).
223 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
225 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
226 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
227 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
229 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
231 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
232 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
233 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
234 currently unmaintained.
236 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
238 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
239 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
240 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
241 have at least `N` files associated with them.
243 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
245 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
246 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
247 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
248 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
249 count of duplicate addresses.
254 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
256 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
257 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
258 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
261 Improved handling of the unread tag
263 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
264 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
265 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
266 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
267 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
268 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
269 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
271 Expanded default saved search settings
273 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
274 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
276 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
278 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
279 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
280 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
282 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
284 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
285 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
286 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
287 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
288 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
289 the variable for details.
294 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
296 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
297 Representing these independently of the database version number will
298 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
299 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
301 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
303 Previously, library users were required to call
304 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
305 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
306 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
307 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
308 too out of date for that API.
310 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
312 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
313 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
314 atomic section will be aborted.
316 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
317 `notmuch_database_destroy`
319 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
321 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
322 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
323 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
324 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
325 messages into the same thread.
330 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
331 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
332 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
333 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
334 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
335 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
340 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
341 from the config file. Use something like:
345 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
346 "footer": "</body></html>",
355 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
360 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
361 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
362 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
364 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
365 ===========================
370 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
372 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
374 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
376 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
377 structure for signatures changed slightly.
379 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
381 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
384 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
385 ===========================
387 This is a bug fix and portability release.
392 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
394 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
396 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
398 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
400 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
406 Use --quick when starting emacs
408 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
410 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
412 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
414 Command-Line Interface
415 ----------------------
417 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
418 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
423 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
425 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
426 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
428 Fix for phrase indexing
430 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
431 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
432 will affect only newly indexed messages.
437 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
439 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
440 unintentionally removed.
442 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
443 =========================
448 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
449 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
450 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
451 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
452 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
453 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
454 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
455 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
456 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
462 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
464 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
465 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
466 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
467 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
468 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
469 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
470 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
471 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
473 There is a new `path:` search prefix
475 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
476 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
477 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
478 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
481 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
483 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
484 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
485 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
486 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
487 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
488 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
489 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
494 Notmuch database upgrade
496 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
497 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
498 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
499 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
500 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
501 released version of Notmuch before now.
503 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
505 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
506 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
507 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
508 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
510 Message header parsing changes
512 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
513 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
514 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
515 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
516 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
517 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
519 Command-Line Interface
520 ----------------------
522 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
524 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
526 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
528 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
530 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
532 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
533 user does not want it.
535 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
537 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
538 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
539 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
540 support formatted output.
542 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
544 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
545 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
546 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
554 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
555 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
556 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
557 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
558 `~/.emacs` with these.
560 Changed format for saved searches
562 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
563 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
564 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
565 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
568 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
569 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
570 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
571 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
573 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
574 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
575 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
577 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
578 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
579 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
580 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
581 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
583 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
585 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
586 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
587 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
589 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
591 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
592 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
593 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
594 message had been unread).
596 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
597 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
598 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
599 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
601 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
602 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
603 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
605 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
606 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
607 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
608 to tags already present.
612 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
613 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
614 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
615 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
616 these differ from each other.
617 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
619 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
621 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
622 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
623 for these Emacs versions.
625 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
627 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
628 newlines before calling notmuch count.
630 Bug fixes for sender identities
632 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
633 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
634 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
636 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
638 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
639 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
640 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
641 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
643 Reply pushes mark before signature
645 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
646 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
647 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
649 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
651 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
652 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
658 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
659 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
661 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
662 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
663 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
664 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
666 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
667 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
668 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
669 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
670 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
672 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
674 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
675 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
677 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
678 =========================
680 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
681 ---------------------------------------
683 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
684 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
685 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
686 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
687 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
688 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
689 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
693 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
694 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
696 Command-Line Interface
697 ----------------------
699 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
701 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
702 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
703 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
704 print for each message.
706 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
707 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
708 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
709 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
711 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
713 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
714 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
715 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
717 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
719 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
720 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
721 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
722 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
724 `notmuch compact` command
726 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
727 functionality through a more convenient interface than
728 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
729 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
730 move the compacted database into place.
735 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
737 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
738 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
739 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
740 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
741 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
742 and multiple threads.
746 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
748 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
749 search, show and tree mode itself)
751 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
754 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
755 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
757 Customising `notmuch-tree`
759 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
760 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
761 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
762 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
763 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
764 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
765 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
767 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
769 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
770 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
771 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
772 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
773 thread when the search was performed.
775 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
777 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
778 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
779 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
781 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
783 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
784 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
787 Built-in help improvements
789 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
790 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
791 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
793 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
795 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
796 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
797 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
799 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
801 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
802 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
804 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
806 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
807 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
808 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
809 to move some of them to the common keymap.
811 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
813 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
814 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
815 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
816 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
818 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
820 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
821 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
822 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
824 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
826 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
827 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
828 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
830 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
832 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
833 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
834 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
835 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
836 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
838 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
840 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
841 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
842 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
843 the body part of the message.
848 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
849 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
850 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
852 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
853 =========================
855 Command-Line Interface
856 ----------------------
858 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
860 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
861 folder and notmuch index.
863 `notmuch count --batch` option
865 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
866 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
868 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
870 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
871 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
872 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
875 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
877 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
878 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
879 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
880 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
881 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
884 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
886 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
887 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
889 Top level option to specify configuration file
891 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
892 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
894 Bash command-line completion
896 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
897 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
898 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
899 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
900 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
901 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
902 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
903 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
904 bash-completion package.
906 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
911 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
913 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
914 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
915 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
916 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
917 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
918 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
919 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
920 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
922 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
924 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
925 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
926 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
928 Key bindings for next/previous thread
930 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
931 previous thread in the search results.
933 Better handling of errors in search buffers
935 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
936 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
938 Faster search and show
940 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
941 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
942 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
943 threads should show faster.
947 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
948 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
949 in question was now removed from this release.
954 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
955 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
960 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
962 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
963 ===========================
968 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
970 Internal test framework changes
971 -------------------------------
973 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
976 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
977 ===========================
979 Internal test framework changes
980 -------------------------------
982 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
983 build failures in non-interactive environments.
985 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
986 =========================
991 Date range search support
993 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
994 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
995 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
996 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
997 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1000 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1002 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1003 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1004 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1005 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1006 but may be removed in a future release.
1008 Command-Line Interface
1009 ----------------------
1011 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1013 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1014 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1016 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1018 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1019 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1020 officially deprecated.
1022 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1024 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1025 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1026 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1028 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1030 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1031 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1034 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1035 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1036 dump/restore format.
1038 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1040 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1041 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1042 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1044 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1046 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1047 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1048 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1050 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1052 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1053 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1054 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1055 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1060 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1062 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1063 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1064 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1065 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1067 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1069 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1070 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1071 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1072 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1073 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1074 the behavior of this, see
1075 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1076 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1078 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1079 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1080 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1082 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1084 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1085 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1088 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1090 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1091 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1092 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1093 simply displayed in place of the message.
1095 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1097 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1098 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1100 Improved text/calendar content handling
1102 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1103 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1104 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1105 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1107 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1109 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1110 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1111 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1112 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1114 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1116 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1117 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1118 for HTML email containing images.
1120 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1122 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1124 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1126 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1129 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1131 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1132 the point where it was.
1134 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1136 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1137 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1138 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1139 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1140 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1142 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1144 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1145 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1146 thread instead of the message id.
1148 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1149 -----------------------------
1151 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1152 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1153 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1154 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1155 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1156 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1157 further details and installation.
1162 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1164 Internal test framework changes
1165 -------------------------------
1167 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1169 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1170 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1171 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1172 can result in buggy behavior.
1174 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1175 =========================
1180 Maildir tag synchronization
1182 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1183 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1184 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1185 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1186 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1187 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1190 Command-Line Interface
1191 ----------------------
1193 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1194 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1195 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1196 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1197 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1203 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1205 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1207 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1208 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1209 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1211 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1213 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1214 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1215 span multiple lines.
1217 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1219 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1220 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1221 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1222 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1223 inside the result or message.
1225 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1227 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1228 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1230 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1231 user-specified formatting
1233 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1234 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1235 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1236 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1237 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1239 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1240 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1242 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1243 ===========================
1248 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1249 compilation error for this contrib package.
1251 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1252 ===========================
1257 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1259 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1260 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1261 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1262 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1264 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1265 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1268 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1269 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1270 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1271 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1274 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1276 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1279 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1280 =========================
1282 Command-Line Interface
1283 ----------------------
1287 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1288 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1289 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1290 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1292 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1293 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1294 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1295 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1299 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1300 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1302 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1303 tag in your query, for example:
1305 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1307 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1308 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1310 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1311 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1313 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1315 Raw show format changes
1317 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1318 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1319 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1320 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1321 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1322 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1323 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1324 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1326 Listing configuration items
1328 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1334 Changes to tagging interface
1336 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1337 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1338 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1339 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1340 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1341 for more information.
1343 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1344 may need to update in custom configurations.
1346 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1348 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1349 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1350 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1351 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1354 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1355 -----------------------------
1357 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1358 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1359 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1360 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1361 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1362 contrib/ from now on.
1367 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1368 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1370 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1371 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1373 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1374 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1375 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1377 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1378 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1380 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1381 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1382 returning the new database object or directory object.
1389 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1390 compatible with go 1.
1392 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1393 =========================
1395 Command-Line Interface
1396 ----------------------
1400 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1401 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1402 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1403 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1405 Mail store folder/file ignore
1407 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1408 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1409 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1411 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1412 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1414 Unified help and manual pages
1416 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1417 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1420 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1422 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1423 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1431 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1432 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1433 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1434 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1436 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1438 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1439 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1441 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1444 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1445 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1446 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1448 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1450 should be changed to:
1452 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1454 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1456 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1457 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1459 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1461 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1462 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1463 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1464 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1465 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1466 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1470 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1471 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1472 of Mailing List Archives.
1474 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1476 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1477 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1480 Show view archiving key binding changes
1482 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1483 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1484 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1485 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1486 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1489 Support text/calendar MIME type
1491 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1494 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1496 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1497 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1498 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1499 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1501 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1503 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1504 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1505 messages blue by default in the search view.
1509 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1510 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1517 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1520 Python bindings changes
1521 -----------------------
1523 Python 3.2 compatibility
1525 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1527 Added missing unicode conversions
1529 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1530 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1531 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1536 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1538 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1539 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1540 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1541 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1542 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1544 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1545 ===========================
1550 Fix error handling in python bindings
1552 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1553 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1554 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1555 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1557 Quote MML tags in replies
1559 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1560 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1561 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1562 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1563 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1564 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1565 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1566 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1568 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1569 =========================
1571 Command-Line Interface
1572 ----------------------
1576 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1577 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1578 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1579 importing new messages into the database.
1581 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1583 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1584 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1585 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1590 Automatic tag query optimization
1592 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1593 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1594 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1596 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1598 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1599 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1600 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1605 Reduction of memory leaks
1607 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1608 and fixed in this release.
1615 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1616 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1617 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1620 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1622 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1623 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1624 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1627 Improvements in saved search management
1629 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1630 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1631 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1633 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1635 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1636 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1637 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1639 New face for crypto parts headers
1641 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1642 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1643 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1646 Use space as default thousands separator
1648 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1649 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1650 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1652 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1653 buttonized id: links
1655 New function notmuch-show-advance
1657 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1658 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1659 be bound to SPC with:
1661 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1663 Various performance improvements
1668 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1669 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1672 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1673 ===========================
1678 Fix crash in python bindings
1680 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1681 for some, but not all users.
1683 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1684 ===========================
1689 Fix `--help` argument
1691 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1692 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1693 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1695 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1696 =========================
1698 New build and testing features
1699 ------------------------------
1701 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1702 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1703 prerequisites is improved.
1705 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1707 New command-line features
1708 -------------------------
1710 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1712 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1713 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1716 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1718 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1719 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1720 favour of using stdout.
1722 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1724 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1725 limit the number of results shown.
1727 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1729 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1730 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1733 New emacs UI features
1734 ---------------------
1736 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1738 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1739 starting with "tag:".
1741 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1743 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1744 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1746 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1748 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1750 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1752 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1753 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1758 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1760 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1762 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1763 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1764 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1765 requires a database rebuild:
1767 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1768 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1770 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1772 New collection of add-on tools
1773 ------------------------------
1775 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1776 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1777 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1780 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1782 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1783 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1784 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1786 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1787 ========================
1789 New, general features
1790 ---------------------
1792 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1794 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1795 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1796 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1797 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1798 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1805 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1806 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1808 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1812 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1813 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1814 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1817 Python bindings changes
1818 -----------------------
1820 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1822 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1823 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1824 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1825 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1826 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1827 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1829 Ruby bindings changes
1830 ---------------------
1832 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1833 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1834 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1835 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1840 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1842 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1843 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1845 Reply formatting cleanup
1846 ------------------------
1848 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1849 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1851 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1852 ========================
1854 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1856 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1857 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1858 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1859 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1862 Improved Build system portability
1864 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1865 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1866 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1868 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1870 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1872 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1874 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1875 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1876 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1878 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1879 ========================
1881 Vim interface improvements
1882 --------------------------
1884 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1886 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1887 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1888 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1889 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1890 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1892 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1894 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1895 * fix compose temp file name
1897 Python Bindings changes
1898 -----------------------
1900 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1902 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1903 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1905 Build-System improvements
1906 -------------------------
1908 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1910 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1913 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1914 ==========================
1919 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1921 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1922 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1924 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1925 =======================
1927 New, general features
1928 ---------------------
1930 Folder-based searching
1932 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1933 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1934 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1938 For example, one might use things such as:
1944 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1945 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1947 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1948 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1949 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1950 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1952 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1953 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1954 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1957 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1958 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1960 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1962 Support for PGP/MIME
1964 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1965 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1966 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1968 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1970 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1971 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1973 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1974 notmuch will receive these tags.
1976 New command-line features
1977 -------------------------
1979 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1981 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1982 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1984 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1986 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1987 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1988 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1990 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1992 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1993 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1994 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1995 which parts a signature part applies).
1997 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1999 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2000 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2001 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2002 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2003 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2006 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2008 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2009 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2010 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2011 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2012 by translating it internally to the new call.
2014 Performance improvements
2015 ------------------------
2017 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2019 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2020 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2021 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2023 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2024 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2026 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2028 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2029 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2030 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2032 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2033 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2034 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2035 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2037 Faster initial indexing
2039 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2040 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2041 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2043 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2045 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2046 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2047 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2048 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2050 New emacs-interface features
2051 ----------------------------
2053 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2055 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2056 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2057 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2058 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2059 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2060 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2062 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2064 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2065 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2066 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2067 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2069 User-selectable From address
2071 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2072 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2073 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2074 will prompt for the from address to use.
2076 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2077 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2078 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2080 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2081 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2082 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2085 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2087 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2088 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2090 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2092 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2094 ----- Original Message -----
2096 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2097 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2098 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2099 citations work much like conventional citations.
2101 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2103 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2104 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2105 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2106 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2107 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2109 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2110 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2112 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2114 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2115 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2116 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2118 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2120 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2121 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2122 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2123 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2124 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2126 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2128 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2131 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2133 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2135 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2137 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2140 Vim interface improvements
2141 --------------------------
2143 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2145 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2146 * Implementing archive in show view
2147 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2148 * Add delete commands
2151 Bindings improvements
2152 ---------------------
2154 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2156 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2157 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2159 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2161 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
2165 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2166 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2167 `list(Messages)` works now
2168 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2170 These allow, for example:
2172 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2174 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2176 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2182 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2184 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2187 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2189 New build-system features
2190 -------------------------
2192 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2194 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2195 the configure script from some other directory:
2202 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2204 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2205 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2206 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2207 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2208 manual invocation of configure.
2210 New test-suite feature
2211 ----------------------
2213 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2215 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2216 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2217 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2218 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2219 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2222 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2224 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2225 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2226 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2227 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2228 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2229 are updated to take advantage of this.
2231 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2233 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2234 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2235 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2236 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2242 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2244 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2245 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2246 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2248 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2250 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2252 to:user@elsewhere.com
2254 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2256 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2258 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2260 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2261 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2262 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2265 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2266 from the Received headers in some cases
2268 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2269 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2271 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2273 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2275 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2277 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2278 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2279 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2281 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2282 -------------------------
2284 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2286 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2287 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2288 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2290 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2292 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2293 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2294 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2297 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2299 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2300 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2301 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2302 fixed to avoid this bug.
2304 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2306 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2307 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2309 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2310 ========================
2312 New, general features
2313 ---------------------
2315 Maildir-flag synchronization
2317 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2318 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2327 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2329 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2330 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2331 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2332 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2334 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2335 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2336 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2337 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2340 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2342 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2343 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2344 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2346 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2347 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2349 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2350 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2352 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2353 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2354 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2356 New library features
2357 --------------------
2359 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2361 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2362 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2363 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2364 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2366 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2367 message with the new function:
2369 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2371 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2372 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2373 over all available filenames for a given message.
2375 New command-line features
2376 -------------------------
2378 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2380 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2381 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2382 access to the mail store itself.
2384 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2385 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2386 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2387 name of a script containing:
2389 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2391 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2392 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2398 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2400 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2402 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2404 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2405 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2406 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2407 now produces nothing).
2409 Emacs interface improvements
2410 ----------------------------
2412 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2414 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2416 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2418 Display current thread subject in a header line
2420 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2422 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2424 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2425 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2426 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2427 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2428 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2429 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2430 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2432 Vim interface improvements
2433 --------------------------
2435 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2437 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2438 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2444 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2446 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2447 ========================
2449 New command-line features
2450 -------------------------
2452 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2454 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2455 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2456 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2458 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2459 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2460 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2461 scripts. For example:
2463 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2464 <operations-on> "$file"
2467 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2469 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2470 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2471 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2472 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2473 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2474 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2476 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2478 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2479 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2480 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2481 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2483 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2485 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2486 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2487 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2488 default rather than Bcc.
2490 New library features
2491 --------------------
2493 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2495 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2496 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2501 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2503 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2504 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2505 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2506 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2507 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2508 notmuch customize interface.
2510 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2512 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2513 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2514 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2515 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2517 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2519 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2520 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2521 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2522 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2524 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2526 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2527 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2528 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2529 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2530 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2531 notmuch customize interface.
2533 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2535 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2536 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2537 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2538 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2539 notmuch customize interface.
2541 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2543 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2544 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2545 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2546 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2549 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2551 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2552 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2553 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2556 New build-system features
2557 -------------------------
2559 Various portability fixes have been applied
2561 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2562 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2563 more portable than ever before.
2565 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2567 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2568 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2569 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2571 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2572 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2573 automatically run ldconfig.
2575 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2576 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2577 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2579 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2580 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2581 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2582 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2584 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2586 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2587 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2588 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2589 used in the resulting Makefile.
2591 New test-suite features
2592 -----------------------
2594 New modularization of test suite
2596 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2597 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2598 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2599 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2600 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2601 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2602 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2603 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2605 New testing of emacs interface
2607 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2608 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2609 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2610 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2611 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2612 database via the FCC setting.
2617 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2619 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2620 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2621 persistent error of the form:
2623 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2625 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2626 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2628 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2630 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2631 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2632 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2634 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2636 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2637 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2638 parsing the notmuch results).
2640 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2642 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2645 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2646 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2647 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2652 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2654 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2655 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2656 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2657 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2658 the emacs interface.
2660 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2662 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2663 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2664 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2666 Python-binding fixes
2667 --------------------
2669 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2671 Debian-specific fixes
2672 ---------------------
2674 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2676 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2677 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2678 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2681 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2682 ==========================
2687 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2689 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2690 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2691 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2692 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2694 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2696 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2697 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2698 want notmuch to crash.
2703 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2705 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2706 directory does not exist
2711 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2713 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2714 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2716 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2717 ========================
2719 New command-line features
2720 -------------------------
2722 User-configurable tags for new messages
2724 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2725 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2726 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2727 to specify this value.
2729 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2731 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2732 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2733 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2735 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2737 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2738 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2740 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2742 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2743 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2744 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2745 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2746 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2749 Indication of author names that match a search
2751 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2752 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2753 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2754 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2755 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2756 messages in the thread are listed first.
2758 New: Python bindings
2759 --------------------
2761 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2762 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2763 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2764 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2766 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2767 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2768 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2771 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2772 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2773 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2775 Emacs interface improvements
2776 ----------------------------
2778 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2780 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2781 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2782 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2783 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2784 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2785 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2786 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2787 but without any of the disadvantages).
2789 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2790 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2791 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2794 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2795 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2796 instead running something like:
2798 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2800 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2801 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2802 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2805 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2807 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2808 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2809 tweaked by the user.
2811 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2812 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2813 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2816 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2817 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2818 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2821 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2823 This support currently relies on an external program,
2824 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2825 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2826 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2827 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2828 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2831 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2832 notmuch) is available via:
2834 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2836 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2837 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2838 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2840 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2842 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2843 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2844 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2845 making this automatic in a future release.
2847 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2849 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2850 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2851 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
2852 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2853 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2854 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2857 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2859 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2860 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2861 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2863 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2865 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2866 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2867 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2869 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2870 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2871 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2872 other representation.
2874 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2875 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2878 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2880 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2881 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2882 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2884 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2885 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2886 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2888 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2890 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2891 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2892 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2893 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2894 to display the search result.
2896 More flexible handling of header visibility
2898 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2899 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2900 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2901 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2902 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2903 with the 'h' keybinding.
2905 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2906 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2907 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2909 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2911 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2913 Customizable formatting of search results
2915 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2916 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2917 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2919 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2921 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2923 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2928 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2930 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2931 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2932 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2933 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2939 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2941 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2942 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2944 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2946 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2947 accept are now all accepted.
2952 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2954 Better display of output from failed tests
2956 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2957 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2959 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2960 ========================
2962 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2963 detailed release notes this time!
2965 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2966 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2968 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2969 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2970 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2971 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2978 Better guessing of From: header
2980 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2981 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2982 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2983 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2984 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2987 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2989 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2990 guaranteed to match all messages.
2992 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2994 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2995 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2996 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2997 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2998 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3001 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3004 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3005 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3006 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3007 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3012 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3014 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3015 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3016 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3017 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3019 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3021 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3023 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3024 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3025 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3027 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3029 Previously, the user might see:
3031 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3035 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3037 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3038 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3039 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3040 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3042 Emacs client features
3043 ---------------------
3045 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3047 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3048 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3049 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3050 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3051 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3053 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3056 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3057 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3058 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3059 search with the '*' binding.
3061 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3063 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3064 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3067 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3069 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3070 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3071 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3073 Build-system features
3074 ---------------------
3076 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3078 Add support to configure for many standard options
3080 We include actual support for:
3082 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3084 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3086 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3087 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3089 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3090 separate "make install-emacs"
3092 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3094 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3095 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3096 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3098 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3101 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3102 ========================
3104 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3106 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3107 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3109 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3110 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3111 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3112 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3113 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3114 tags from messages in a thread.
3121 indent-tabs-mode: nil