1 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
2 ===========================
7 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
9 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
10 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
11 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
13 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
15 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
17 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
18 ===========================
23 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
25 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
30 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
32 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
33 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
36 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
37 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
39 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
41 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
42 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
43 bug, and hence the test.
45 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
46 =========================
51 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
53 Support for single argument date: queries
55 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
57 Support for blocking opens
59 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
60 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
62 Support for named queries
64 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
65 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
66 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
73 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
74 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
75 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
76 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
78 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
80 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
85 Support for compile time options
87 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
88 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
91 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
93 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
94 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
95 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
96 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
102 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
104 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
105 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
106 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
108 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
109 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
110 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
111 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
112 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
113 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
114 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
116 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
117 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
120 Make internal address completion customizable
122 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
123 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
124 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
125 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
128 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
130 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
131 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
132 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
133 completion for the current buffer.
135 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
136 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
137 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
141 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
142 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
143 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
144 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
145 will be added instead.
147 Face customization is easier
149 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
150 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
151 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
152 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
154 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
159 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
164 Go bindings moved to contrib
166 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
168 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
170 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
171 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
173 The same issue occured with sort modes.
175 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
176 ===========================
183 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
184 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
186 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
188 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
190 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
191 ===========================
196 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
198 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
203 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
208 Use `env` to locate perl.
213 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
215 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
217 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
219 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
221 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
222 =========================
229 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
230 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
232 Limited support for S/MIME messages
234 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
235 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
236 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
241 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
242 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
243 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
245 Command Line Interface
246 ----------------------
248 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
250 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
255 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
260 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
262 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
263 parts are now included in replies.
265 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
266 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
267 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
268 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
270 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
272 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
274 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
276 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
277 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
278 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
279 forwards only the current message.
281 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
283 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
284 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
285 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
286 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
287 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
288 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
289 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
290 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
293 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
294 longer generate empty buffers
296 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
297 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
298 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
299 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
300 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
302 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
304 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
307 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
309 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
312 Address completion improvements
314 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
315 you previously configured one, customize the variable
316 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
317 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
318 interactive address completion.
320 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
322 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
323 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
324 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
329 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
330 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
331 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
337 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
338 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
339 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
340 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
341 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
342 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
344 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
345 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
346 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
347 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
348 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
349 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
351 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
352 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
354 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
355 =========================
360 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
363 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
365 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
366 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
367 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
369 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
370 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
372 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
373 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
374 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
376 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
378 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
379 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
380 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
381 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
382 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
383 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
388 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
389 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
392 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
395 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
397 Command Line Interface
398 ----------------------
400 Database revision tracking
402 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
403 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
404 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
405 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
407 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
409 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
410 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
411 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
412 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
413 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
414 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
415 manual page for further information.
420 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
422 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
423 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
425 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
427 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
428 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
429 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
431 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
433 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
435 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
436 customization as well.
438 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
440 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
442 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
444 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
446 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
447 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
448 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
449 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
451 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
453 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
454 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
455 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
456 this variable to 10000.
461 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
462 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
464 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
466 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
467 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
468 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
469 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
470 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
471 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
472 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
473 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
474 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
477 Database revision tracking
479 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
480 query parser and the new function
481 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
483 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
487 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
488 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
489 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
490 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
495 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
497 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
498 ===========================
503 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
505 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
506 ===========================
511 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
513 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
514 =========================
516 Command-Line Interface
517 ----------------------
519 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
521 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
522 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
523 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
525 Path to gpg is now configurable
527 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
528 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
533 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
535 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
540 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
545 Support messages without Message-IDs.
550 Undeprecate single message mboxes
552 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
553 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
555 New error logging facility
557 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
558 output formerly printed to stderr.
560 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
562 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
564 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
566 Fix for rounding of seconds
571 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
573 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
574 docmumentation has been removed.
576 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
578 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
579 some material from the relicensed wiki.
584 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
585 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
586 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
591 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
592 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
593 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
594 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
595 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
596 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
599 git checkout config origin/config
601 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
603 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
604 =========================
609 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
610 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
611 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
612 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
613 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
614 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
615 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
617 Command-Line Interface
618 ----------------------
620 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
622 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
623 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
624 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
625 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
626 script callers should still check the return value.
628 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
630 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
631 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
632 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
633 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
634 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
635 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
636 and returning success even if indexing fails).
638 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
640 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
641 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
642 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
644 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
646 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
647 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
648 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
649 currently unmaintained.
651 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
653 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
654 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
655 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
656 have at least `N` files associated with them.
658 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
660 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
661 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
662 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
663 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
664 count of duplicate addresses.
669 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
671 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
672 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
673 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
676 Improved handling of the unread tag
678 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
679 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
680 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
681 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
682 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
683 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
684 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
686 Expanded default saved search settings
688 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
689 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
691 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
693 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
694 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
695 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
697 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
699 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
700 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
701 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
702 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
703 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
704 the variable for details.
709 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
711 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
712 Representing these independently of the database version number will
713 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
714 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
716 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
718 Previously, library users were required to call
719 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
720 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
721 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
722 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
723 too out of date for that API.
725 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
727 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
728 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
729 atomic section will be aborted.
731 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
732 `notmuch_database_destroy`
734 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
736 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
737 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
738 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
739 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
740 messages into the same thread.
745 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
746 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
747 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
748 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
749 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
750 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
755 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
756 from the config file. Use something like:
760 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
761 "footer": "</body></html>",
770 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
775 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
776 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
777 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
779 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
780 ===========================
785 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
787 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
789 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
791 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
792 structure for signatures changed slightly.
794 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
796 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
799 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
800 ===========================
802 This is a bug fix and portability release.
807 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
809 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
811 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
813 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
815 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
821 Use --quick when starting emacs
823 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
825 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
827 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
829 Command-Line Interface
830 ----------------------
832 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
833 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
838 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
840 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
841 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
843 Fix for phrase indexing
845 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
846 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
847 will affect only newly indexed messages.
852 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
854 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
855 unintentionally removed.
857 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
858 =========================
863 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
864 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
865 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
866 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
867 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
868 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
869 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
870 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
871 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
877 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
879 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
880 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
881 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
882 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
883 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
884 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
885 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
886 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
888 There is a new `path:` search prefix
890 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
891 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
892 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
893 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
896 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
898 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
899 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
900 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
901 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
902 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
903 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
904 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
909 Notmuch database upgrade
911 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
912 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
913 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
914 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
915 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
916 released version of Notmuch before now.
918 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
920 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
921 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
922 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
923 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
925 Message header parsing changes
927 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
928 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
929 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
930 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
931 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
932 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
934 Command-Line Interface
935 ----------------------
937 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
939 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
941 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
943 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
945 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
947 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
948 user does not want it.
950 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
952 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
953 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
954 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
955 support formatted output.
957 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
959 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
960 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
961 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
969 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
970 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
971 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
972 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
973 `~/.emacs` with these.
975 Changed format for saved searches
977 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
978 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
979 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
980 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
983 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
984 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
985 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
986 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
988 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
989 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
990 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
992 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
993 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
994 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
995 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
996 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
998 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1000 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1001 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1002 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1004 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1006 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1007 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1008 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1009 message had been unread).
1011 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1012 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1013 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1014 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1016 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1017 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1018 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1020 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1021 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1022 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1023 to tags already present.
1027 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1028 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1029 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1030 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1031 these differ from each other.
1032 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1034 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1036 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1037 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1038 for these Emacs versions.
1040 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1042 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1043 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1045 Bug fixes for sender identities
1047 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1048 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1049 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1051 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1053 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1054 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1055 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1056 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1058 Reply pushes mark before signature
1060 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1061 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1062 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1064 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1066 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1067 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1073 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1074 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1076 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1077 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1078 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1079 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1081 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1082 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1083 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1084 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1085 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1087 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
1089 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1090 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1092 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1093 =========================
1095 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1096 ---------------------------------------
1098 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1099 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1100 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1101 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1102 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1103 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1104 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1108 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1109 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1111 Command-Line Interface
1112 ----------------------
1114 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1116 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1117 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1118 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1119 print for each message.
1121 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1122 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1123 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1124 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1126 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1128 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1129 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1130 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1132 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1134 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1135 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1136 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1137 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1139 `notmuch compact` command
1141 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1142 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1143 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1144 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1145 move the compacted database into place.
1150 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1152 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1153 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1154 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1155 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1156 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1157 and multiple threads.
1159 Using `notmuch-tree`
1161 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1163 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1164 search, show and tree mode itself)
1166 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1169 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1170 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1172 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1174 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1175 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1176 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1177 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1178 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1179 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1180 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1182 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1184 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1185 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1186 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1187 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1188 thread when the search was performed.
1190 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1192 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1193 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1194 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1196 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1198 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1199 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1202 Built-in help improvements
1204 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1205 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1206 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1208 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1210 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1211 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1212 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1214 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1216 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1217 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1219 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1221 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1222 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1223 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1224 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1226 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1228 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1229 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1230 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1231 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1233 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1235 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1236 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1237 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1239 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1241 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1242 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1243 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1245 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1247 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1248 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1249 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1250 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1251 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1253 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1255 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1256 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1257 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1258 the body part of the message.
1263 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1264 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1265 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1267 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1268 =========================
1270 Command-Line Interface
1271 ----------------------
1273 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1275 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1276 folder and notmuch index.
1278 `notmuch count --batch` option
1280 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1281 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1283 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1285 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1286 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1287 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1290 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1292 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1293 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1294 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1295 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1296 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1299 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1301 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1302 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1304 Top level option to specify configuration file
1306 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1307 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1309 Bash command-line completion
1311 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1312 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1313 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1314 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1315 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1316 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1317 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1318 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1319 bash-completion package.
1321 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1326 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1328 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1329 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1330 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1331 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1332 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1333 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1334 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1335 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1337 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1339 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1340 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1341 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1343 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1345 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1346 previous thread in the search results.
1348 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1350 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1351 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1353 Faster search and show
1355 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1356 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1357 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1358 threads should show faster.
1362 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1363 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1364 in question was now removed from this release.
1369 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1370 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1375 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1377 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1378 ===========================
1383 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1385 Internal test framework changes
1386 -------------------------------
1388 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1389 being unimplemented.
1391 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1392 ===========================
1394 Internal test framework changes
1395 -------------------------------
1397 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1398 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1400 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1401 =========================
1406 Date range search support
1408 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1409 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1410 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1411 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1412 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1415 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1417 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1418 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1419 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1420 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1421 but may be removed in a future release.
1423 Command-Line Interface
1424 ----------------------
1426 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1428 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1429 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1431 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1433 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1434 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1435 officially deprecated.
1437 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1439 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1440 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1441 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1443 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1445 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1446 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1449 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1450 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1451 dump/restore format.
1453 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1455 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1456 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1457 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1459 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1461 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1462 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1463 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1465 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1467 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1468 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1469 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1470 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1475 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1477 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1478 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1479 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1480 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1482 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1484 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1485 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1486 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1487 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1488 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1489 the behavior of this, see
1490 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1491 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1493 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1494 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1495 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1497 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1499 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1500 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1503 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1505 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1506 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1507 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1508 simply displayed in place of the message.
1510 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1512 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1513 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1515 Improved text/calendar content handling
1517 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1518 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1519 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1520 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1522 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1524 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1525 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1526 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1527 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1529 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1531 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1532 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1533 for HTML email containing images.
1535 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1537 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1539 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1541 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1544 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1546 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1547 the point where it was.
1549 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1551 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1552 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1553 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1554 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1555 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1557 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1559 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1560 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1561 thread instead of the message id.
1563 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1564 -----------------------------
1566 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1567 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1568 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1569 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1570 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1571 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1572 further details and installation.
1577 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1579 Internal test framework changes
1580 -------------------------------
1582 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1584 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1585 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1586 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1587 can result in buggy behavior.
1589 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1590 =========================
1595 Maildir tag synchronization
1597 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1598 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1599 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1600 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1601 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1602 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1605 Command-Line Interface
1606 ----------------------
1608 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1609 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1610 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1611 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1612 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1618 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1620 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1622 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1623 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1624 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1626 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1628 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1629 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1630 span multiple lines.
1632 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1634 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1635 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1636 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1637 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1638 inside the result or message.
1640 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1642 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1643 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1645 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1646 user-specified formatting
1648 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1649 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1650 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1651 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1652 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1654 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1655 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1657 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1658 ===========================
1663 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1664 compilation error for this contrib package.
1666 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1667 ===========================
1672 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1674 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1675 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1676 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1677 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1679 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1680 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1683 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1684 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1685 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1686 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1689 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1691 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1694 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1695 =========================
1697 Command-Line Interface
1698 ----------------------
1702 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1703 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1704 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1705 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1707 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1708 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1709 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1710 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1714 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1715 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1717 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1718 tag in your query, for example:
1720 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1722 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1723 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1725 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1726 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1728 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1730 Raw show format changes
1732 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1733 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1734 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1735 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1736 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1737 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1738 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1739 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1741 Listing configuration items
1743 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1749 Changes to tagging interface
1751 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1752 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1753 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1754 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1755 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1756 for more information.
1758 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1759 may need to update in custom configurations.
1761 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1763 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1764 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1765 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1766 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1769 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1770 -----------------------------
1772 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1773 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1774 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1775 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1776 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1777 contrib/ from now on.
1782 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1783 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1785 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1786 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1788 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1789 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1790 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1792 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1793 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1795 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1796 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1797 returning the new database object or directory object.
1804 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1805 compatible with go 1.
1807 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1808 =========================
1810 Command-Line Interface
1811 ----------------------
1815 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1816 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1817 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1818 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1820 Mail store folder/file ignore
1822 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1823 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1824 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1826 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1827 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1829 Unified help and manual pages
1831 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1832 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1835 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1837 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1838 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1846 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1847 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1848 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1849 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1851 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1853 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1854 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1856 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1859 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1860 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1861 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1863 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1865 should be changed to:
1867 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1869 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1871 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1872 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1874 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1876 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1877 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1878 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1879 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1880 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1881 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1885 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1886 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1887 of Mailing List Archives.
1889 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1891 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1892 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1895 Show view archiving key binding changes
1897 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1898 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1899 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1900 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1901 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1904 Support text/calendar MIME type
1906 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1909 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1911 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1912 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1913 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1914 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1916 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1918 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1919 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1920 messages blue by default in the search view.
1924 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1925 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1932 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1935 Python bindings changes
1936 -----------------------
1938 Python 3.2 compatibility
1940 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1942 Added missing unicode conversions
1944 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1945 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1946 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1951 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1953 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1954 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1955 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1956 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1957 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1959 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1960 ===========================
1965 Fix error handling in python bindings
1967 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1968 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1969 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1970 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1972 Quote MML tags in replies
1974 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1975 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1976 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1977 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1978 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1979 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1980 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1981 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1983 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1984 =========================
1986 Command-Line Interface
1987 ----------------------
1991 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1992 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1993 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1994 importing new messages into the database.
1996 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1998 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1999 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2000 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2005 Automatic tag query optimization
2007 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2008 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2009 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2011 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2013 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2014 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2015 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2020 Reduction of memory leaks
2022 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2023 and fixed in this release.
2030 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2031 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2032 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2035 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2037 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2038 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2039 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2042 Improvements in saved search management
2044 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2045 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2046 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2048 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2050 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2051 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2052 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2054 New face for crypto parts headers
2056 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2057 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2058 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2061 Use space as default thousands separator
2063 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2064 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2065 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2067 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2068 buttonized id: links
2070 New function notmuch-show-advance
2072 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2073 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2074 be bound to SPC with:
2076 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2078 Various performance improvements
2083 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2084 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2087 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2088 ===========================
2093 Fix crash in python bindings
2095 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2096 for some, but not all users.
2098 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2099 ===========================
2104 Fix `--help` argument
2106 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2107 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2108 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2110 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2111 =========================
2113 New build and testing features
2114 ------------------------------
2116 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2117 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2118 prerequisites is improved.
2120 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2122 New command-line features
2123 -------------------------
2125 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2127 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2128 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2131 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2133 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2134 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2135 favour of using stdout.
2137 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2139 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2140 limit the number of results shown.
2142 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2144 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2145 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2148 New emacs UI features
2149 ---------------------
2151 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2153 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2154 starting with "tag:".
2156 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2158 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2159 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2161 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2163 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2165 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2167 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2168 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2173 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2175 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2177 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2178 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2179 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2180 requires a database rebuild:
2182 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2183 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2185 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2187 New collection of add-on tools
2188 ------------------------------
2190 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2191 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2192 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2195 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2197 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2198 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
2199 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2201 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2202 ========================
2204 New, general features
2205 ---------------------
2207 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2209 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2210 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2211 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2212 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2213 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2220 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2221 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2223 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2227 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2228 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2229 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2232 Python bindings changes
2233 -----------------------
2235 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2237 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2238 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2239 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2240 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2241 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2242 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2244 Ruby bindings changes
2245 ---------------------
2247 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2248 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2249 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2250 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2255 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2257 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2258 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2260 Reply formatting cleanup
2261 ------------------------
2263 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2264 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2266 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2267 ========================
2269 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2271 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2272 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2273 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2274 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2277 Improved Build system portability
2279 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2280 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2281 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2283 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2285 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2287 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2289 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2290 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2291 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2293 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2294 ========================
2296 Vim interface improvements
2297 --------------------------
2299 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2301 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2302 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2303 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2304 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2305 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2307 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2309 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2310 * fix compose temp file name
2312 Python Bindings changes
2313 -----------------------
2315 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2317 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2318 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2320 Build-System improvements
2321 -------------------------
2323 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2325 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2328 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2329 ==========================
2334 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2336 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2337 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2339 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2340 =======================
2342 New, general features
2343 ---------------------
2345 Folder-based searching
2347 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2348 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2349 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2353 For example, one might use things such as:
2359 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2360 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2362 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2363 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2364 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2365 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2367 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2368 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2369 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2372 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2373 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2375 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2377 Support for PGP/MIME
2379 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2380 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2381 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2383 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2385 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2386 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2388 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2389 notmuch will receive these tags.
2391 New command-line features
2392 -------------------------
2394 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2396 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2397 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2399 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2401 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2402 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2403 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2405 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2407 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2408 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2409 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2410 which parts a signature part applies).
2412 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2414 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2415 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2416 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2417 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2418 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2421 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2423 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2424 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2425 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2426 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2427 by translating it internally to the new call.
2429 Performance improvements
2430 ------------------------
2432 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2434 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2435 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2436 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2438 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2439 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2441 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2443 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2444 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2445 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2447 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2448 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2449 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2450 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2452 Faster initial indexing
2454 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2455 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2456 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2458 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2460 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2461 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2462 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2463 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2465 New emacs-interface features
2466 ----------------------------
2468 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2470 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2471 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2472 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2473 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2474 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2475 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2477 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2479 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2480 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2481 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2482 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2484 User-selectable From address
2486 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2487 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2488 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2489 will prompt for the from address to use.
2491 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2492 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2493 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2495 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2496 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2497 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2500 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2502 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2503 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2505 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2507 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2509 ----- Original Message -----
2511 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2512 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2513 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2514 citations work much like conventional citations.
2516 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2518 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2519 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2520 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2521 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2522 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2524 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2525 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2527 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2529 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2530 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2531 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2533 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2535 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2536 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2537 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2538 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2539 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2541 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2543 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2546 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2548 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2550 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2552 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2555 Vim interface improvements
2556 --------------------------
2558 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2560 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2561 * Implementing archive in show view
2562 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2563 * Add delete commands
2566 Bindings improvements
2567 ---------------------
2569 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2571 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2572 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2574 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2576 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
2580 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2581 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2582 `list(Messages)` works now
2583 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2585 These allow, for example:
2587 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2589 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2591 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2597 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2599 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2602 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2604 New build-system features
2605 -------------------------
2607 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2609 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2610 the configure script from some other directory:
2617 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2619 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2620 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2621 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2622 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2623 manual invocation of configure.
2625 New test-suite feature
2626 ----------------------
2628 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2630 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2631 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2632 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2633 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2634 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2637 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2639 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2640 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2641 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2642 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2643 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2644 are updated to take advantage of this.
2646 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2648 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2649 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2650 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2651 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2657 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2659 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2660 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2661 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2663 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2665 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2667 to:user@elsewhere.com
2669 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2671 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2673 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2675 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2676 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2677 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2680 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2681 from the Received headers in some cases
2683 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2684 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2686 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2688 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2690 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2692 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2693 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2694 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2696 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2697 -------------------------
2699 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2701 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2702 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2703 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2705 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2707 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2708 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2709 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2712 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2714 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2715 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2716 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2717 fixed to avoid this bug.
2719 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2721 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2722 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2724 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2725 ========================
2727 New, general features
2728 ---------------------
2730 Maildir-flag synchronization
2732 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2733 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2742 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2744 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2745 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2746 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2747 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2749 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2750 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2751 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2752 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2755 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2757 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2758 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2759 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2761 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2762 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2764 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2765 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2767 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2768 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2769 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2771 New library features
2772 --------------------
2774 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2776 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2777 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2778 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2779 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2781 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2782 message with the new function:
2784 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2786 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2787 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2788 over all available filenames for a given message.
2790 New command-line features
2791 -------------------------
2793 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2795 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2796 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2797 access to the mail store itself.
2799 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2800 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2801 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2802 name of a script containing:
2804 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2806 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2807 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2813 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2815 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2817 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2819 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2820 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2821 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2822 now produces nothing).
2824 Emacs interface improvements
2825 ----------------------------
2827 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2829 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2831 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2833 Display current thread subject in a header line
2835 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2837 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2839 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2840 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2841 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2842 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2843 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2844 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2845 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2847 Vim interface improvements
2848 --------------------------
2850 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2852 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2853 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2859 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2861 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2862 ========================
2864 New command-line features
2865 -------------------------
2867 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2869 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2870 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2871 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2873 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2874 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2875 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2876 scripts. For example:
2878 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2879 <operations-on> "$file"
2882 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2884 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2885 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2886 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2887 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2888 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2889 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2891 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2893 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2894 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2895 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2896 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2898 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2900 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2901 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2902 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2903 default rather than Bcc.
2905 New library features
2906 --------------------
2908 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2910 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2911 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2916 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2918 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2919 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2920 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2921 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2922 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2923 notmuch customize interface.
2925 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2927 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2928 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2929 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2930 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2932 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2934 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2935 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2936 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2937 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2939 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2941 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2942 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2943 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2944 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2945 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2946 notmuch customize interface.
2948 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2950 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2951 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2952 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2953 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2954 notmuch customize interface.
2956 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2958 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2959 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2960 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2961 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2964 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2966 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2967 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2968 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2971 New build-system features
2972 -------------------------
2974 Various portability fixes have been applied
2976 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2977 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2978 more portable than ever before.
2980 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2982 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2983 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2984 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2986 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2987 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2988 automatically run ldconfig.
2990 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2991 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2992 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2994 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2995 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2996 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2997 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2999 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3001 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3002 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3003 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3004 used in the resulting Makefile.
3006 New test-suite features
3007 -----------------------
3009 New modularization of test suite
3011 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3012 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3013 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3014 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3015 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3016 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3017 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3018 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3020 New testing of emacs interface
3022 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3023 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3024 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3025 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3026 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3027 database via the FCC setting.
3032 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3034 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3035 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3036 persistent error of the form:
3038 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3040 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3041 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3043 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3045 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3046 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3047 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3049 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3051 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3052 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3053 parsing the notmuch results).
3055 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3057 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3060 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3061 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3062 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3067 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3069 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3070 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3071 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3072 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3073 the emacs interface.
3075 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3077 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3078 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3079 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3081 Python-binding fixes
3082 --------------------
3084 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3086 Debian-specific fixes
3087 ---------------------
3089 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3091 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3092 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3093 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3096 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3097 ==========================
3102 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3104 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3105 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3106 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3107 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3109 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3111 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3112 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3113 want notmuch to crash.
3118 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3120 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3121 directory does not exist
3126 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3128 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3129 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3131 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3132 ========================
3134 New command-line features
3135 -------------------------
3137 User-configurable tags for new messages
3139 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3140 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3141 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3142 to specify this value.
3144 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3146 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3147 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3148 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3150 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3152 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3153 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3155 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3157 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3158 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3159 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3160 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3161 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3164 Indication of author names that match a search
3166 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3167 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3168 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3169 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3170 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3171 messages in the thread are listed first.
3173 New: Python bindings
3174 --------------------
3176 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3177 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3178 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3179 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3181 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3182 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3183 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3186 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3187 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3188 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3190 Emacs interface improvements
3191 ----------------------------
3193 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3195 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3196 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3197 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3198 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3199 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3200 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3201 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3202 but without any of the disadvantages).
3204 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3205 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3206 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3209 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3210 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3211 instead running something like:
3213 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3215 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3216 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3217 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3220 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3222 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3223 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3224 tweaked by the user.
3226 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3227 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3228 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3231 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3232 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3233 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3236 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3238 This support currently relies on an external program,
3239 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3240 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3241 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3242 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3243 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3246 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3247 notmuch) is available via:
3249 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3251 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3252 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3253 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3255 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3257 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3258 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3259 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3260 making this automatic in a future release.
3262 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3264 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3265 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3266 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3267 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3268 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3269 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3272 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3274 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3275 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3276 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3278 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3280 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3281 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3282 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3284 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3285 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3286 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3287 other representation.
3289 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3290 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3293 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3295 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3296 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3297 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3299 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3300 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3301 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3303 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3305 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3306 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3307 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3308 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3309 to display the search result.
3311 More flexible handling of header visibility
3313 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3314 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3315 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3316 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3317 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3318 with the 'h' keybinding.
3320 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3321 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3322 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3324 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3326 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3328 Customizable formatting of search results
3330 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3331 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3332 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3334 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3336 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3338 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3343 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3345 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3346 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3347 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3348 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3354 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3356 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3357 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3359 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3361 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3362 accept are now all accepted.
3367 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3369 Better display of output from failed tests
3371 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3372 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3374 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3375 ========================
3377 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3378 detailed release notes this time!
3380 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3381 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3383 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3384 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3385 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3386 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3393 Better guessing of From: header
3395 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3396 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3397 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3398 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3399 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3402 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3404 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3405 guaranteed to match all messages.
3407 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3409 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3410 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3411 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3412 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3413 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3416 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3419 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3420 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3421 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3422 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3427 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3429 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3430 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3431 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3432 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3434 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3436 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3438 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3439 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3440 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3442 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3444 Previously, the user might see:
3446 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3450 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3452 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3453 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3454 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3455 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3457 Emacs client features
3458 ---------------------
3460 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3462 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3463 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3464 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3465 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3466 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3468 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3471 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3472 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3473 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3474 search with the '*' binding.
3476 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3478 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3479 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3482 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3484 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3485 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3486 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3488 Build-system features
3489 ---------------------
3491 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3493 Add support to configure for many standard options
3495 We include actual support for:
3497 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3499 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3501 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3502 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3504 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3505 separate "make install-emacs"
3507 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3509 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3510 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3511 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3513 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3516 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3517 ========================
3519 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3521 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3522 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3524 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3525 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3526 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3527 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3528 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3529 tags from messages in a thread.
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