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David Bremner 3a175ddffb NEWS: initial set of NEWS for 0.37. 
There are one or two more changes to apply (and potentially document)
before release, but this covers most of my commits.
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Notmuch 0.37 (UNRELEASED)
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Library
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Fix uninitialized field in message objects.
Improve exception handling and error propagation for message objects.
Sexp Queries
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Add one sided lastmod ranges for sexp queries.
Expand macro parameters inside regex and wildcard modifiers.
Command Line Interface
----------------------
`notmuch help` now works for external commands.
`NOTMUCH_CONFIG` is now passed to external commands and hooks.
Promote the development tool `nmbug` to a user facing tool
`notmuch-git`. See notmuch-git(1) for details.
Emacs
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The function `notmuch-mua-mail` now moves point depending on the
provided arguments.
Restrict what mime types are inlined in replies and on refresh.
The functions in notmuch-query.el are now obsolete and may be removed
in a future version of Notmuch.
Add some controls for lazy display of message bodies (See "Dealing
with large messages and threads" in the notmuch-emacs documentation).
Allow the user to select (with '%') a different duplicate message file
to display.
Notmuch 0.36 (2022-04-25)
=========================
Library
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Add the `sexp` prefix to the infix (traditional) query parser. This
allows specific subqueries to be parsed by the sexp parser (with
appropropriate quoting). See `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
Add another heuristic to regexp fields to prevent phrase parsing of
bracketed sub-expressions.
Command Line Interface
----------------------
Envelope from ("From ") headers are now escaped as X-Envelope-From: in
input to `notmuch-insert`. This prevents creating mbox files when
calling `notmuch-insert` from e.g. `postfix`.
Python (CFFI) Bindings
----------------------
Use the `config_pairs` API in ConfigIterator. This returns all
matching key-value pairs, not just those that happen to be stored in
the database.
Documentation
-------------
Reorganize documention for `notmuch-config`. Add a few links from
other man pages.
Emacs
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Bind the usual undo key sequences to new command
"notmuch-tag-undo". This allows transparent undo of tagging
operations.
Tests
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Fix smime.4 with newer gmime. Unset `XDG_DATA_HOME` and `MAILDIR` for tests.
New add-on tool: notmuch-web
-----------------------------
The new devel/ tool `notmuch-web` is a very thin web client. It
supports a full search interface for one user: there is no facility
for multiple users provided today. See the notmuch-web README file
for more information.
Be careful about running it on a network-connected system: it will
expose a web interface that requires no authentication but exposes
your mail store.
Notmuch 0.35 (2022-02-06)
=========================
Library
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Implement the `date` and `lastmod` fields in the S-expression parser.
Ignore trailing `/` for pathnames in both query parsers.
Rename configuration option `built_with.sexpr_query` to
`built_with.sexp_queries`.
Do not assume a default mail root in split (e.g. XDG) configurations.
Fix some small memory leaks in `notmuch_database_open_with_config`.
CLI
---
Improve handling of leading/trailing punctation and space for
configuration lists.
Only ignore `.notmuch` at the top level in `notmuch new`.
Optionally show extra headers in `notmuch show`. See
`show.extra_headers` in notmuch-config(1).
Emacs
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Drop `C-TAB` binding in hello mode, document `backtab`.
Fix visual glitch in search mode by running `notmuch-search-hook`
lazily.
Don't add space to completion candidates, improves compatibility with
third party completion frameworks.
Make citation formating more robust against whitespace.
Use `--excludes=false` when generating the 'All tags' section.
Use cached copy of message body for `Fcc`, avoiding variant bodies for
signed and/or encrypted messages.
Add notmuch-logo.svg and use it in notmuch-hello view, replacing
the .png version.
Make header line in show buffers optional.
Add customizable names for search buffers.
Build
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Fix out-of-tree build for `python-cffi` bindings.
Rearrange position of {C,CXX,CPP,LD}FLAGS, prevent some clashes with
installed version of notmuch.
Ignore more configure options.
Test Suite
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Replace some uses of `gdb` in the test suite with `LD_PRELOAD` based
shims.
Use `--with-colons` for gpgsm, fix compatibility with newer gnupg.
Python bindings
---------------
Add `matched` property to message objects.
Users are reminded that the old python bindings in bindings/python are
deprecated; this will probably be the last major release that ships
them.
Completion
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Use `database.mail_root` for path completion in bash/zsh.
Notmuch 0.34.3 (2022-01-09)
===========================
Library
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Do not crash when presented with a .notmuch directory without a
xapian/ subdirectory.
Python Bindings (notmuch2)
--------------------------
Database constructor now searches for configuration by default. Pass
`config=Database.CONFIG.EMPTY` to disable.
The `Message.replies()` method now returns OwnedMessage objects, to
prevent certain memory de-allocation errors.
Fix for importing `notmuch2` module when building bindings
documentation.
Notmuch 0.34.2 (2021-12-09)
===========================
Library
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Fix a bug that wrongly resolved conflict between the `database_path`
parameter to `notmuch_database_open_with_config` and configuration
item `database.path` in favour of the latter.
Python Bindings (notmuch2)
--------------------------
When building the documentation for the `notmuch2` python module,
import from the built module, not a system wide installed one.
The notmuch2.Database constructor now uses the library function
`notmuch_database_open_with_config` to support the same configuration
and database location options as the library does.
Fix some unprintable exception objects.
Notmuch 0.34.1 (2021-11-03)
===========================
Library
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Fix for deallocation and nulling of output parameter for
notmuch_database_{open_with,create_with,load}_config when errors
occur. This change fixes a potential use-after-free bug that has been
present since 0.32. This release also improves the documentation of
status returns for the same 3 functions.
Notmuch 0.34 (2021-10-20)
=========================
General
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An optional new s-expression based query parser is available if
notmuch is built with the `sfsexp` library. See
notmuch-sexp-queries(7) for syntax, and use `notmuch config get
built_with.sexpr_query` to check if notmuch is compiled with
s-expression query support.
CLI
---
Support multiple `Delivered-To` headers in notmuch-reply(1).
Emacs
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Functions are now allowed in `notmuch-search-result-format`.
Improvements to unthreaded view on large threads.
Tolerate bad/missing working directory for most commands.
Allow customization of tree drawing symbols in notmuch-tree mode.
Notmuch 0.33.2 (2021-09-30)
===========================
Tests
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Improve reliability of T355-smime by changing gpgsm initialization.
Notmuch 0.33.1 (2021-09-10)
===========================
General
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Replace the fully-qualified-domain-name of the host with "localhost"
in the default email address. This should fix two flaky subtests in
T590-libconfig.
Notmuch 0.33 (2021-09-03)
=========================
Library
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Correct documentation about transactions.
Add a configurable automatic commit of transactions. See
`database.autocommit` in notmuch-config(1).
Document the algorithm used to find a database.
CLI
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Define format version 5, which supports sorting the output of
notmuch-show.
Emacs
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`notmuch` no longer sets `mail-user-agent` on load. To restore the
previous behaviour of using notmuch to send mail by default, customize
`mail-user-agent` to `notmuch-user-agent`.
`notmuch-company` now works in `org-msg`.
Improve the display of messages from long threads in unthreaded mode.
Prefer email addresses over User ID when showing valid signatures.
Define a new face `notmuch-jump-key`.
New commands in notmuch-tree view: `notmuch-tree-filter` and `notmuch-tree-filter-by-tag`.
Honour `notmuch-show-text/html-blocked-images` when using `w3m` to
render html.
Support toggling sort order in notmuch-tree mode.
Ruby
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Memory management of allocated notmuch objects (database, messages,
etc...) is now done via the Ruby GC. This removes all constraints on
the order of object destruction. Database close and destroy are
split, following an old library API change.
Vim
---
Respect excluded tags when showing a thread.
Documentation
-------------
Fix doc build for Sphinx 4.0.
Improve the markup and linking of the documentation.
Notmuch 0.32.3 (2021-08-17)
===========================
Library
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Restore location of database via `MAILDIR` environment variable, which
was broken in 0.32.
Bump libnotmuch minor version to match the documentation in
`notmuch.h`.
Correct documentation for deprecated database opening functions to
point out that they (still) do not load configuration information.
CLI
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Restore "notmuch config get built_with.*", which was broken in 0.32.
Notmuch 0.32.2 (2021-06-27)
===========================
General
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Fix a bug from 2017 that can add duplicate thread-id terms to message
documents.
CLI
---
Fix small memory leak in notmuch new.
Emacs
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Add `(require 'seq)` for `seq-some`.
Documentation
-------------
Fix man page build for Sphinx 4.x. Fix variable name in emacs docs.
Tests
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Fix backup creation in `perf-test/T00-new`. Check openssl
prerequisite in `add_gpgsm_home`.
Notmuch 0.32.1 (2021-05-15)
===========================
General
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Restore handling of relative values for `database.path` that was
broken by 0.32. Extend this handling to `database.mail_root`,
`database.backup_dir`, and `database.hook_dir`.
Reload certain metadata from Xapian database in
notmuch_database_reopen. This fixes a bug when adding messages to the
database in a pre-new hook.
Fix default of `$HOME/mail` for `database.path`. In release 0.32, this
default worked only in "notmuch config".
Emacs
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Restore the dynamically bound variables `tag-changes` and `query` in
in `notmuch-before-tag-hook` and `notmuch-after-tag-hook`.
Add `notmuch-jump-key` face to fontify keys in `notmuch-jump` and
related functions. To ensure backward compatibility, the new face
inherits from `minibuffer-prompt`.
Notmuch 0.32 (2021-05-02)
=========================
General
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This release includes a significant overhaul of the configuration
management facilities for notmuch. The previous distinction between
configuration items that can be modified via plain text configuration
files and those that must be set in the database via the "notmuch
config" subcommand is gone, and all configuration items can be set in
both ways. The external configuration file overrides configuration
items in the database. The location of database, hooks, and
configuration files is now more flexible, with several new
configuration variables. In particular XDG locations are now supported
as fallbacks for database, configuration and hooks. For more
information see `notmuch-config(1)`.
Library
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To support the new configuration facilities, several functions and
constants have been added to the notmuch API. Most notably:
- `notmuch_database_create_with_config`
- `notmuch_database_open_with_config`
- `notmuch_database_load_config`
- `notmuch_config_get`
A previously requested API change is that `notmuch_database_reopen` is
now exposed (and generalized).
The previously severe slowdowns from large numbers calls to
notmuch_database_remove_message or notmuch_message_delete in one
session has been fixed.
As always, the canonical source of API documentation is
`lib/notmuch.h`, or the doxygen formatted documentation in `notmuch(3)`.
CLI
---
The `notmuch config set` subcommand gained a `--database` argument to
specify that the database should be updated, rather than a config file.
The speed of `notmuch new` and `notmuch reindex` in dealing with large
numbers of mail file deletions is significantly improved.
Emacs
-----
Completion related updates include: de-duplicating tags offered for
completion, use the actual initial input in address completion, allow
users to opt out of notmuch address completion, and do not force Ido
when prompting for senders.
Some keymaps used to contain bindings for unnamed commands. These
lambda expressions have been replaced by named commands (symbols), to
ease customization.
Lexical binding is now used in all notmuch-emacs libraries.
Fix bug in calling `notmuch-mua-mail` with a non-nil RETURN-ACTION.
Removed, inlined or renamed functions and variables:
`notmuch-address-locate-command`,
`notmuch-documentation-first-line`, `notmuch-folder`,
`notmuch-hello-trim', `notmuch-hello-versions` => `notmuch-version`,
`notmuch-remove-if-not`, `notmuch-search-disjunctive-regexp`,
`notmuch-sexp-eof`, `notmuch-split-content-type`, and
`notmuch-tree-button-activate`.
Keymaps are no longer fset, which means they need to be referred to in
define-key directly (without quotes). If your Emacs configuration has a
keybinding like:
(define-key 'notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
you should change it to:
(define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
Notmuch 0.31.4 (2021-02-18)
===========================
Library
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Fix include bug triggered by glib 2.67.
Test
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Fix race condition in T568-lib-thread.
Notmuch 0.31.3 (2020-12-25)
===========================
Bindings
--------
Fix for exclude tags in notmuch2 bindings.
Build
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Portability update for T360-symbol-hiding.
Library
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Fix for memory error in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
Notmuch 0.31.2 (2020-11-08)
===========================
Build
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Catch one more occurence of "version" in the build system, which
caused the file to be regenerated in the release tarball.
Notmuch 0.31.1 (2020-11-08)
===========================
Library
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Fix a memory initialization bug in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
Build
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Rename file 'version' to 'version.txt'. The old file name conflicted
with a C++ header for some compilers.
Replace use of coreutils `realpath` in configure.
Notmuch 0.31 (2020-09-05)
=========================
Emacs
-----
Notmuch now supports Emacs 27.1. You may need to set
`mml-secure-openpgp-sign-with-sender` and/or
`mml-secure-smime-sign-with-sender` to continue signing messages.
The minimum supported major version of GNU Emacs is now 25.1.
Add support for moving between threads after notmuch-tree-from-search-thread.
New `notmuch-unthreaded` mode (added in Notmuch 0.30)
Unthreaded view is a mode where each matching message is shown on a
separate line.
The main key entries to unthreaded view are
'u' enter a query to view in unthreaded mode (works in hello,
search, show and tree mode)
'U' view the current query in unthreaded mode (works from search,
show and tree)
Saved searches can also specify that they should open in unthreaded
view.
Currently it is not possible to specify the sort order: it will
always be newest first.
Notmuch-Mutt
------------
The shell pipeline executed by notmuch-mutt, which symlinked matched
files to a maildir for mutt to access is replaced with internal perl
processing. This search operation is now more portable, and somewhat
faster.
Library
-------
Improve exception handling in the library. This should
largely eliminate terminations inside the library due to uncaught
exceptions or internal errors. No doubt there are a few uncovered
code paths still; please report them as bugs.
Add `notmuch_message_get_flag_st` and
`notmuch_message_has_maildir_flag_st`, and deprecate the existing
non-status providing versions.
Move memory de-allocation from `notmuch_database_close` to
`notmuch_database_destroy`.
Handle relative filenames in `notmuch_database_index_file`, as
promised in the documentation.
Python Bindings
---------------
Documentation for the python bindings is merged into the main
sphinx-doc documentation tree. The merged documentation can be built
with e.g. `make sphinx-html`
Dependencies
------------
We now support building notmuch against Xapian 1.5 (the current
development version).
Test Suite
----------
Test suite fixes for compatibility with Emacs 27.1.
Build System
------------
Man pages are now compressed reproducibly.
Notmuch 0.30 (2020-07-10)
=========================
S/MIME
------
Handle S/MIME (PKCS#7) messages -- one-part signed messages, encrypted
messages, and multilayer messages. Treat them symmetrically to
OpenPGP messages. This includes handling protected headers
gracefully.
If you're using Notmuch with S/MIME, you currently need to configure
gpgsm appropriately.
Mixed-up MIME Repair
--------------------
Detect and automatically repair a common form of message mangling
created by Microsoft Exchange (see index.repaired=mixedup in
notmuch-properties(7)).
Protected Headers
-----------------
Avoid indexing the legacy-display part of an encrypted message that
has protected headers (see
index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display in
notmuch-properties(7)).
Python
------
Drop support for python2, focus on python3.
Introduce new CFFI-based python bindings in the python module named
"notmuch2". Officially deprecate (but still support) the older
"notmuch" module.
Dependencies
------------
Support for Xapian 1.2 is removed. The minimum supported version of
Xapian is now 1.4.0.
Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
===========================
General
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Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
Debian
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Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
===========================
General
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Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
===========================
Build
-----
Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
=========================
General
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Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
of this feature.
Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
the set of headers to be indexed.
Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
strings.
Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
currently untested.
Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
Command Line Interface
----------------------
`notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
--format=text.
Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
`notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
more details about what is included there. This status includes
information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
Emacs
-----
Optionally check for missing attachments in outgoing messages (see
function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
message.
The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
and may be removed in a future release.
Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
are very welcome.
Build System
------------
Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
Dependencies
------------
Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
cryptography support.
Test Suite
----------
If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
===========================
Command line interface
----------------------
Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
===========================
Library
-------
Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
by message properties.
Build System
------------
Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
===========================
Emacs
-----
Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
Python Bindings
---------------
Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
now needed to build this documentation.
Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
===========================
Build System
------------
`configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
=========================
General
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Improve threading
The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
the latter change.
Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
correct encoding for such messages.
Command Line Interface
----------------------
Support relative database paths
Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
to $HOME of the invoking user.
Emacs
-----
Improve stderr handling
Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
needed on e.g. macOS.
Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
Completion
----------
The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
0.24.
Build System
------------
The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
distributions.
Test Suite
----------
Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
since Notmuch 0.25.
Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
=========================
General
-------
Add support for thread:{} queries
Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
`notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
Command Line Interface
----------------------
Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
does not have to be available during message receipt.
Documentation
-------------
An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
`info` format).
Dependencies
------------
As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
===========================
Library Changes
---------------
Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
related abort in `notmuch show`.
Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
===========================
Library Changes
---------------
Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
better late than never.
Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
=========================
Command Line Interface
----------------------
Support for re-indexing existing messages
There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
change the way specific messages are indexed.
Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
Improved error reporting in notmuch new
Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
the setting of `new.tags`.
Support /regex/ in new.ignore
Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
This inserts into the top level folder.
Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
New option --output=address for notmuch address
Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
--decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
Encrypted Mail
--------------
Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
config set index.decrypt true".
Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
this feature without considering the security of your index.
Emacs
-----
Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
Use make-process when available
This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
notmuch command without using temporary files.
Library Changes
---------------
Indexing files with duplicate message-id
Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
New functions to count files
Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
`notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
New function to remove properties
A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
drop all properties with a common pattern:
`notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
possibility of NULL was not documented.
Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
When indexing an e-mail message, the new
`notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
operator may decide to change from message to message.
Test Suite
----------
Out-of-tree builds
The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
out-of-tree builds.
Python Bindings
---------------
Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
nmbug
-----
nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
* Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
* Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
which makes the initial clone more convenient.
* Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
`README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
Documentation
-------------
New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
===========================
Emacs
-----
Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
`advice-add`).
Command Line Interface
----------------------
Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
to 3.0.3.
Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
===========================
Command Line Interface
----------------------
Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
General
-------
Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
a future release.
Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
===========================
Emacs
-----
Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
Emacs bug #28350.
Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
=========================
General
-------
Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
Skip HTML tags when indexing
In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
Command Line Interface
----------------------
Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
Emacs
-----
Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
the date string.
Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
Library Changes
---------------
Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
value.
Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
===========================
Command Line Interface
----------------------
Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
Emacs
-----
Fix filename stashing in tree view.
Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
===========================
General
-------
Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
this release.
Command Line Interface
----------------------
Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
Fix bug in dump header
The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
Library Changes
---------------
Fix a read-after-free in the library.
Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
=========================
General
-------
Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
details.
Command Line Interface
----------------------
Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
`notmuch(1)` man page for details
New default output format to 3
See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
default format changes.
Emacs
-----
Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
or tree view to resume.
Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
tagged deleted.
Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
they were when you postponed in the final message.
Address Completion
It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
Tag jump menu
It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
Refresh all buffers
It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
Stop display of `application/*` parts
By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
`application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
"non/existent".
Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
only tagged the current thread.)
Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
`notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
`notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
Library changes
---------------
`notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
possible.
Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
handled.
Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
===========================
Test Suite
----------
Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
paths.
Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
===========================
Command Line Interface
----------------------
Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
Test Suite
----------
Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
===========================
Build system
------------
Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
===========================
Command Line Interface
----------------------
Improve error handling in notmuch insert
Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
Emacs
-----
Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
===========================
Command Line Interface
----------------------
Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
Test Suite
----------
Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
===========================
Emacs
-----
Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
`notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
===========================
General
-------
Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
Emacs
-----
Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
the original colours.
A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
bug, and hence the test.
Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
=========================
General (Xapian 1.4+)
---------------------
Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
Support for single argument date: queries
`date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
Support for blocking opens
When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
Support for named queries
Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
`query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
Library
-------
Message property API
libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
CLI
---
Support for compile time options
A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
and `retry_lock`.
Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
scripts to ignore it.
Emacs
-----
Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
"sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
header.
Make internal address completion customizable
There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
by date.
Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
(by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
completion for the current buffer.
Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
Resend messages
The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
will be added instead.
Face customization is easier
New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
`notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
`notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
Ruby Bindings
-------------
Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
Go Bindings
-----------
Go bindings moved to contrib
Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
both set to zero.
The same issue occurred with sort modes.
Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
===========================
Test Suite
----------
Silence gdb more
Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
(harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
===========================
Library
-------
Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
Test Suite
----------
Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
Notmuch-Mutt
------------
Use `env` to locate perl.
Emacs
-----
Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
=========================
General
-------
Xapian 1.3 support
Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
Limited support for S/MIME messages
Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
time.
Bug Fixes
Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
Command Line Interface
----------------------
`notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
Build System
------------
Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
Emacs Interface
---------------
Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
parts are now included in replies.
The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
`notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
`F` forwards all open messages in a thread
When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
forwards only the current message.
Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
`notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
types).
When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
longer generate empty buffers
Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
(or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
signatures.
`notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
message-mode.
Address completion improvements
An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
you previously configured one, customize the variable
`notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
`company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
interactive address completion.
Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
`./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
Documentation
-------------
New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
directory.
notmuch-report
--------------
Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
`notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
`meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
`notmuch-report.json(5)`.
`notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
=========================
General
-------
Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
supported.
Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
`notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
`date:<expr>..<expr>`
You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
`.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
Build System
------------
The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
configure.
Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
option to configure.
Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
Command Line Interface
----------------------
Database revision tracking
Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
`--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
`notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
manual page for further information.
Emacs Interface
---------------
`notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
customization as well.
Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
`notmuch-saved-searches`.
Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
this variable to 10000.
Library
-------
The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
`notmuch_database_{open, create}`
New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
`notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
removal or rename.
Database revision tracking
Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
query parser and the new function
`notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
Deprecated functions
`notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
`notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
nmbug-status
------------
`nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
===========================
Emacs Interface
---------------
Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
===========================
Test Suite
----------
Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
=========================
Command-Line Interface
----------------------
There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
`notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
Path to gpg is now configurable
On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
Emacs
-----
Avoid rendering large text attachments.
Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
Vim
---
Vim client now respects excluded tags.
Notmuch-Mutt
------------
Support messages without Message-IDs.
Library
-------
Undeprecate single message mboxes
It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
`notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
New error logging facility
Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
output formerly printed to stderr.
Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
Fix for rounding of seconds
Documentation
-------------
Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
documentation has been removed.
Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
some material from the relicensed wiki.
Contrib
-------
`notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
`notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
nmbug-status
------------
`nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
`status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
`--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
run:
git checkout config origin/config
in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
=========================
Overview
--------
This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
Command-Line Interface
----------------------
Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
script callers should still check the return value.
`notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
and returning success even if indexing fails).
`notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
`post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
`notmuch deliver` is deprecated
With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
`notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
currently unmaintained.
`notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
have at least `N` files associated with them.
Added `notmuch address` subcommand
This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
count of duplicate addresses.
Emacs Interface
---------------
Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
`j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
bring up the inbox.
Improved handling of the unread tag
Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
`notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
Expanded default saved search settings
The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
`q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
`notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
the variable for details.
Library changes
---------------
Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
Representing these independently of the database version number will
let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
Previously, library users were required to call
`notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
too out of date for that API.
Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
atomic section will be aborted.
Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
`notmuch_database_destroy`
Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
messages into the same thread.
nmbug
-----
The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
`fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
nmbug-status
------------
`nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
from the config file. Use something like:
{
"meta": {
"header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
"footer": "</body></html>",
...
},
...
}
Python Bindings
---------------
Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
Build System
------------
The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
===========================
Test Suite
----------
Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
structure for signatures changed slightly.
Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
resulting lib.
Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
===========================
This is a bug fix and portability release.
Build System
------------
Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
this variable.
Test Suite
----------
Use --quick when starting emacs
This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
Allow pending break points in atomicity script
This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
Command-Line Interface
----------------------
To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
`notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
Library changes
---------------
Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
Fix for phrase indexing
There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
will affect only newly indexed messages.
Emacs Interface
---------------
Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
unintentionally removed.
Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
=========================
Overview
--------
This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
*Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
`batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
below.
General
-------
The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
There is a new `path:` search prefix
The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
`path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
details.
Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
`.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
Library changes
---------------
Notmuch database upgrade
The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
`notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
`notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
released version of Notmuch before now.
Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
Message header parsing changes
Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
Command-Line Interface
----------------------
`notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
`notmuch new` has a --quiet option
This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
`notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
user does not want it.
The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
support formatted output.
Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
`notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
`notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
starting with `-`.
Emacs Interface
---------------
Init file
If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
`~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
`notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
configuration/customization items there instead of filling
`~/.emacs` with these.
Changed format for saved searches
The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
shows.
The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
`notmuch-saved-searches`.
IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
(notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
`notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
message had been unread).
The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
`notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
`notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
`notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
to tags already present.
Version variable
The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
these differ from each other.
This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
`ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
for these Emacs versions.
Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
newlines before calling notmuch count.
Bug fixes for sender identities
Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
configured in `notmuch-identities`.
Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
Reply pushes mark before signature
We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
`notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
buffer's.
nmbug
-----
nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
repository and fetch them into the new repository.
Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
=========================
Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
---------------------------------------
Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
like:
notmuch dump | \
awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
{system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
Command-Line Interface
----------------------
New options to better support handling duplicate messages
If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
`notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
`--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
print for each message.
`notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
(i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
`notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
`notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
`notmuch compact` command
The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
functionality through a more convenient interface than
`xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
move the compacted database into place.
Emacs Interface
---------------
`notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
`notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
and multiple threads.
Using `notmuch-tree`
The main key entries to notmuch tree are
'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
search, show and tree mode itself)
'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
and show)
Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
Customising `notmuch-tree`
`notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
Tagging threads in search is now race-free
Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
thread when the search was performed.
`notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
message", etc).
Built-in help improvements
Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
`notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
`notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
`notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
to move some of them to the common keymap.
The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
the wrong action. This has been fixed.
Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
the body part of the message.
Vim Interface
-------------
It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
=========================
Command-Line Interface
----------------------
Support for delivering messages to Maildir
There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
folder and notmuch index.
`notmuch count --batch` option
`notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
`notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
`notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
messages.
Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
everywhere.
Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
Top level option to specify configuration file
It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
Bash command-line completion
The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
"tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
`notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
bash-completion package.
Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
Emacs Interface
---------------
New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
Key bindings for next/previous thread
Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
previous thread in the search results.
Better handling of errors in search buffers
Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
now reports errors in the minibuffer.
Faster search and show
Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
threads should show faster.
No Emacs 22 support
The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
in question was now removed from this release.
Vim Front-End
-------------
The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
Python Bindings
---------------
Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
===========================
Build fixes
-----------
Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
Internal test framework changes
-------------------------------
Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
being unimplemented.
Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
===========================
Internal test framework changes
-------------------------------
Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
build failures in non-interactive environments.
Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
=========================
General
-------
Date range search support
The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
`<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
for details.
Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
(sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
but may be removed in a future release.
Command-Line Interface
----------------------
`notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
`notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
officially deprecated.
Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
`notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
New dump/restore format and tagging interface
There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
whitespace.
`notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
dump/restore format.
Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
`notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
`--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
`notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
output separated by null characters rather than newline
characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
Emacs Interface
---------------
Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
`notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
`notmuch-saved-searches`.
Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
the behavior of this, see
`notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
`notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
(see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
notmuch search.
Handle errors from bodypart insertions
If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
simply displayed in place of the message.
Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
Improved text/calendar content handling
Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
`with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
for HTML email containing images.
Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
quoted.
`notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
the point where it was.
Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
`notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
Support for stashing the thread id in show view
Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
thread instead of the message id.
New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
-----------------------------
The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
(similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
further details and installation.
Portability
-----------
notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
Internal test framework changes
-------------------------------
The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
`TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
can result in buggy behavior.
Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
=========================
General bug fixes
-----------------
Maildir tag synchronization
Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
tag).
Command-Line Interface
----------------------
The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
notmuch commands.
Emacs Interface
---------------
Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
`notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
It is now possible to embed newlines in
`notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
span multiple lines.
Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
inside the result or message.
Search now uses the JSON format internally
This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
user-specified formatting
Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
===========================
Bug-fix release
---------------
Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
compilation error for this contrib package.
Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
===========================
Bug-fix release
---------------
Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
`notmuch_database_get_directory` and
`notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
databases
Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
as documented.
Fix compilation of ruby bindings
Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
not work well.
Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
=========================
Command-Line Interface
----------------------
JSON reply format
`notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
for a reply message and full information about the original message
begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
Tag exclusion
Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
tag in your query, for example:
notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
Raw show format changes
The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
Listing configuration items
The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
their values.
Emacs Interface
---------------
Changes to tagging interface
The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
for more information.
NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
may need to update in custom configurations.
Reply improvement using the JSON format
Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
available.
New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
-----------------------------
The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
`mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
contrib/ from now on.
Library changes
---------------
The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
`notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
database and thus release the lock associated with it without
destroying the data structures obtained from it.
`notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
`notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
returning the new database object or directory object.
Go bindings changes
-------------------
Go 1 compatibility
The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
compatible with go 1.
Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
=========================
Command-Line Interface
----------------------
Reply to sender
`notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
`--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
Mail store folder/file ignore
A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
Unified help and manual pages
The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
MANPATH.
Manual page for notmuch configuration options
The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
itself.
Emacs Interface
---------------
Reply to sender
The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
More flexible and consistent tagging operations
All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
'+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
'*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
notmuch-show view.
`notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
(notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
should be changed to:
(notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
New functions
`notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
of Mailing List Archives.
Fix MML tag quoting in replies
The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
cited message.
Show view archiving key binding changes
The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
"inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
'X'.
Support text/calendar MIME type
The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
text/x-vcalendar.
Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
messages blue by default in the search view.
Printing Support
notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
Library changes
---------------
New functions
`notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
feature.
Python bindings changes
-----------------------
Python 3.2 compatibility
The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
Added missing unicode conversions
Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
Build fixes
-----------
Compatibility with GMime 2.6
It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
===========================
Bug-fix release
---------------
Fix error handling in python bindings
The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
Quote MML tags in replies
MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
(among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
=========================
Command-Line Interface
----------------------
Hooks
Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
importing new messages into the database.
`notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
sometimes. This is now fixed.
Performance
-----------
Automatic tag query optimization
`notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
Memory Management
-----------------
Reduction of memory leaks
Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
and fixed in this release.
Emacs Interface
---------------
Bug fixes
notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
This is now fixed.
Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
scripts.
Improvements in saved search management
New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
Hooks for notmuch-hello
Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
New face for crypto parts headers
Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
other color themes.
Use space as default thousands separator
Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
buttonized id: links
New function notmuch-show-advance
This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
be bound to SPC with:
(define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
Various performance improvements
New add-on tool
---------------
The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
===========================
Bug-fix release
---------------
Fix crash in python bindings
The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
for some, but not all users.
Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
===========================
Bug-fix release
---------------
Fix `--help` argument
Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
`notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
This is fixed in 0.10.1.
Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
=========================
New build and testing features
------------------------------
Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
prerequisites is improved.
Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
New command-line features
-------------------------
Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
from the dump file.
Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
favour of using stdout.
Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
limit the number of results shown.
Add `notmuch count --output` option
The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
option.
New emacs UI features
---------------------
Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
These functions now support completion tags for query parts
starting with "tag:".
Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
Performance
-----------
Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
Search avoids opening and parsing message files
We now store more information in the database so search no longer
has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
requires a database rebuild:
notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
# Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
notmuch new
notmuch restore notmuch.dump
New collection of add-on tools
------------------------------
The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
mailing list.
nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
them to git in one location and restoring in another.
Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
========================
New, general features
---------------------
Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
`notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
Library changes
---------------
New functions
`notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
`notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
API changes
`notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
libnotmuch.so.2
Python bindings changes
-----------------------
- Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
libnotmuch.
- Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
- Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
- Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
- Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
Ruby bindings changes
---------------------
- Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
- Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
- Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
- Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
Emacs improvements
------------------
* Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
signing key.
* Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
Reply formatting cleanup
------------------------
`notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
MIME parts are being suppressed.
Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
========================
Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
soon).
Improved Build system portability
Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
Documentation update for Ruby bindings
Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
- PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
- Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
- Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
========================
Vim interface improvements
--------------------------
Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
* fix citation/signature fold lengths
* fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
* fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
* fix from list reformatting in search view
* fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
Uwe Kleine-König contributed
* use full path for sendmail/doc fix
* fix compose temp file name
Python Bindings changes
-----------------------
Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
* message tags are now explicitly unicode
* query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
Build-System improvements
-------------------------
Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
patch.
Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
==========================
Bug-fix release
---------------
Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
people running gcc 4.4.5.
Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
=======================
New, general features
---------------------
Folder-based searching
Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
storage). The syntax is as follows:
folder:<path>
For example, one might use things such as:
folder:spam
folder:2011-*
folder:work/todo
to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
rebuilt as follows:
notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
# Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
notmuch new
notmuch restore notmuch.dump
Support for PGP/MIME
Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
notmuch will receive these tags.
New command-line features
-------------------------
Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
PGP/MIME-signed parts.
Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
which parts a signature part applies).
Add new "notmuch show --part" option
This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
formatting).
Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
by translating it internally to the new call.
Performance improvements
------------------------
Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
Faster initial indexing
More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
New emacs-interface features
----------------------------
Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
"git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
previously they were silently hidden from the user).
User-selectable From address
A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
will prompt for the from address to use.
The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
the notmuch configuration file if desired.
The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
customize group.
Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
its parent, the subject is not shown.
Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
When a message contains a line looking something like:
----- Original Message -----
emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
(allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
citations work much like conventional citations.
New hooks for running code when tags are modified
Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
Notmuch Before Tag Hook
Notmuch After Tag Hook
New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
emacs diary.
Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
Cleaner display of From line in email messages
Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
the email address.
Vim interface improvements
--------------------------
Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
* Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
* Implementing archive in show view
* Add support to mark as read in show and search views
* Add delete commands
* Various cleanups.
Bindings improvements
---------------------
Ruby bindings are now much more complete
Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
`MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
Python bindings have been updated and extended
(docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
New bindings:
- `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
`Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
`list(Messages)` works now
- `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
These allow, for example:
if msg1 == msg2: ...
As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
s1.union(s2)
s2 -= s1
Removed:
- `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
to get the length.
Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
New build-system features
-------------------------
Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
the configure script from some other directory:
mkdir build
cd build
../configure
make
Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
"make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
manual invocation of configure.
New test-suite feature
----------------------
Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
/bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
the test suite.
Support for testing output with a trailing newline
Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
`test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
are updated to take advantage of this.
Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
General bug fixes
-----------------
Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
This fixed a bug where a search for:
to:user@elsewhere.com
would incorrectly match a message sent:
To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
Fix --output=json when search has no results
A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
expected.
Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
from the Received headers in some cases
Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
`sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
Cleaned up several memory leaks
Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
interface and were never intended to be exported.
Emacs-interface bug fixes
-------------------------
Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
is now fixed.
Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
(potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
fixed to avoid this bug.
Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
========================
New, general features
---------------------
Maildir-flag synchronization
Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
supported:
Flag <-> Tag
---- -----
'D' draft
'F' flagged
'P' passed
'R' replied
'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
renamed with an 'R' flag).
This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
"cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
example:
notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
[maildir] section added to the configuration file.
For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
functionality is available with the following two new functions:
notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
New library features
--------------------
Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
`notmuch_message_get_filename`).
With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
message with the new function:
notmuch_message_get_filenames
Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
over all available filenames for a given message.
New command-line features
-------------------------
New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
access to the mail store itself.
For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
name of a script containing:
ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
way.
General bug fixes
-----------------
Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
now produces nothing).
Emacs interface improvements
----------------------------
Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
Display current thread subject in a header line
Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
Vim interface improvements
--------------------------
Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
various cleanups.
New bindings
------------
Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
========================
New command-line features
-------------------------
`notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
scripts. For example:
for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
<operations-on> "$file"
done
`notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
This new option allows for the messages matching a search
specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
followed by the 5 characters "From ".
`notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
custom items stored in the configuration file.
Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
default rather than Bcc.
New library features
--------------------
Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
These are simply functions for querying properties of a
`notmuch_query_t` object.
New emacs features
------------------
Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
"sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
notmuch customize interface.
Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
Optional support for detecting inline patches
This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
"replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
"needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
notmuch customize interface.
Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
notmuch customize interface.
Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
names.
New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
opposite direction.
New build-system features
-------------------------
Various portability fixes have been applied
These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
more portable than ever before.
Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
after installing. This support takes two forms:
1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
(configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
automatically run ldconfig.
2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
Check compiler/linker options before using them
The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
used in the resulting Makefile.
New test-suite features
-----------------------
New modularization of test suite
Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
(BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
New testing of emacs interface
The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
database via the FCC setting.
General bug fixes
-----------------
Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
persistent error of the form:
document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
parsing the notmuch results).
Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
fails
Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
Emacs bug fixes
---------------
Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
the emacs interface.
Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
Python-binding fixes
--------------------
The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
Debian-specific fixes
---------------------
Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
"apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
work.
Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
==========================
General bug fixes
-----------------
Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
want notmuch to crash.
Emacs bug fixes
---------------
Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
directory does not exist
Build fix
---------
Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
final linking of notmuch would fail.
Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
========================
New command-line features
-------------------------
User-configurable tags for new messages
A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
to specify this value.
Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
header).
Indication of author names that match a search
When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
messages in the thread are listed first.
New: Python bindings
--------------------
Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
and other tasks.
These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
Emacs interface improvements
----------------------------
An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
(providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
but without any of the disadvantages).
Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
away.
NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
instead running something like:
emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
(as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
order.
Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
tweaked by the user.
You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
"Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
"notmuch".
Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
settings.
Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
This support currently relies on an external program,
(notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
already been written that generate address completions by doing
notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
past, etc.
One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
notmuch) is available via:
git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
line of an email message will provide matching completions.
Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
making this automatic in a future release.
New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
tag" commands.
Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
other representation.
Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
attachments).
Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
Many new functions are available for tidying up message
content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
"incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
to display the search result.
More flexible handling of header visibility
As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
with the 'h' keybinding.
For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
Customizable formatting of search results
The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
New library feature
-------------------
Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
date.
Build fixes
-----------
Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
accept are now all accepted.
Test suite
----------
A large number of new tests for the many new features
Better display of output from failed tests
Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
========================
This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
detailed release notes this time!
This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
notmuch in subsequent releases.
-Carl
General features
----------------
Better guessing of From: header
Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
configured address.
Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
guaranteed to match all messages.
Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
"notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
other search terms.
Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
missing
Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
General bug fixes
-----------------
Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
Previously, the user might see:
Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
rather than:
Subject: Re: Rozlučka
The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
Emacs client features
---------------------
Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
tags by region
Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
search with the '*' binding.
More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
number to the user.
Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
Build-system features
---------------------
Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
Add support to configure for many standard options
We include actual support for:
--includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
And accept and silently ignore several more:
--build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
--disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
separate "make install-emacs"
Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
verify its results
Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
========================
This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
tags from messages in a thread.
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