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mutt stable branch with some hacks
1 Visible changes since Mutt 1.2
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5Folder formats and folder access
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7
8- Better mh support: Mutt now supports .mh_sequences files.
9 Currently, the "unseen", "flagged", and "replied" sequences are
10 used to store mutt flags (the names are configurable using the
11 $mh_seq_unseen, $mh_seq_flagged, and $mh_seq_replied configuration
12 variables). As a side effect, messages in MH folders are no longer
13 rewritten upon status changes.
14
15- The "trashed" flag is supported for maildir folders. See
16 $maildir_trash.
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18- POP folder support. You can now access a POP mailbox just like an
19 IMAP folder (with obvious restrictions due to the protocol).
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21- URL syntax for remote folders. You can pass things like
22 pop://account@host and imap://account@host/folder as arguments for
23 the -f command line flag.
24
25- STARTTLS support. If $ssl_starttls is set (the default), mutt
26 will attempt to use STARTTLS on servers advertising that
27 capability.
28
29- $preconnect. If set, a shell command to be executed if mutt fails
30 to establish a connection to the server. This is useful for
31 setting up secure connections; see the muttrc(5) for details.
32
33- $tunnel. Use a pipe to a command instead of a raw socket. See
34 muttrc(5) for details. (Basically, it's another way for setting
35 up secure connections.)
36
37- More new IMAP/POP-related variables (see muttrc(5) for details):
38 $connect_timeout, $imap_authenticators, $imap_delim_chars,
39 $imap_peek, $pop_authenticators, $pop_auth_try_all,
40 $pop_checkinterval, $pop_delete, $pop_reconnect, $use_ipv6.
41
42- The following IMAP/POP-related variables are gone:
43 $imap_checkinterval, $imap_cramkey, $pop_port.
44
45- There's a new imap-fetch-mail function, which forces a check for
46 new messages on an IMAP server.
47
48- The new-mailbox function was renamed to create-mailbox, and is
49 bound to C instead of n by default.
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51Character set support
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53
54- Mutt now uses the iconv interface for character set conversions.
55 This means that you need either a very modern libc, or Bruno
56 Haible's libiconv, which is available from
57 <http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/>.
58
59- With sufficiently recent versions of ncurses and slang, mutt works
60 properly in utf-8 locales.
61
62- On sufficiently modern systems, the $charset variable's value is
63 automatically derived from the locale you use. (Note, however,
64 that manually setting it to a value which is compatible with your
65 locale doesn't do any harm.)
66
67- $send_charset is a colon-separated list of character sets now,
68 defaulting to us-ascii:iso-8859-1:utf-8.
69
70- charset-hook defines aliases for character sets encountered in
71 messages (say, someone tags his messages with latin15 when he
72 means iso-8859-15), iconv-hook defines local names for character
73 sets (for systems which don't know about MIME names; see
74 contrib/iconv for sample configuration snippets).
75
76- The change-charset function is gone. Use edit-type (C-e on the
77 compose menu) instead.
78
79- The recode-attachment function is gone.
80
81Other changes
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83
84- There's a new variable $compose_format for the compose screen's
85 status line. You can now include the message's approximate
86 on-the-wire size.
87
88- The attachment menu knows about collapsing now: Using
89 collapse-parts (bound to "v" by default), you can collapse and
90 uncollapse parts of the attachment tree. This function is also
91 available from the pager when invoked from the attachment tree.
92
93 Normally, the recvattach menu will start uncollapsed. However,
94 with the new $digest_collapse option (which is set by default),
95 the individual messages contained in digests will be displayed
96 collapsed. (That is, there's one line per message.)
97
98- Using $display_filter, you can specify a command which filters
99 messages before they are displayed.
100
101- Using message-hook, you can execute mutt configuration commands
102 before a message is displayed (or formatted before replying).
103
104- If you don't want that mutt moves flagged messages to your mbox,
105 set $keep_flagged.
106
107- Setting the $pgp_ignore_subkeys variable will cause mutt to ignore
108 OpenPGP. This option is set by default, and it's suggested that
109 you leave it.
110
111- $pgp_sign_micalg has gone. Mutt now automatically determines what
112 MIC algorithm was used for a particular signature.
113
114- If $pgp_good_sign is set, then a PGP signature is only considered
115 verified if the output from $pgp_verify_command matches this
116 regular expression. It's suggested that you set this variable to
117 the typical text message output by PGP (or GPG, or whatever)
118 produces when it encounters a good signature.
119
120- There's a new function, check-traditional-pgp, which is bound to
121 esc-P by default. It'll check whether a text parts of a message
122 contain PGP encrypted or signed material, and possibly adjust
123 content types.
124
125- $print_split. If this option is set, $print_command run
126 separately for each message you print. Useful with enscript(1)'s
127 mail printing mode.
128
129- $sig_on_top. Include the signature before any quoted or forwarded
130 text. WARNING: use of this option may provoke flames.
131
132- $text_flowed. When set, mutt will generate text/plain attachments
133 with the format=flowed parameter. In order to properly produce
134 such messages, you'll need an appropriate editor mode. Note that
135 the $indent_string option is ignored with flowed text.
136
137- $to_chars has grown: Mailing list messages are now tagged with an
138 L in the index. If you want the old behaviour back, add this to
139 your .muttrc: set to_chars=" +TCF "
140
141- New emacs-like functions in the line editor: backward-word (M-b),
142 capitalize-word (M-c), downcase-word (M-l), upcase-word (M-u),
143 forward-word (M-f), kill-eow (M-d), tranpose-chars (unbound).
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145 transpose-chars is unbound by default because external query
146 occupies C-t. Suggested alternative binding:
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148 bind editor "\e\t" complete-query
149 bind editor "\Ct" transpose-chars
150
151- mailto URL support: You can pass a mailto URL to mutt on the
152 command line.
153
154- If $duplicate_threads is set, mutt's new threading code will
155 thread messages with the same message-id together. Duplication
156 will be indicated with an equals sign in the thread diagram.
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158 You can also limit your view to the duplicates (or exclude
159 duplicates from view) by using the "~=" pattern.