1 This documents describes changes
3 - made to configuration variables, functions and the like which are
4 not backwards-compatible and/or which do not exist in mutt
6 - other changes which might break existing user configuration and thus
9 This document is not the place for verbose documentation; it only offers
10 the necessary keywords to look them up in the manual, ChangeLog or other
11 sources of information.
15 Several pre-defined read-only variables named $muttng_ have
16 been added; this feature is maybe subject to change in the near
19 The $editor_headers option has been added.
21 The %Z expando of $index_format now also includes an 'A'
22 as the last character if a mail has attachments, i.e. is of
23 type multipart and a space otherwise. In addition, the ~M
24 pattern was added to match these messages.
26 Many synonym variables pointing to proper $nntp_ ones have
31 The $debug_level option has been added.
33 It's now possible to define and use arbitrary self-defined
34 variables as long as prefixed with user_.
36 The $user_agent variable had to be renamed to $agent_string.
38 To keep consistency, the -D option has been removed again in
43 Instead of only supporting to expand environment variables via
44 $NAME, it's now possible to query for all variables, too, e.g.
45 'set imap_home_namespace = $folder'.
47 The $abort_noattach and $attach_remind_regexp options have been
48 added to remind users of possibly forgotten attachments.
52 The $delete_space option has been added.
56 Reading configurations from ~/.muttngrc-$version and
57 ~/.muttng/muttngrc-$version is no longer supported;
58 ~/.muttngrc and ~/.muttng/muttngrc remain.
62 The $max_display_recips option has been added.
66 The $smtp_envelope option has been added.
68 To improve consistency, the following variables were renamed and
69 synonyms kept: $smtp_auth_username to $smtp_user and
70 $smtp_auth_password to $smtp_pass.
74 The $smtp_use_tls option has been added.
76 The $imap_check_subscribed option has been added in muttng and mutt.
80 The $imap_force_ssl option has been replaced with the more generic
81 $ssl_force_tls option.
85 For $sidebar_number_format, the expandos %c and %f are replaced with
86 their $status_format pendants %m and %F respectively. Use of %c and
87 %f is deprecated but still kept for compatibility.
91 Due to merging in changes made to mutt where NSS support was dropped,
92 it's dropped in mutt-ng too.
96 Because of reverting a (overly eager) mutt-ng-specific issue with
97 header caching, starting with revision 362, all caches must be removed
98 and rebuild again. Sorry for that.
102 Due to changes to internal structures introduced in SVN revision 344,
103 all header caches must be removed and rebuild.
105 The '-D' command line option has been added.
107 Editing threads functionality is no longer only available
108 in muttng as it has been integrated into mutt, too.
112 The $xterm_leave option has been added.
114 The '^' shortcut pointing to the current folder is no longer
115 only available in muttng as it has been integrated into mutt, too.
119 The 'prepare' script has been renamed to 'autogen.sh' as this name
120 seems to be used in many projects using the autotools too.
124 Pine compatibility for naming IMAP mailboxes has been removed, only
125 the common imap[s]:// syntax remains.
127 The first "round" of removing synonym variables is completed. The
128 replacements for the next round are: ask_followup_to ->
129 nntp_ask_followup_to, ask_x_comment_to -> nntp_ask_x_comment_to,
130 catchup_newsgroup -> nntp_catchup, followup_to_poster ->
131 nntp_followup_to_poster, group_index_format ->
132 nntp_group_index_format, inews -> nntp_inews, mime_subject ->
133 nntp_mime_subject, news_cache_dir -> nntp_cache_dir, news_server ->
134 nntp_host, newsrc -> nntp_newsrc, nntp_poll -> nntp_mail_check,
135 pop_checkinterval -> pop_mail_check, post_moderated ->
136 nntp_post_moderated, save_unsubscribed -> nntp_save_unsubscribed,
137 show_new_news -> nntp_show_new_news, show_only_unread ->
138 nntp_show_only_unread, x_comment_to -> nntp_x_comment_to. Please use
139 the contrib/update-config.pl script to update.
141 Due to frequent trouble, $imap_mail_check now defaults to 300 seconds
142 (5 minutes) rather than 5 seconds.
144 The configuration variable $strict_mailto has been added.
148 Changes due to better integration of qdbm support w/ header caching:
150 - the $header_cache_pagesize variable is not available with as it's
152 - the following feature tests were added: feature_qdbm, feature_gdbm,
153 feature_db4 (for ifdef/ifndef)
157 New Configuration Variables:
158 - $header_cache_compress - compress header cache database with qdbm
159 when switching to qdbm, please make sure to _first_ _completely_
160 remove the old header cache (files) as you need to start off from
161 scratch; compressed qdbm require much less space (only ~1/5)
165 New Configuration Variables:
166 - $sidebar_boundary - boundary characters for name compression
167 - $sidebar_number_format - control if and how to print/count numbers
170 - $shorten_hierarchy is now named $sidebar_shorten_hierarchy
171 (still kept as synonym)
175 New Configuration Variables:
176 - $sidebar_newmail_only - if set, only mailboxes with new mail will
177 be shown in the sidebar
181 New Configuration Variables:
187 New Configuration Command (based on CD's ifdef Patch):
194 - $imap_mail_check is split from $mail_check
195 - $force_buffy_check forces check on <buffy-list>
200 - 'sidebar [fg] [bg]' for the delimiter
207 ask_follow_up, ask_x_comment_to, followup_to_poster,
208 group_index_format, catchup_newsgroup, inews, news_cache_dir,
209 newsrc,news_server, nntp_context, nntp_load_description, nntp_pass,
210 nntp_poll, nntp_reconnect, nntp_user, post_moderated,
211 save_unsubscribed, show_new_news, show_only_unread, x_comment_to
213 Quoting-Initials-Support
217 smtp_auth_password, smtp_auth_username, smtp_host, smtp_port
219 Assumed Character Set Patch:
220 assumed_charset, strict_mime, file_charset
223 maildir_header_cache_verify, header_cache
226 sidebar_delim, sidebar_visible, sidebar_width, shorten_hierarchy
228 Format Flowed Improvements:
229 max_line_length, quote_empty, quote_quoted, stuff_quoted
232 xterm_icon, xterm_set_titles, xterm_title
235 imap_reconnect, msgid_format, operating_system, shorten_hierarchy,
236 signoff_string, umask
244 change-newsgroup, change-newsgroup-readonly, forward-to-group,
245 followup-message, get-children, get-message, get-parent,
246 reconstruct-thread, post-message, catchup, edit-newsgroups,
247 edit-followup-to, edit-x-comment-to, reload-active,
248 subscribe-pattern, unsubscribe-pattern, catchup, uncatchup,
257 break-thread, link-threads
260 sidebar-open, sidebar-next, sidebar-prev, sidebar-next-new,
261 sidebar-prev-new, sidebar-scroll-up, sidebar-scroll-down
265 Compressed-Folder Support:
266 close-hook, open-hook, append-hook
271 sidebar_new, sidebar_flagged
278 The config files were renamed. Instead of ~/.muttrc it's now
279 ~/.muttngrc, instead of /etc/Muttrc it's now /etc/Muttngrc and
282 The config directories were renamed too. If you used .mutt/ for
283 config file you have to use .muttng/ now.
285 The following tools were removed:
286 bin/flea, bin/muttbug, bin/mutt_dotlock, bin/pgpewrap, bin/pgpring,
287 bin/smime_keys and etc/mime.types.
288 They were replaced by:
289 bin/fleang, bin/muttngbug, bin/muttng_dotlock, bin/pgpewrapng
290 bin/pgpringng, bin/smime_keysng and etc/muttng-mime.types.
291 Please check and update your configuration.