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 The following pre-defined read-only variables were added:
16 $muttng_pwd, $muttng_folder_name, $muttng_folder_path.
20 Several pre-defined read-only variables named $muttng_ have
21 been added; this feature is maybe subject to change in the near
24 The $editor_headers option has been added.
26 The %Z expando of $index_format now also includes an 'A'
27 as the last character if a mail has attachments, i.e. is of
28 type multipart and a space otherwise. In addition, the ~M
29 pattern was added to match these messages.
31 Many synonym variables pointing to proper $nntp_ ones have
36 The $debug_level option has been added.
38 It's now possible to define and use arbitrary self-defined
39 variables as long as prefixed with user_.
41 The $user_agent variable had to be renamed to $agent_string.
43 To keep consistency, the -D option has been removed again in
48 Instead of only supporting to expand environment variables via
49 $NAME, it's now possible to query for all variables, too, e.g.
50 'set imap_home_namespace = $folder'.
52 The $abort_noattach and $attach_remind_regexp options have been
53 added to remind users of possibly forgotten attachments.
57 The $delete_space option has been added.
61 Reading configurations from ~/.muttngrc-$version and
62 ~/.muttng/muttngrc-$version is no longer supported;
63 ~/.muttngrc and ~/.muttng/muttngrc remain.
67 The $max_display_recips option has been added.
71 The $smtp_envelope option has been added.
73 To improve consistency, the following variables were renamed and
74 synonyms kept: $smtp_auth_username to $smtp_user and
75 $smtp_auth_password to $smtp_pass.
79 The $smtp_use_tls option has been added.
81 The $imap_check_subscribed option has been added in muttng and mutt.
85 The $imap_force_ssl option has been replaced with the more generic
86 $ssl_force_tls option.
90 For $sidebar_number_format, the expandos %c and %f are replaced with
91 their $status_format pendants %m and %F respectively. Use of %c and
92 %f is deprecated but still kept for compatibility.
96 Due to merging in changes made to mutt where NSS support was dropped,
97 it's dropped in mutt-ng too.
101 Because of reverting a (overly eager) mutt-ng-specific issue with
102 header caching, starting with revision 362, all caches must be removed
103 and rebuild again. Sorry for that.
107 Due to changes to internal structures introduced in SVN revision 344,
108 all header caches must be removed and rebuild.
110 The '-D' command line option has been added.
112 Editing threads functionality is no longer only available
113 in muttng as it has been integrated into mutt, too.
117 The $xterm_leave option has been added.
119 The '^' shortcut pointing to the current folder is no longer
120 only available in muttng as it has been integrated into mutt, too.
124 The 'prepare' script has been renamed to 'autogen.sh' as this name
125 seems to be used in many projects using the autotools too.
129 Pine compatibility for naming IMAP mailboxes has been removed, only
130 the common imap[s]:// syntax remains.
132 The first "round" of removing synonym variables is completed. The
133 replacements for the next round are: ask_followup_to ->
134 nntp_ask_followup_to, ask_x_comment_to -> nntp_ask_x_comment_to,
135 catchup_newsgroup -> nntp_catchup, followup_to_poster ->
136 nntp_followup_to_poster, group_index_format ->
137 nntp_group_index_format, inews -> nntp_inews, mime_subject ->
138 nntp_mime_subject, news_cache_dir -> nntp_cache_dir, news_server ->
139 nntp_host, newsrc -> nntp_newsrc, nntp_poll -> nntp_mail_check,
140 pop_checkinterval -> pop_mail_check, post_moderated ->
141 nntp_post_moderated, save_unsubscribed -> nntp_save_unsubscribed,
142 show_new_news -> nntp_show_new_news, show_only_unread ->
143 nntp_show_only_unread, x_comment_to -> nntp_x_comment_to. Please use
144 the contrib/update-config.pl script to update.
146 Due to frequent trouble, $imap_mail_check now defaults to 300 seconds
147 (5 minutes) rather than 5 seconds.
149 The configuration variable $strict_mailto has been added.
153 Changes due to better integration of qdbm support w/ header caching:
155 - the $header_cache_pagesize variable is not available with as it's
157 - the following feature tests were added: feature_qdbm, feature_gdbm,
158 feature_db4 (for ifdef/ifndef)
162 New Configuration Variables:
163 - $header_cache_compress - compress header cache database with qdbm
164 when switching to qdbm, please make sure to _first_ _completely_
165 remove the old header cache (files) as you need to start off from
166 scratch; compressed qdbm require much less space (only ~1/5)
170 New Configuration Variables:
171 - $sidebar_boundary - boundary characters for name compression
172 - $sidebar_number_format - control if and how to print/count numbers
175 - $shorten_hierarchy is now named $sidebar_shorten_hierarchy
176 (still kept as synonym)
180 New Configuration Variables:
181 - $sidebar_newmail_only - if set, only mailboxes with new mail will
182 be shown in the sidebar
186 New Configuration Variables:
192 New Configuration Command (based on CD's ifdef Patch):
199 - $imap_mail_check is split from $mail_check
200 - $force_buffy_check forces check on <buffy-list>
205 - 'sidebar [fg] [bg]' for the delimiter
212 ask_follow_up, ask_x_comment_to, followup_to_poster,
213 group_index_format, catchup_newsgroup, inews, news_cache_dir,
214 newsrc,news_server, nntp_context, nntp_load_description, nntp_pass,
215 nntp_poll, nntp_reconnect, nntp_user, post_moderated,
216 save_unsubscribed, show_new_news, show_only_unread, x_comment_to
218 Quoting-Initials-Support
222 smtp_auth_password, smtp_auth_username, smtp_host, smtp_port
224 Assumed Character Set Patch:
225 assumed_charset, strict_mime, file_charset
228 maildir_header_cache_verify, header_cache
231 sidebar_delim, sidebar_visible, sidebar_width, shorten_hierarchy
233 Format Flowed Improvements:
234 max_line_length, quote_empty, quote_quoted, stuff_quoted
237 xterm_icon, xterm_set_titles, xterm_title
240 imap_reconnect, msgid_format, operating_system, shorten_hierarchy,
241 signoff_string, umask
249 change-newsgroup, change-newsgroup-readonly, forward-to-group,
250 followup-message, get-children, get-message, get-parent,
251 reconstruct-thread, post-message, catchup, edit-newsgroups,
252 edit-followup-to, edit-x-comment-to, reload-active,
253 subscribe-pattern, unsubscribe-pattern, catchup, uncatchup,
262 break-thread, link-threads
265 sidebar-open, sidebar-next, sidebar-prev, sidebar-next-new,
266 sidebar-prev-new, sidebar-scroll-up, sidebar-scroll-down
270 Compressed-Folder Support:
271 close-hook, open-hook, append-hook
276 sidebar_new, sidebar_flagged
283 The config files were renamed. Instead of ~/.muttrc it's now
284 ~/.muttngrc, instead of /etc/Muttrc it's now /etc/Muttngrc and
287 The config directories were renamed too. If you used .mutt/ for
288 config file you have to use .muttng/ now.
290 The following tools were removed:
291 bin/flea, bin/muttbug, bin/mutt_dotlock, bin/pgpewrap, bin/pgpring,
292 bin/smime_keys and etc/mime.types.
293 They were replaced by:
294 bin/fleang, bin/muttngbug, bin/muttng_dotlock, bin/pgpewrapng
295 bin/pgpringng, bin/smime_keysng and etc/muttng-mime.types.
296 Please check and update your configuration.