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 $debug_level option has been added.
17 It's now possible to define and use arbitrary self-defined
18 variables as long as prefixed with user_.
20 The $user_agent variable had to be renamed to $agent_string.
22 To keep consistency, the -D option has been removed again in
27 Instead of only supporting to expand environment variables via
28 $NAME, it's now possible to query for all variables, too, e.g.
29 'set imap_home_namespace = $folder'.
31 The $abort_noattach and $attach_remind_regexp options have been
32 added to remind users of possibly forgotten attachments.
36 The $delete_space option has been added.
40 Reading configurations from ~/.muttngrc-$version and
41 ~/.muttng/muttngrc-$version is no longer supported;
42 ~/.muttngrc and ~/.muttng/muttngrc remain.
46 The $max_display_recips option has been added.
50 The $smtp_envelope option has been added.
52 To improve consistency, the following variables were renamed and
53 synonyms kept: $smtp_auth_username to $smtp_user and
54 $smtp_auth_password to $smtp_pass.
58 The $smtp_use_tls option has been added.
60 The $imap_check_subscribed option has been added in muttng and mutt.
64 The $imap_force_ssl option has been replaced with the more generic
65 $ssl_force_tls option.
69 For $sidebar_number_format, the expandos %c and %f are replaced with
70 their $status_format pendants %m and %F respectively. Use of %c and
71 %f is deprecated but still kept for compatibility.
75 Due to merging in changes made to mutt where NSS support was dropped,
76 it's dropped in mutt-ng too.
80 Because of reverting a (overly eager) mutt-ng-specific issue with
81 header caching, starting with revision 362, all caches must be removed
82 and rebuild again. Sorry for that.
86 Due to changes to internal structures introduced in SVN revision 344,
87 all header caches must be removed and rebuild.
89 The '-D' command line option has been added.
91 Editing threads functionality is no longer only available
92 in muttng as it has been integrated into mutt, too.
96 The $xterm_leave option has been added.
98 The '^' shortcut pointing to the current folder is no longer
99 only available in muttng as it has been integrated into mutt, too.
103 The 'prepare' script has been renamed to 'autogen.sh' as this name
104 seems to be used in many projects using the autotools too.
108 Pine compatibility for naming IMAP mailboxes has been removed, only
109 the common imap[s]:// syntax remains.
111 The first "round" of removing synonym variables is completed. The
112 replacements for the next round are: ask_followup_to ->
113 nntp_ask_followup_to, ask_x_comment_to -> nntp_ask_x_comment_to,
114 catchup_newsgroup -> nntp_catchup, followup_to_poster ->
115 nntp_followup_to_poster, group_index_format ->
116 nntp_group_index_format, inews -> nntp_inews, mime_subject ->
117 nntp_mime_subject, news_cache_dir -> nntp_cache_dir, news_server ->
118 nntp_host, newsrc -> nntp_newsrc, nntp_poll -> nntp_mail_check,
119 pop_checkinterval -> pop_mail_check, post_moderated ->
120 nntp_post_moderated, save_unsubscribed -> nntp_save_unsubscribed,
121 show_new_news -> nntp_show_new_news, show_only_unread ->
122 nntp_show_only_unread, x_comment_to -> nntp_x_comment_to. Please use
123 the contrib/update-config.pl script to update.
125 Due to frequent trouble, $imap_mail_check now defaults to 300 seconds
126 (5 minutes) rather than 5 seconds.
128 The configuration variable $strict_mailto has been added.
132 Changes due to better integration of qdbm support w/ header caching:
134 - the $header_cache_pagesize variable is not available with as it's
136 - the following feature tests were added: feature_qdbm, feature_gdbm,
137 feature_db4 (for ifdef/ifndef)
141 New Configuration Variables:
142 - $header_cache_compress - compress header cache database with qdbm
143 when switching to qdbm, please make sure to _first_ _completely_
144 remove the old header cache (files) as you need to start off from
145 scratch; compressed qdbm require much less space (only ~1/5)
149 New Configuration Variables:
150 - $sidebar_boundary - boundary characters for name compression
151 - $sidebar_number_format - control if and how to print/count numbers
154 - $shorten_hierarchy is now named $sidebar_shorten_hierarchy
155 (still kept as synonym)
159 New Configuration Variables:
160 - $sidebar_newmail_only - if set, only mailboxes with new mail will
161 be shown in the sidebar
165 New Configuration Variables:
171 New Configuration Command (based on CD's ifdef Patch):
178 - $imap_mail_check is split from $mail_check
179 - $force_buffy_check forces check on <buffy-list>
184 - 'sidebar [fg] [bg]' for the delimiter
191 ask_follow_up, ask_x_comment_to, followup_to_poster,
192 group_index_format, catchup_newsgroup, inews, news_cache_dir,
193 newsrc,news_server, nntp_context, nntp_load_description, nntp_pass,
194 nntp_poll, nntp_reconnect, nntp_user, post_moderated,
195 save_unsubscribed, show_new_news, show_only_unread, x_comment_to
197 Quoting-Initials-Support
201 smtp_auth_password, smtp_auth_username, smtp_host, smtp_port
203 Assumed Character Set Patch:
204 assumed_charset, strict_mime, file_charset
207 maildir_header_cache_verify, header_cache
210 sidebar_delim, sidebar_visible, sidebar_width, shorten_hierarchy
212 Format Flowed Improvements:
213 max_line_length, quote_empty, quote_quoted, stuff_quoted
216 xterm_icon, xterm_set_titles, xterm_title
219 imap_reconnect, msgid_format, operating_system, shorten_hierarchy,
220 signoff_string, umask
228 change-newsgroup, change-newsgroup-readonly, forward-to-group,
229 followup-message, get-children, get-message, get-parent,
230 reconstruct-thread, post-message, catchup, edit-newsgroups,
231 edit-followup-to, edit-x-comment-to, reload-active,
232 subscribe-pattern, unsubscribe-pattern, catchup, uncatchup,
241 break-thread, link-threads
244 sidebar-open, sidebar-next, sidebar-prev, sidebar-next-new,
245 sidebar-prev-new, sidebar-scroll-up, sidebar-scroll-down
249 Compressed-Folder Support:
250 close-hook, open-hook, append-hook
255 sidebar_new, sidebar_flagged
262 The config files were renamed. Instead of ~/.muttrc it's now
263 ~/.muttngrc, instead of /etc/Muttrc it's now /etc/Muttngrc and
266 The config directories were renamed too. If you used .mutt/ for
267 config file you have to use .muttng/ now.
269 The following tools were removed:
270 bin/flea, bin/muttbug, bin/mutt_dotlock, bin/pgpewrap, bin/pgpring,
271 bin/smime_keys and etc/mime.types.
272 They were replaced by:
273 bin/fleang, bin/muttngbug, bin/muttng_dotlock, bin/pgpewrapng
274 bin/pgpringng, bin/smime_keysng and etc/muttng-mime.types.
275 Please check and update your configuration.