1 Visible changes since Mutt 1.2
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4 - 2005-01-09: Fork of Mutt -> Mutt-ng
6 Folder formats and folder access
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9 - Better mh support: Mutt now supports .mh_sequences files.
10 Currently, the "unseen", "flagged", and "replied" sequences are
11 used to store mutt flags (the names are configurable using the
12 $mh_seq_unseen, $mh_seq_flagged, and $mh_seq_replied configuration
13 variables). As a side effect, messages in MH folders are no longer
14 rewritten upon status changes.
16 - The "trashed" flag is supported for maildir folders. See
19 - POP folder support. You can now access a POP mailbox just like an
20 IMAP folder (with obvious restrictions due to the protocol).
22 - URL syntax for remote folders. You can pass things like
23 pop://account@host and imap://account@host/folder as arguments for
24 the -f command line flag.
26 - STARTTLS support. If $ssl_starttls is set (the default), mutt
27 will attempt to use STARTTLS on servers advertising that
30 - $preconnect. If set, a shell command to be executed if mutt fails
31 to establish a connection to the server. This is useful for
32 setting up secure connections; see the muttrc(5) for details.
34 - $tunnel. Use a pipe to a command instead of a raw socket. See
35 muttrc(5) for details. (Basically, it's another way for setting
36 up secure connections.)
38 - More new IMAP/POP-related variables (see muttrc(5) for details):
39 $connect_timeout, $imap_authenticators, $imap_delim_chars,
40 $imap_peek, $pop_authenticators, $pop_auth_try_all,
41 $pop_checkinterval, $pop_delete, $pop_reconnect, $use_ipv6.
43 - The following IMAP/POP-related variables are gone:
44 $imap_checkinterval, $imap_cramkey, $pop_port.
46 - There's a new imap-fetch-mail function, which forces a check for
47 new messages on an IMAP server.
49 - The new-mailbox function was renamed to create-mailbox, and is
50 bound to C instead of n by default.
55 - Mutt now uses the iconv interface for character set conversions.
56 This means that you need either a very modern libc, or Bruno
57 Haible's libiconv, which is available from
58 <http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/>.
60 - With sufficiently recent versions of ncurses and slang, mutt works
61 properly in utf-8 locales.
63 - On sufficiently modern systems, the $charset variable's value is
64 automatically derived from the locale you use. (Note, however,
65 that manually setting it to a value which is compatible with your
66 locale doesn't do any harm.)
68 - $send_charset is a colon-separated list of character sets now,
69 defaulting to us-ascii:iso-8859-1:utf-8.
71 - charset-hook defines aliases for character sets encountered in
72 messages (say, someone tags his messages with latin15 when he
73 means iso-8859-15), iconv-hook defines local names for character
74 sets (for systems which don't know about MIME names; see
75 contrib/iconv for sample configuration snippets).
77 - The change-charset function is gone. Use edit-type (C-e on the
78 compose menu) instead.
80 - The recode-attachment function is gone.
85 - There's a new variable $compose_format for the compose screen's
86 status line. You can now include the message's approximate
89 - The attachment menu knows about collapsing now: Using
90 collapse-parts (bound to "v" by default), you can collapse and
91 uncollapse parts of the attachment tree. This function is also
92 available from the pager when invoked from the attachment tree.
94 Normally, the recvattach menu will start uncollapsed. However,
95 with the new $digest_collapse option (which is set by default),
96 the individual messages contained in digests will be displayed
97 collapsed. (That is, there's one line per message.)
99 - Using $display_filter, you can specify a command which filters
100 messages before they are displayed.
102 - Using message-hook, you can execute mutt configuration commands
103 before a message is displayed (or formatted before replying).
105 - If you don't want that mutt moves flagged messages to your mbox,
108 - Setting the $pgp_ignore_subkeys variable will cause mutt to ignore
109 OpenPGP. This option is set by default, and it's suggested that
112 - $pgp_sign_micalg has gone. Mutt now automatically determines what
113 MIC algorithm was used for a particular signature.
115 - If $pgp_good_sign is set, then a PGP signature is only considered
116 verified if the output from $pgp_verify_command matches this
117 regular expression. It's suggested that you set this variable to
118 the typical text message output by PGP (or GPG, or whatever)
119 produces when it encounters a good signature.
121 - There's a new function, check-traditional-pgp, which is bound to
122 esc-P by default. It'll check whether a text parts of a message
123 contain PGP encrypted or signed material, and possibly adjust
126 - $print_split. If this option is set, $print_command run
127 separately for each message you print. Useful with enscript(1)'s
130 - $sig_on_top. Include the signature before any quoted or forwarded
131 text. WARNING: use of this option may provoke flames.
133 - $text_flowed. When set, mutt will generate text/plain attachments
134 with the format=flowed parameter. In order to properly produce
135 such messages, you'll need an appropriate editor mode. Note that
136 the $indent_string option is ignored with flowed text.
138 - $to_chars has grown: Mailing list messages are now tagged with an
139 L in the index. If you want the old behaviour back, add this to
140 your .muttrc: set to_chars=" +TCF "
142 - New emacs-like functions in the line editor: backward-word (M-b),
143 capitalize-word (M-c), downcase-word (M-l), upcase-word (M-u),
144 forward-word (M-f), kill-eow (M-d), tranpose-chars (unbound).
146 transpose-chars is unbound by default because external query
147 occupies C-t. Suggested alternative binding:
149 bind editor "\e\t" complete-query
150 bind editor "\Ct" transpose-chars
152 - mailto URL support: You can pass a mailto URL to mutt on the
155 - If $duplicate_threads is set, mutt's new threading code will
156 thread messages with the same message-id together. Duplication
157 will be indicated with an equals sign in the thread diagram.
159 You can also limit your view to the duplicates (or exclude
160 duplicates from view) by using the "~=" pattern.