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 Reading configurations from ~/.muttngrc-$version and
16 ~/.muttng/muttngrc-$version is no longer supported;
17 ~/.muttngrc and ~/.muttng/muttngrc remain.
21 The $max_display_recips option has been added.
25 The $smtp_envelope option has been added.
27 To improve consistency, the following variables were renamed and
28 synonyms kept: $smtp_auth_username to $smtp_user and
29 $smtp_auth_password to $smtp_pass.
33 The $smtp_use_tls option has been added.
35 The $imap_check_subscribed option has been added in muttng and mutt.
39 The $imap_force_ssl option has been replaced with the more generic
40 $ssl_force_tls option.
44 For $sidebar_number_format, the expandos %c and %f are replaced with
45 their $status_format pendants %m and %F respectively. Use of %c and
46 %f is deprecated but still kept for compatibility.
50 Due to merging in changes made to mutt where NSS support was dropped,
51 it's dropped in mutt-ng too.
55 Because of reverting a (overly eager) mutt-ng-specific issue with
56 header caching, starting with revision 362, all caches must be removed
57 and rebuild again. Sorry for that.
61 Due to changes to internal structures introduced in SVN revision 344,
62 all header caches must be removed and rebuild.
64 The '-D' command line option has been added.
66 Editing threads functionality is no longer only available
67 in muttng as it has been integrated into mutt, too.
71 The $xterm_leave option has been added.
73 The '^' shortcut pointing to the current folder is no longer
74 only available in muttng as it has been integrated into mutt, too.
78 The 'prepare' script has been renamed to 'autogen.sh' as this name
79 seems to be used in many projects using the autotools too.
83 Pine compatibility for naming IMAP mailboxes has been removed, only
84 the common imap[s]:// syntax remains.
86 The first "round" of removing synonym variables is completed. The
87 replacements for the next round are: ask_followup_to ->
88 nntp_ask_followup_to, ask_x_comment_to -> nntp_ask_x_comment_to,
89 catchup_newsgroup -> nntp_catchup, followup_to_poster ->
90 nntp_followup_to_poster, group_index_format ->
91 nntp_group_index_format, inews -> nntp_inews, mime_subject ->
92 nntp_mime_subject, news_cache_dir -> nntp_cache_dir, news_server ->
93 nntp_host, newsrc -> nntp_newsrc, nntp_poll -> nntp_mail_check,
94 pop_checkinterval -> pop_mail_check, post_moderated ->
95 nntp_post_moderated, save_unsubscribed -> nntp_save_unsubscribed,
96 show_new_news -> nntp_show_new_news, show_only_unread ->
97 nntp_show_only_unread, x_comment_to -> nntp_x_comment_to. Please use
98 the contrib/update-config.pl script to update.
100 Due to frequent trouble, $imap_mail_check now defaults to 300 seconds
101 (5 minutes) rather than 5 seconds.
103 The configuration variable $strict_mailto has been added.
107 Changes due to better integration of qdbm support w/ header caching:
109 - the $header_cache_pagesize variable is not available with as it's
111 - the following feature tests were added: feature_qdbm, feature_gdbm,
112 feature_db4 (for ifdef/ifndef)
116 New Configuration Variables:
117 - $header_cache_compress - compress header cache database with qdbm
118 when switching to qdbm, please make sure to _first_ _completely_
119 remove the old header cache (files) as you need to start off from
120 scratch; compressed qdbm require much less space (only ~1/5)
124 New Configuration Variables:
125 - $sidebar_boundary - boundary characters for name compression
126 - $sidebar_number_format - control if and how to print/count numbers
129 - $shorten_hierarchy is now named $sidebar_shorten_hierarchy
130 (still kept as synonym)
134 New Configuration Variables:
135 - $sidebar_newmail_only - if set, only mailboxes with new mail will
136 be shown in the sidebar
140 New Configuration Variables:
146 New Configuration Command (based on CD's ifdef Patch):
153 - $imap_mail_check is split from $mail_check
154 - $force_buffy_check forces check on <buffy-list>
159 - 'sidebar [fg] [bg]' for the delimiter
166 ask_follow_up, ask_x_comment_to, followup_to_poster,
167 group_index_format, catchup_newsgroup, inews, news_cache_dir,
168 newsrc,news_server, nntp_context, nntp_load_description, nntp_pass,
169 nntp_poll, nntp_reconnect, nntp_user, post_moderated,
170 save_unsubscribed, show_new_news, show_only_unread, x_comment_to
172 Quoting-Initials-Support
176 smtp_auth_password, smtp_auth_username, smtp_host, smtp_port
178 Assumed Character Set Patch:
179 assumed_charset, strict_mime, file_charset
182 maildir_header_cache_verify, header_cache
185 sidebar_delim, sidebar_visible, sidebar_width, shorten_hierarchy
187 Format Flowed Improvements:
188 max_line_length, quote_empty, quote_quoted, stuff_quoted
191 xterm_icon, xterm_set_titles, xterm_title
194 imap_reconnect, msgid_format, operating_system, shorten_hierarchy,
195 signoff_string, umask
203 change-newsgroup, change-newsgroup-readonly, forward-to-group,
204 followup-message, get-children, get-message, get-parent,
205 reconstruct-thread, post-message, catchup, edit-newsgroups,
206 edit-followup-to, edit-x-comment-to, reload-active,
207 subscribe-pattern, unsubscribe-pattern, catchup, uncatchup,
216 break-thread, link-threads
219 sidebar-open, sidebar-next, sidebar-prev, sidebar-next-new,
220 sidebar-prev-new, sidebar-scroll-up, sidebar-scroll-down
224 Compressed-Folder Support:
225 close-hook, open-hook, append-hook
230 sidebar_new, sidebar_flagged
237 The config files were renamed. Instead of ~/.muttrc it's now
238 ~/.muttngrc, instead of /etc/Muttrc it's now /etc/Muttngrc and
241 The config directories were renamed too. If you used .mutt/ for
242 config file you have to use .muttng/ now.
244 The following tools were removed:
245 bin/flea, bin/muttbug, bin/mutt_dotlock, bin/pgpewrap, bin/pgpring,
246 bin/smime_keys and etc/mime.types.
247 They were replaced by:
248 bin/fleang, bin/muttngbug, bin/muttng_dotlock, bin/pgpewrapng
249 bin/pgpringng, bin/smime_keysng and etc/muttng-mime.types.
250 Please check and update your configuration.