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 $editor_headers option has been added.
17 The %Z expando of $index_format now also includes an 'A'
18 as the last character if a mail has attachments, i.e. is of
19 type multipart and a space otherwise.
23 The $debug_level option has been added.
25 It's now possible to define and use arbitrary self-defined
26 variables as long as prefixed with user_.
28 The $user_agent variable had to be renamed to $agent_string.
30 To keep consistency, the -D option has been removed again in
35 Instead of only supporting to expand environment variables via
36 $NAME, it's now possible to query for all variables, too, e.g.
37 'set imap_home_namespace = $folder'.
39 The $abort_noattach and $attach_remind_regexp options have been
40 added to remind users of possibly forgotten attachments.
44 The $delete_space option has been added.
48 Reading configurations from ~/.muttngrc-$version and
49 ~/.muttng/muttngrc-$version is no longer supported;
50 ~/.muttngrc and ~/.muttng/muttngrc remain.
54 The $max_display_recips option has been added.
58 The $smtp_envelope option has been added.
60 To improve consistency, the following variables were renamed and
61 synonyms kept: $smtp_auth_username to $smtp_user and
62 $smtp_auth_password to $smtp_pass.
66 The $smtp_use_tls option has been added.
68 The $imap_check_subscribed option has been added in muttng and mutt.
72 The $imap_force_ssl option has been replaced with the more generic
73 $ssl_force_tls option.
77 For $sidebar_number_format, the expandos %c and %f are replaced with
78 their $status_format pendants %m and %F respectively. Use of %c and
79 %f is deprecated but still kept for compatibility.
83 Due to merging in changes made to mutt where NSS support was dropped,
84 it's dropped in mutt-ng too.
88 Because of reverting a (overly eager) mutt-ng-specific issue with
89 header caching, starting with revision 362, all caches must be removed
90 and rebuild again. Sorry for that.
94 Due to changes to internal structures introduced in SVN revision 344,
95 all header caches must be removed and rebuild.
97 The '-D' command line option has been added.
99 Editing threads functionality is no longer only available
100 in muttng as it has been integrated into mutt, too.
104 The $xterm_leave option has been added.
106 The '^' shortcut pointing to the current folder is no longer
107 only available in muttng as it has been integrated into mutt, too.
111 The 'prepare' script has been renamed to 'autogen.sh' as this name
112 seems to be used in many projects using the autotools too.
116 Pine compatibility for naming IMAP mailboxes has been removed, only
117 the common imap[s]:// syntax remains.
119 The first "round" of removing synonym variables is completed. The
120 replacements for the next round are: ask_followup_to ->
121 nntp_ask_followup_to, ask_x_comment_to -> nntp_ask_x_comment_to,
122 catchup_newsgroup -> nntp_catchup, followup_to_poster ->
123 nntp_followup_to_poster, group_index_format ->
124 nntp_group_index_format, inews -> nntp_inews, mime_subject ->
125 nntp_mime_subject, news_cache_dir -> nntp_cache_dir, news_server ->
126 nntp_host, newsrc -> nntp_newsrc, nntp_poll -> nntp_mail_check,
127 pop_checkinterval -> pop_mail_check, post_moderated ->
128 nntp_post_moderated, save_unsubscribed -> nntp_save_unsubscribed,
129 show_new_news -> nntp_show_new_news, show_only_unread ->
130 nntp_show_only_unread, x_comment_to -> nntp_x_comment_to. Please use
131 the contrib/update-config.pl script to update.
133 Due to frequent trouble, $imap_mail_check now defaults to 300 seconds
134 (5 minutes) rather than 5 seconds.
136 The configuration variable $strict_mailto has been added.
140 Changes due to better integration of qdbm support w/ header caching:
142 - the $header_cache_pagesize variable is not available with as it's
144 - the following feature tests were added: feature_qdbm, feature_gdbm,
145 feature_db4 (for ifdef/ifndef)
149 New Configuration Variables:
150 - $header_cache_compress - compress header cache database with qdbm
151 when switching to qdbm, please make sure to _first_ _completely_
152 remove the old header cache (files) as you need to start off from
153 scratch; compressed qdbm require much less space (only ~1/5)
157 New Configuration Variables:
158 - $sidebar_boundary - boundary characters for name compression
159 - $sidebar_number_format - control if and how to print/count numbers
162 - $shorten_hierarchy is now named $sidebar_shorten_hierarchy
163 (still kept as synonym)
167 New Configuration Variables:
168 - $sidebar_newmail_only - if set, only mailboxes with new mail will
169 be shown in the sidebar
173 New Configuration Variables:
179 New Configuration Command (based on CD's ifdef Patch):
186 - $imap_mail_check is split from $mail_check
187 - $force_buffy_check forces check on <buffy-list>
192 - 'sidebar [fg] [bg]' for the delimiter
199 ask_follow_up, ask_x_comment_to, followup_to_poster,
200 group_index_format, catchup_newsgroup, inews, news_cache_dir,
201 newsrc,news_server, nntp_context, nntp_load_description, nntp_pass,
202 nntp_poll, nntp_reconnect, nntp_user, post_moderated,
203 save_unsubscribed, show_new_news, show_only_unread, x_comment_to
205 Quoting-Initials-Support
209 smtp_auth_password, smtp_auth_username, smtp_host, smtp_port
211 Assumed Character Set Patch:
212 assumed_charset, strict_mime, file_charset
215 maildir_header_cache_verify, header_cache
218 sidebar_delim, sidebar_visible, sidebar_width, shorten_hierarchy
220 Format Flowed Improvements:
221 max_line_length, quote_empty, quote_quoted, stuff_quoted
224 xterm_icon, xterm_set_titles, xterm_title
227 imap_reconnect, msgid_format, operating_system, shorten_hierarchy,
228 signoff_string, umask
236 change-newsgroup, change-newsgroup-readonly, forward-to-group,
237 followup-message, get-children, get-message, get-parent,
238 reconstruct-thread, post-message, catchup, edit-newsgroups,
239 edit-followup-to, edit-x-comment-to, reload-active,
240 subscribe-pattern, unsubscribe-pattern, catchup, uncatchup,
249 break-thread, link-threads
252 sidebar-open, sidebar-next, sidebar-prev, sidebar-next-new,
253 sidebar-prev-new, sidebar-scroll-up, sidebar-scroll-down
257 Compressed-Folder Support:
258 close-hook, open-hook, append-hook
263 sidebar_new, sidebar_flagged
270 The config files were renamed. Instead of ~/.muttrc it's now
271 ~/.muttngrc, instead of /etc/Muttrc it's now /etc/Muttngrc and
274 The config directories were renamed too. If you used .mutt/ for
275 config file you have to use .muttng/ now.
277 The following tools were removed:
278 bin/flea, bin/muttbug, bin/mutt_dotlock, bin/pgpewrap, bin/pgpring,
279 bin/smime_keys and etc/mime.types.
280 They were replaced by:
281 bin/fleang, bin/muttngbug, bin/muttng_dotlock, bin/pgpewrapng
282 bin/pgpringng, bin/smime_keysng and etc/muttng-mime.types.
283 Please check and update your configuration.