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 Several pre-defined read-only variables named $muttng_ have
16 been added; this feature is maybe subject to change in the near
19 The $editor_headers option has been added.
21 The %Z expando of $index_format now also includes an 'A'
22 as the last character if a mail has attachments, i.e. is of
23 type multipart and a space otherwise.
27 The $debug_level option has been added.
29 It's now possible to define and use arbitrary self-defined
30 variables as long as prefixed with user_.
32 The $user_agent variable had to be renamed to $agent_string.
34 To keep consistency, the -D option has been removed again in
39 Instead of only supporting to expand environment variables via
40 $NAME, it's now possible to query for all variables, too, e.g.
41 'set imap_home_namespace = $folder'.
43 The $abort_noattach and $attach_remind_regexp options have been
44 added to remind users of possibly forgotten attachments.
48 The $delete_space option has been added.
52 Reading configurations from ~/.muttngrc-$version and
53 ~/.muttng/muttngrc-$version is no longer supported;
54 ~/.muttngrc and ~/.muttng/muttngrc remain.
58 The $max_display_recips option has been added.
62 The $smtp_envelope option has been added.
64 To improve consistency, the following variables were renamed and
65 synonyms kept: $smtp_auth_username to $smtp_user and
66 $smtp_auth_password to $smtp_pass.
70 The $smtp_use_tls option has been added.
72 The $imap_check_subscribed option has been added in muttng and mutt.
76 The $imap_force_ssl option has been replaced with the more generic
77 $ssl_force_tls option.
81 For $sidebar_number_format, the expandos %c and %f are replaced with
82 their $status_format pendants %m and %F respectively. Use of %c and
83 %f is deprecated but still kept for compatibility.
87 Due to merging in changes made to mutt where NSS support was dropped,
88 it's dropped in mutt-ng too.
92 Because of reverting a (overly eager) mutt-ng-specific issue with
93 header caching, starting with revision 362, all caches must be removed
94 and rebuild again. Sorry for that.
98 Due to changes to internal structures introduced in SVN revision 344,
99 all header caches must be removed and rebuild.
101 The '-D' command line option has been added.
103 Editing threads functionality is no longer only available
104 in muttng as it has been integrated into mutt, too.
108 The $xterm_leave option has been added.
110 The '^' shortcut pointing to the current folder is no longer
111 only available in muttng as it has been integrated into mutt, too.
115 The 'prepare' script has been renamed to 'autogen.sh' as this name
116 seems to be used in many projects using the autotools too.
120 Pine compatibility for naming IMAP mailboxes has been removed, only
121 the common imap[s]:// syntax remains.
123 The first "round" of removing synonym variables is completed. The
124 replacements for the next round are: ask_followup_to ->
125 nntp_ask_followup_to, ask_x_comment_to -> nntp_ask_x_comment_to,
126 catchup_newsgroup -> nntp_catchup, followup_to_poster ->
127 nntp_followup_to_poster, group_index_format ->
128 nntp_group_index_format, inews -> nntp_inews, mime_subject ->
129 nntp_mime_subject, news_cache_dir -> nntp_cache_dir, news_server ->
130 nntp_host, newsrc -> nntp_newsrc, nntp_poll -> nntp_mail_check,
131 pop_checkinterval -> pop_mail_check, post_moderated ->
132 nntp_post_moderated, save_unsubscribed -> nntp_save_unsubscribed,
133 show_new_news -> nntp_show_new_news, show_only_unread ->
134 nntp_show_only_unread, x_comment_to -> nntp_x_comment_to. Please use
135 the contrib/update-config.pl script to update.
137 Due to frequent trouble, $imap_mail_check now defaults to 300 seconds
138 (5 minutes) rather than 5 seconds.
140 The configuration variable $strict_mailto has been added.
144 Changes due to better integration of qdbm support w/ header caching:
146 - the $header_cache_pagesize variable is not available with as it's
148 - the following feature tests were added: feature_qdbm, feature_gdbm,
149 feature_db4 (for ifdef/ifndef)
153 New Configuration Variables:
154 - $header_cache_compress - compress header cache database with qdbm
155 when switching to qdbm, please make sure to _first_ _completely_
156 remove the old header cache (files) as you need to start off from
157 scratch; compressed qdbm require much less space (only ~1/5)
161 New Configuration Variables:
162 - $sidebar_boundary - boundary characters for name compression
163 - $sidebar_number_format - control if and how to print/count numbers
166 - $shorten_hierarchy is now named $sidebar_shorten_hierarchy
167 (still kept as synonym)
171 New Configuration Variables:
172 - $sidebar_newmail_only - if set, only mailboxes with new mail will
173 be shown in the sidebar
177 New Configuration Variables:
183 New Configuration Command (based on CD's ifdef Patch):
190 - $imap_mail_check is split from $mail_check
191 - $force_buffy_check forces check on <buffy-list>
196 - 'sidebar [fg] [bg]' for the delimiter
203 ask_follow_up, ask_x_comment_to, followup_to_poster,
204 group_index_format, catchup_newsgroup, inews, news_cache_dir,
205 newsrc,news_server, nntp_context, nntp_load_description, nntp_pass,
206 nntp_poll, nntp_reconnect, nntp_user, post_moderated,
207 save_unsubscribed, show_new_news, show_only_unread, x_comment_to
209 Quoting-Initials-Support
213 smtp_auth_password, smtp_auth_username, smtp_host, smtp_port
215 Assumed Character Set Patch:
216 assumed_charset, strict_mime, file_charset
219 maildir_header_cache_verify, header_cache
222 sidebar_delim, sidebar_visible, sidebar_width, shorten_hierarchy
224 Format Flowed Improvements:
225 max_line_length, quote_empty, quote_quoted, stuff_quoted
228 xterm_icon, xterm_set_titles, xterm_title
231 imap_reconnect, msgid_format, operating_system, shorten_hierarchy,
232 signoff_string, umask
240 change-newsgroup, change-newsgroup-readonly, forward-to-group,
241 followup-message, get-children, get-message, get-parent,
242 reconstruct-thread, post-message, catchup, edit-newsgroups,
243 edit-followup-to, edit-x-comment-to, reload-active,
244 subscribe-pattern, unsubscribe-pattern, catchup, uncatchup,
253 break-thread, link-threads
256 sidebar-open, sidebar-next, sidebar-prev, sidebar-next-new,
257 sidebar-prev-new, sidebar-scroll-up, sidebar-scroll-down
261 Compressed-Folder Support:
262 close-hook, open-hook, append-hook
267 sidebar_new, sidebar_flagged
274 The config files were renamed. Instead of ~/.muttrc it's now
275 ~/.muttngrc, instead of /etc/Muttrc it's now /etc/Muttngrc and
278 The config directories were renamed too. If you used .mutt/ for
279 config file you have to use .muttng/ now.
281 The following tools were removed:
282 bin/flea, bin/muttbug, bin/mutt_dotlock, bin/pgpewrap, bin/pgpring,
283 bin/smime_keys and etc/mime.types.
284 They were replaced by:
285 bin/fleang, bin/muttngbug, bin/muttng_dotlock, bin/pgpewrapng
286 bin/pgpringng, bin/smime_keysng and etc/muttng-mime.types.
287 Please check and update your configuration.