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 Instead of only supporting to expand environment variables via
16 $NAME, it's now possible to query for all variables, too, e.g.
17 'set imap_home_namespace = $folder'.
19 The $abort_noattach and $attach_remind_regexp options have been
20 added to remind users of possibly forgotten attachments.
24 The $delete_space option has been added.
28 Reading configurations from ~/.muttngrc-$version and
29 ~/.muttng/muttngrc-$version is no longer supported;
30 ~/.muttngrc and ~/.muttng/muttngrc remain.
34 The $max_display_recips option has been added.
38 The $smtp_envelope option has been added.
40 To improve consistency, the following variables were renamed and
41 synonyms kept: $smtp_auth_username to $smtp_user and
42 $smtp_auth_password to $smtp_pass.
46 The $smtp_use_tls option has been added.
48 The $imap_check_subscribed option has been added in muttng and mutt.
52 The $imap_force_ssl option has been replaced with the more generic
53 $ssl_force_tls option.
57 For $sidebar_number_format, the expandos %c and %f are replaced with
58 their $status_format pendants %m and %F respectively. Use of %c and
59 %f is deprecated but still kept for compatibility.
63 Due to merging in changes made to mutt where NSS support was dropped,
64 it's dropped in mutt-ng too.
68 Because of reverting a (overly eager) mutt-ng-specific issue with
69 header caching, starting with revision 362, all caches must be removed
70 and rebuild again. Sorry for that.
74 Due to changes to internal structures introduced in SVN revision 344,
75 all header caches must be removed and rebuild.
77 The '-D' command line option has been added.
79 Editing threads functionality is no longer only available
80 in muttng as it has been integrated into mutt, too.
84 The $xterm_leave option has been added.
86 The '^' shortcut pointing to the current folder is no longer
87 only available in muttng as it has been integrated into mutt, too.
91 The 'prepare' script has been renamed to 'autogen.sh' as this name
92 seems to be used in many projects using the autotools too.
96 Pine compatibility for naming IMAP mailboxes has been removed, only
97 the common imap[s]:// syntax remains.
99 The first "round" of removing synonym variables is completed. The
100 replacements for the next round are: ask_followup_to ->
101 nntp_ask_followup_to, ask_x_comment_to -> nntp_ask_x_comment_to,
102 catchup_newsgroup -> nntp_catchup, followup_to_poster ->
103 nntp_followup_to_poster, group_index_format ->
104 nntp_group_index_format, inews -> nntp_inews, mime_subject ->
105 nntp_mime_subject, news_cache_dir -> nntp_cache_dir, news_server ->
106 nntp_host, newsrc -> nntp_newsrc, nntp_poll -> nntp_mail_check,
107 pop_checkinterval -> pop_mail_check, post_moderated ->
108 nntp_post_moderated, save_unsubscribed -> nntp_save_unsubscribed,
109 show_new_news -> nntp_show_new_news, show_only_unread ->
110 nntp_show_only_unread, x_comment_to -> nntp_x_comment_to. Please use
111 the contrib/update-config.pl script to update.
113 Due to frequent trouble, $imap_mail_check now defaults to 300 seconds
114 (5 minutes) rather than 5 seconds.
116 The configuration variable $strict_mailto has been added.
120 Changes due to better integration of qdbm support w/ header caching:
122 - the $header_cache_pagesize variable is not available with as it's
124 - the following feature tests were added: feature_qdbm, feature_gdbm,
125 feature_db4 (for ifdef/ifndef)
129 New Configuration Variables:
130 - $header_cache_compress - compress header cache database with qdbm
131 when switching to qdbm, please make sure to _first_ _completely_
132 remove the old header cache (files) as you need to start off from
133 scratch; compressed qdbm require much less space (only ~1/5)
137 New Configuration Variables:
138 - $sidebar_boundary - boundary characters for name compression
139 - $sidebar_number_format - control if and how to print/count numbers
142 - $shorten_hierarchy is now named $sidebar_shorten_hierarchy
143 (still kept as synonym)
147 New Configuration Variables:
148 - $sidebar_newmail_only - if set, only mailboxes with new mail will
149 be shown in the sidebar
153 New Configuration Variables:
159 New Configuration Command (based on CD's ifdef Patch):
166 - $imap_mail_check is split from $mail_check
167 - $force_buffy_check forces check on <buffy-list>
172 - 'sidebar [fg] [bg]' for the delimiter
179 ask_follow_up, ask_x_comment_to, followup_to_poster,
180 group_index_format, catchup_newsgroup, inews, news_cache_dir,
181 newsrc,news_server, nntp_context, nntp_load_description, nntp_pass,
182 nntp_poll, nntp_reconnect, nntp_user, post_moderated,
183 save_unsubscribed, show_new_news, show_only_unread, x_comment_to
185 Quoting-Initials-Support
189 smtp_auth_password, smtp_auth_username, smtp_host, smtp_port
191 Assumed Character Set Patch:
192 assumed_charset, strict_mime, file_charset
195 maildir_header_cache_verify, header_cache
198 sidebar_delim, sidebar_visible, sidebar_width, shorten_hierarchy
200 Format Flowed Improvements:
201 max_line_length, quote_empty, quote_quoted, stuff_quoted
204 xterm_icon, xterm_set_titles, xterm_title
207 imap_reconnect, msgid_format, operating_system, shorten_hierarchy,
208 signoff_string, umask
216 change-newsgroup, change-newsgroup-readonly, forward-to-group,
217 followup-message, get-children, get-message, get-parent,
218 reconstruct-thread, post-message, catchup, edit-newsgroups,
219 edit-followup-to, edit-x-comment-to, reload-active,
220 subscribe-pattern, unsubscribe-pattern, catchup, uncatchup,
229 break-thread, link-threads
232 sidebar-open, sidebar-next, sidebar-prev, sidebar-next-new,
233 sidebar-prev-new, sidebar-scroll-up, sidebar-scroll-down
237 Compressed-Folder Support:
238 close-hook, open-hook, append-hook
243 sidebar_new, sidebar_flagged
250 The config files were renamed. Instead of ~/.muttrc it's now
251 ~/.muttngrc, instead of /etc/Muttrc it's now /etc/Muttngrc and
254 The config directories were renamed too. If you used .mutt/ for
255 config file you have to use .muttng/ now.
257 The following tools were removed:
258 bin/flea, bin/muttbug, bin/mutt_dotlock, bin/pgpewrap, bin/pgpring,
259 bin/smime_keys and etc/mime.types.
260 They were replaced by:
261 bin/fleang, bin/muttngbug, bin/muttng_dotlock, bin/pgpewrapng
262 bin/pgpringng, bin/smime_keysng and etc/muttng-mime.types.
263 Please check and update your configuration.