UPGRADING

   1 This documents describes changes
   2
   3   - made to configuration variables, functions and the like which are
   4     not backwards-compatible and/or which do not exist in mutt
   5
   6   - other changes which might break existing user configuration and thus
   7     have to be documented
   8
   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.
  12
  13 2005-06-16:
  14
  15   Pine compatibility for naming IMAP mailboxes has been removed, only
  16   the common imap[s]:// syntax remains.
  17
  18 2005-05-17:
  19
  20   Changes due to better integration of qdbm support w/ header caching:
  21
  22     - the $header_cache_pagesize variable is not available with as it's
  23       not used
  24     - the following feature tests were added: feature_qdbm, feature_gdbm,
  25       feature_db4 (for ifdef/ifndef)
  26
  27 2005-05-14:
  28
  29   New Configuration Variables:
  30     - $header_cache_compress - compress header cache database with qdbm
  31       when switching to qdbm, please make sure to _first_ _completely_
  32       remove the old header cache (files) as you need to start off from
  33       scratch; compressed qdbm require much less space (only ~1/5)
  34
  35 2005-04-18:
  36
  37   New Configuration Variables:
  38     - $sidebar_boundary - boundary characters for name compression
  39     - $sidebar_number_format - control if and how to print/count numbers
  40
  41   Renamed Variables:
  42     - $shorten_hierarchy is now named $sidebar_shorten_hierarchy
  43       (still kept as synonym)
  44
  45 2005-03-16:
  46
  47   New Configuration Variables:
  48     - $sidebar_newmail_only - if set, only mailboxes with new mail will
  49       be shown in the sidebar
  50
  51 2005-03-14
  52
  53   New Configuration Variables:
  54     - $strip_was
  55     - $strip_was_regex
  56
  57 2005-03-10
  58
  59   New Configuration Command (based on CD's ifdef Patch):
  60     - ifdef
  61     - ifndef
  62
  63 2005-03-07
  64
  65   New Variables:
  66     - $imap_mail_check is split from $mail_check
  67     - $force_buffy_check forces check on <buffy-list>
  68
  69 2005-03-05
  70
  71   New Color:
  72     - 'sidebar [fg] [bg]' for the delimiter
  73
  74 2005-03-01 (init)
  75
  76   New Variables:
  77
  78     NNTP-Support:
  79     ask_follow_up, ask_x_comment_to, followup_to_poster,
  80     group_index_format, catchup_newsgroup, inews, news_cache_dir,
  81     newsrc,news_server, nntp_context, nntp_load_description, nntp_pass,
  82     nntp_poll, nntp_reconnect, nntp_user, post_moderated,
  83     save_unsubscribed, show_new_news, show_only_unread, x_comment_to
  84
  85     Quoting-Initials-Support
  86     indent_string
  87
  88     libESMTP-Support:
  89     smtp_auth_password, smtp_auth_username, smtp_host, smtp_port
  90
  91     Assumed Character Set Patch:
  92     assumed_charset, strict_mime, file_charset
  93
  94     Header Caching:
  95     maildir_header_cache_verify, header_cache
  96
  97     Sidebar:
  98     sidebar_delim, sidebar_visible, sidebar_width, shorten_hierarchy
  99
 100     Format Flowed Improvements:
 101     max_line_length, quote_empty, quote_quoted, stuff_quoted
 102
 103     XTerm-Titles Patch:
 104     xterm_icon, xterm_set_titles, xterm_title
 105
 106     Misc.
 107     imap_reconnect, msgid_format, operating_system, shorten_hierarchy,
 108     signoff_string, umask
 109
 110     Trash-Folder Patch:
 111     trash
 112
 113   New Functions:
 114
 115     NNTP-Support:
 116     change-newsgroup, change-newsgroup-readonly, forward-to-group,
 117     followup-message, get-children, get-message, get-parent,
 118     reconstruct-thread, post-message, catchup, edit-newsgroups,
 119     edit-followup-to, edit-x-comment-to, reload-active,
 120     subscribe-pattern, unsubscribe-pattern, catchup, uncatchup,
 121
 122     Purge-Message Patch:
 123     purge-message
 124
 125     List-Reply Patch
 126     list_reply
 127
 128     Patch edit_threads:
 129     break-thread, link-threads
 130
 131     Sidebar:
 132     sidebar-open, sidebar-next, sidebar-prev, sidebar-next-new,
 133     sidebar-prev-new, sidebar-scroll-up, sidebar-scroll-down
 134
 135   New Hooks:
 136
 137     Compressed-Folder Support:
 138     close-hook, open-hook, append-hook
 139
 140   New Misc.:
 141
 142     Sidebar Colors:
 143     sidebar_new, sidebar_flagged
 144
 145     Scoring Patterns:
 146     ~*
 147
 148   Other Changes:
 149
 150     The config files were renamed. Instead of ~/.muttrc it's now
 151     ~/.muttngrc, instead of /etc/Muttrc it's now /etc/Muttngrc and
 152     so on.
 153
 154     The config directories were renamed too. If you used .mutt/ for
 155     config file you have to use .muttng/ now.
 156
 157     The following tools were removed:
 158     bin/flea, bin/muttbug, bin/mutt_dotlock, bin/pgpewrap, bin/pgpring,
 159     bin/smime_keys and etc/mime.types.
 160     They were replaced by:
 161     bin/fleang, bin/muttngbug, bin/muttng_dotlock, bin/pgpewrapng
 162     bin/pgpringng, bin/smime_keysng and etc/muttng-mime.types.
 163     Please check and update your configuration.