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+Visible changes since Mutt 1.2
+==============================
+
+- 2005-01-09: Fork of Mutt -> Mutt-ng
+
+Folder formats and folder access
+--------------------------------
+
+- Better mh support: Mutt now supports .mh_sequences files.
+ Currently, the "unseen", "flagged", and "replied" sequences are
+ used to store mutt flags (the names are configurable using the
+ $mh_seq_unseen, $mh_seq_flagged, and $mh_seq_replied configuration
+ variables). As a side effect, messages in MH folders are no longer
+ rewritten upon status changes.
+
+- The "trashed" flag is supported for maildir folders. See
+ $maildir_trash.
+
+- POP folder support. You can now access a POP mailbox just like an
+ IMAP folder (with obvious restrictions due to the protocol).
+
+- URL syntax for remote folders. You can pass things like
+ pop://account@host and imap://account@host/folder as arguments for
+ the -f command line flag.
+
+- STARTTLS support. If $ssl_starttls is set (the default), mutt
+ will attempt to use STARTTLS on servers advertising that
+ capability.
+
+- $preconnect. If set, a shell command to be executed if mutt fails
+ to establish a connection to the server. This is useful for
+ setting up secure connections; see the muttrc(5) for details.
+
+- $tunnel. Use a pipe to a command instead of a raw socket. See
+ muttrc(5) for details. (Basically, it's another way for setting
+ up secure connections.)
+
+- More new IMAP/POP-related variables (see muttrc(5) for details):
+ $connect_timeout, $imap_authenticators, $imap_delim_chars,
+ $imap_peek, $pop_authenticators, $pop_auth_try_all,
+ $pop_checkinterval, $pop_delete, $pop_reconnect, $use_ipv6.
+
+- The following IMAP/POP-related variables are gone:
+ $imap_checkinterval, $imap_cramkey, $pop_port.
+
+- There's a new imap-fetch-mail function, which forces a check for
+ new messages on an IMAP server.
+
+- The new-mailbox function was renamed to create-mailbox, and is
+ bound to C instead of n by default.
+
+Character set support
+---------------------
+
+- Mutt now uses the iconv interface for character set conversions.
+ This means that you need either a very modern libc, or Bruno
+ Haible's libiconv, which is available from
+ <http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/>.
+
+- With sufficiently recent versions of ncurses and slang, mutt works
+ properly in utf-8 locales.
+
+- On sufficiently modern systems, the $charset variable's value is
+ automatically derived from the locale you use. (Note, however,
+ that manually setting it to a value which is compatible with your
+ locale doesn't do any harm.)
+
+- $send_charset is a colon-separated list of character sets now,
+ defaulting to us-ascii:iso-8859-1:utf-8.
+
+- charset-hook defines aliases for character sets encountered in
+ messages (say, someone tags his messages with latin15 when he
+ means iso-8859-15), iconv-hook defines local names for character
+ sets (for systems which don't know about MIME names; see
+ contrib/iconv for sample configuration snippets).
+
+- The change-charset function is gone. Use edit-type (C-e on the
+ compose menu) instead.
+
+- The recode-attachment function is gone.
+
+Other changes
+-------------
+
+- There's a new variable $compose_format for the compose screen's
+ status line. You can now include the message's approximate
+ on-the-wire size.
+
+- The attachment menu knows about collapsing now: Using
+ collapse-parts (bound to "v" by default), you can collapse and
+ uncollapse parts of the attachment tree. This function is also
+ available from the pager when invoked from the attachment tree.
+
+ Normally, the recvattach menu will start uncollapsed. However,
+ with the new $digest_collapse option (which is set by default),
+ the individual messages contained in digests will be displayed
+ collapsed. (That is, there's one line per message.)
+
+- Using $display_filter, you can specify a command which filters
+ messages before they are displayed.
+
+- Using message-hook, you can execute mutt configuration commands
+ before a message is displayed (or formatted before replying).
+
+- If you don't want that mutt moves flagged messages to your mbox,
+ set $keep_flagged.
+
+- Setting the $pgp_ignore_subkeys variable will cause mutt to ignore
+ OpenPGP. This option is set by default, and it's suggested that
+ you leave it.
+
+- $pgp_sign_micalg has gone. Mutt now automatically determines what
+ MIC algorithm was used for a particular signature.
+
+- If $pgp_good_sign is set, then a PGP signature is only considered
+ verified if the output from $pgp_verify_command matches this
+ regular expression. It's suggested that you set this variable to
+ the typical text message output by PGP (or GPG, or whatever)
+ produces when it encounters a good signature.
+
+- There's a new function, check-traditional-pgp, which is bound to
+ esc-P by default. It'll check whether a text parts of a message
+ contain PGP encrypted or signed material, and possibly adjust
+ content types.
+
+- $print_split. If this option is set, $print_command run
+ separately for each message you print. Useful with enscript(1)'s
+ mail printing mode.
+
+- $sig_on_top. Include the signature before any quoted or forwarded
+ text. WARNING: use of this option may provoke flames.
+
+- $text_flowed. When set, mutt will generate text/plain attachments
+ with the format=flowed parameter. In order to properly produce
+ such messages, you'll need an appropriate editor mode. Note that
+ the $indent_string option is ignored with flowed text.
+
+- $to_chars has grown: Mailing list messages are now tagged with an
+ L in the index. If you want the old behaviour back, add this to
+ your .muttrc: set to_chars=" +TCF "
+
+- New emacs-like functions in the line editor: backward-word (M-b),
+ capitalize-word (M-c), downcase-word (M-l), upcase-word (M-u),
+ forward-word (M-f), kill-eow (M-d), tranpose-chars (unbound).
+
+ transpose-chars is unbound by default because external query
+ occupies C-t. Suggested alternative binding:
+
+ bind editor "\e\t" complete-query
+ bind editor "\Ct" transpose-chars
+
+- mailto URL support: You can pass a mailto URL to mutt on the
+ command line.
+
+- If $duplicate_threads is set, mutt's new threading code will
+ thread messages with the same message-id together. Duplication
+ will be indicated with an equals sign in the thread diagram.
+
+ You can also limit your view to the duplicates (or exclude
+ duplicates from view) by using the "~=" pattern.
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