Note: this is a review of some of the more interesting features in this release. For a complete list of changes please be sure to read the UPDATING file.
We'd like to remove some cruft from the codebase supporting systems before the standardization of widechars. So we've deprecated the option in this release. In the next release, 2.5.0, we plan on removing the configure option.
If you currently configure with this option, please drop the dev team a note on the mutt-dev mailing list.
Mutt now has explicit thread open and close commands:
<open-thread>
<open-all-threads>
<close-thread>
<close-all-threads>.
$tmpdraftdir, defaulting to "/var/tmp", is where message composition draft files are now stored. On some systems, the contents of that directory survives a reboot, helping to prevent the loss of email after an unexpected system shutdown.
Patterns ~C and
~L will now match Bcc addresses too. This will
likely only be of use for email in your sent folder(s).
When tagging results from an address query, via
<query> in the index or
<complete-query> at an
address prompt, you may now
simply <exit> the menu and
your tagged selections will be used. Previously, you needed to
type Enter on a random entry.
There was a corner case where searching in the pager failed quite badly:
/^$ or similar, such as
/^[[:space:]]*$. This was due to
two issues, the REG_NEWLINE flag
being active, and also because newlines were not filtered from
the search. Both of these have been changed, so that regular
expressions should work as expected in those cases.
When configured with S-Lang, mutt should no longer crash when resizing the window. Please drop us a note if it still does for you.
Mbox parsing was made a bit less strict when parsing return paths, and after a content-length delimited message. It was also changed to report an error when messages missing a From_ line are found, where it would previously just ignore them.
Please let us know if you notice any problems.
Opening a Maildir folder now requires all three subdirectories:
new,
cur, and
tmp. Previously, mutt would only
check for cur. However that would
cause problems when actually using the Maildir folder.
This release contains newer gettext autoconf files, which flag a bug in MacOS's iconv implementation. If you are on MacOS, you will likely need to compile with libiconv in order to have iconv support enabled.
Classic S/MIME now
generates application/pkcs7-mime
and application/pkcs7-signature
types instead of the
deprecated x-pkcs7-mime
and x-pkcs7-signature types.