[ILUG] mutt 1.2 out

[John P. Looney]

On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 10:40:38AM +0100, lbedford at wbtsystems.com mentioned:
> On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 10:36:02AM +0100, John P. Looney wrote:
> >  Right - anyone still using crappy mail clients, like Netscape or PINE,
> > now is your chance to upgrade!!!
> Well, where's the changelog? or at least a summary of what is
> better... does it have good IMAP support yet? or is it still
> a bit wonky?

 I've only had two problems with it's IMAP support:
    Mutt crashes when try and read a "postponed" mail from an IMAP server
    Moving from UW-IMAP to CourierIMAP really really confuses mutt.

 Quick list of things:



- heavily improved IMAP support (thanks to Brandon Long
  and Brendan Cully for their work),

- support for using IMAP over SSL (thanks to Tommi
  Kommulainen),

- a completely changed interface for configuring mutt's
  PGP support.  It's now format-based, and much more
  flexible than it used to be in the past.

- a split of the old edit-message command into
  resend-message and edit-message.  While the former gives
  you what could be described as "recall from arbitrary
  folders", the latter can be used to low-level modify
  messages.

- the (header) weeding paradigma has changed.  Instead of options
  controlling weeding behaviour for all kinds of purposes,
  there is one global $weed option which is toggled when
  you use what used to be known as display-headers (now
  display-toggle-weed).  That is, you have some kind of
  "WYSIWYG" support with weeding.

- we have a muttrc (5) manual page now, and it's even
  up-to-date.

- you can better control your messages' header and
  envelope from headers

- the message commands on the attachment menu have been
  rewritten.  Just try replying to an attachment, and
  you'll see what happens. ;-)

- mailing list support has changed.  You may wish to
  rename your "lists" commands to "subscribe".  But please
  read README.UPGRADE before!

- Bug fixes of all sorts.

Kate

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