What's new in mu 0.9.16
Jan 24, 2016
- Better behaviour and context handling:
- Context Handling just got smart: new ‘mu4e-context’ defines and switches between various contexts, which are groups of settings. This may be used for instance to easily configure and switch between multiple accounts.
- Improved behaviour in html and messages marks: ability to toggle between html and text display of messages & better management of messages marked as read or unread.
- User Interface improvements:
- Numerous improvements in threads view and mailing lists management
- Fancy characters can now be properly used as well as special customizations for message views
- Faster Indexing and message management:
- Indexing & caching optimizations
New in mu 0.9.9.5 (Apr 1, 2013)
- allow 'contact:' as a shortcut in queries for 'from:foo OR to:foo OR, cc:foo OR bcc:foo', and 'recip:' as a shortcut for 'to:foo OR, cc:foo OR bcc:foo'
- support getting related messages (--include-related), which includes messages that may not match the query, but that are in the same threads as messages that were
- support "list:"/"v:" for matching mailing list names, and the "v" format-field to show them. E.g 'mu find list:emacs-orgmode.gnu.org'
New in mu 0.9.9 (Oct 19, 2012)
- mu4e:
- view: address can be toggled long/short, compose message
- sanitize opening urls (mouse-1, and not too eager)
- tooltips for header labels, flags
- add sort buttons to header-labels
- support signing / decryption of messages
- improve address-autocompletion (e.g., ensure it's case-insensitive)
- much faster when there are many maildirs
- improved line wrapping
- better handle attached messages
- improved URL-matching
- improved messages to user (mu4e-(warn|error|message))
- add refiling functionality
- support fancy non-ascii in the UI
- dynamic folders (i.e.., allow mu4e-(sent|draft|trash|refile)-folder) to be a function
- dynamic attachment download folder (can be a function now)
- much improved manual
- mu:
- remove --summary (use --summary-len instead)
- add --after for mu find, to limit to messages after T
- add new command `mu verify', to verify signatures
- fix iso-2022-jp decoding (and other 7-bit clean non-ascii)
- add support for X-keywords
- performance improvements for threaded display (~ 25% for 23K msgs)
- mu improved user-help (and the 'mu help' command)
- toys/mug2 replaces toys/mug
- mu-guile:
- automated tests
- add mu:timestamp, mu:count
- handle db reopenings in the background
New in mu 0.9.8.5 (Jul 2, 2012)
- mu4e:
- auto-completion of e-mail addresses
- inline display of images (see `mu4e-view-show-images'), uses imagemagick if available
- interactively change number of headers / columns for showing headers with C-+ and C-- in headers, view mode
- support flagging message
- navigate to previous/next queries like a web browser (with , )
- narrow search results with '/'
- next/previous take a prefix arg now, to move to the nth previous/next message
- allow for writing rich-text messages with org-mode
- enable marking messages as Flagged
- custom marker functions (see manual)
- better "dwim" handling of buffer switching / killing
- deferred marking of message (i.e.., mark now, decide what to mark for later)
- enable changing of sort order, display of threads
- clearer marks for marked messages
- fix sorting by subject (disregarding Re:, Fwd: etc.)
- much faster handling when there are many maildirs (speedbar)
- handle mailto: links
- improved, extended documentation
- mu:
- support .noupdate files (parallel to .noindex, dir is ignored unless we're doing a --rebuild).
- append all inline text parts, when getting the text body
- respect custom maildir flags
- correctly handle the case where g_utf8_strdown (str) > len (str)
- make gtk, guile, webkit dependency optional, even if they are installed
New in mu 0.9.8.4 (May 9, 2012)
- mu4e:
- much faster header buffers
- split view mode (headers, view); see `mu4e-split-view'.
- add search history for queries
- ability to open attachments with arbitrary programs, pipe through shell commands or open in the current emacs
- quote names in recipient addresses
- mu4e-get-maildirs works now for recursive maildirs as well
- define arbitrary operations for headers/messages/attachments using the actions system -- see the chapter 'Actions' in the manual
- allow mu4e to be uses as the default emacs mailer (`mu4e-user-agent')
- mark headers based on a regexp, `mu4e-mark-matches', or '%'
- mark threads, sub-threads (mu4e-hdrs-mark-thread, mu4e-hdrs-mark-subthread, or 'T', 't')
- add msg2pdf toy
- easy logging (using `mu4e-toggle-logging')
- improve mu4e-speedbar for use in headers/view
- use the message-mode FCC system for saving messages to the sent-messages folder
- fix: off-by-one in number of matches shown
- general:
- fix for opening files with non-ascii names
- much improved support for searching non-Latin (Cyrillic etc.) languages we can now match 'Тесла' or 'Аркона' without problems
- smarter escaping (fixes issues with finding message ids)
- fixes for queries with brackets
- allow --summary-len for the length of message summaries
- numerous other small fixes
New in mu 0.9.8.3 (Apr 20, 2012)
- mu4e:
- allow for searching by editing bookmarks (`mu4e-search-bookmark-edit-first') (keybinding 'B')
- make it configurable what to do with sent messages (see `mu4e-sent-messages-behavior')
- speedbar support (initial patch by Antono V)
- automatically include signatures, if set
- add user-settable variables mu4e-view-wrap-lines and mu4e-view-hide-cited, which determine the initial way a message is isplayed
- improved documentation
- better handling of drafts:
- don't save too early
- more descriptive buffer names (based on Subject, if any)
- don't put "--text-follows-this-line--" markers in files
- general:
- much improved searching for GMail folders (i.e. maildir:/ matching); this requires a 'mu index --rebuild'
- correctly handle utf-8 messages, even if they don't specify this explicitly
- fix compiler warnings for newer/older gcc and clang/clang++
- fix unit tests (and some code) for Ubuntu 10.04 and FreeBSD9
- fix warnings for compilation with GTK+ 3.2 and recent glib (g_set_error)
- fixe mu_msg_move_to_maildir for top-level messages
- fixes in maildir scanning
- plugs some memleaks