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* Changes in MH-E 7.2

This release includes the new features of filing hints, hierarchical
file name completion, indexed search and pick integration, unification
between `mh-visit-folder' and the speedbar, a displayed message


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* COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2003, 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
	
Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
notice and this notice are preserved.

* Changes in MH-E 7.85

Version 7.85 heralds a migration of the CVS repository from
SourceForge to Savannah only for those files that were already part of
Emacs. As a result, two incompatibilities were introduced with this
release: the location of MH-E in the load-path has changed, and
mh-e-autoloads.el was renamed to mh-autoloads.el. While this migration
will benefit maintainers, it will also benefit users: CVS Emacs users
will not have to check out MH-E separately and welcome faster MH-E
updates, and CVS MH-E users will welcome faster MH-E updates from
Emacs developers. Read section CVS MH-E INSTALL in the README for
details.

MH-E now works on a Mac. See section INSTALL in the README for details.

** Bug Fixes in MH-E 7.85

*** Prompts Now Follow Current Conventions 

Instead of "Prompt: [<default>] ", the prompts now look like "Prompt
(default: <default>): ".

*** Face Variable Names Now Follow Current Conventions

The -face suffix has been dropped from all face names. 

*** Default Identity Prevents Insertion of Auto Fields

Auto insertion of an identity now occurs even when the default
identity is used (closes SF #1204506).

*** mh-compose-forward and Default Message Number

mh-compose-forward will now default to the sent message in the sent
folder and the `cur' message in other folders. It also takes ranges of
messages and can include multiple messages at a time (closes SF
#1205890).

*** mh-customize Uses Group mh, Not mh-e

The `mh' customization group alias has been deleted to avoid some
problems that were found (closes SF #1213716).

*** font-lock Error in mh-letter-mode

An error in MH-E was introduced as a result of a change in CVS Emacs.
This has been fixed (closes SF #1241017).



* Changes in MH-E 7.84

Version 7.84 contains no user-visible changes. This version
incorporates changes made in CVS Emacs such as the removal of some
deprecated software.

* Changes in MH-E 7.83

Version 7.83 fixes a handful of bugs, adds colors to buttons for
signed or encrypted messages, and contains some documentation changes
related to the upcoming release of the manual. Some options were moved
to other customization groups as a result.

While not related to this release, the MH-E mailing lists are now
gatewayed at gmane.org (closes SF #979308).

** New Variables in MH-E 7.83

*** mh-show-pgg-bad-face

Face used to highlight a bad PGG signature.

*** mh-show-pgg-good-face

Face used to highlight a good PGG signature.

*** mh-show-pgg-unknown-face

Face used to highlight a PGG signature whose status is unknown. This
face is also used for a signature when the signer is untrusted.

** Bug Fixes in MH-E 7.83

*** Whitespace in pick Expressions

The "C-u / s RET" command now works. In addition, you can now add
whitespace to any of the limiting (/) commands (closes SF #1122655).

*** auto-mode-alist Updated

MH-E originally updated auto-mode-alist to set the major mode of
drafts. Now that we explicitly set the mode, there is no reason to do
this, and this behavior caused problems for people who didn't use MH-E
who were editing files that looked like MH message files (closes SF
#1032353).

*** mh-show-unquote-From Fails (read-only buffer)

MH-E quotes the "From " header field that is inserted by MTAs.
However, it was trying to do this in a read-only buffer. This has been
fixed (closes SF #1089870).

*** rmmproc Refile Complains No Such Message

MH-E would get confused about which folder to delete messages from if
you were refiling and deleting messages at the same time. This has
been fixed (closes SF #1023959).

*** ! Doesn't Do Regions

Now it does (closes SF #1046330).

*** Swish Fixes

Items in swish indexes that aren't mail messages are now handled more
gracefully.

*** Spamassassin Fixes

If you use spamassassin, there was an error when you tried to junk
mail if the option mh-junk-background was set. This has been fixed.

*** Mairix Support

Indexing now compatible with Mairix version 0.12 and later.



* Changes in MH-E 7.82

Version 7.82 continues to address the saga surrounding the use of CL
macros in CVS Emacs and fixes the auto-detection of vanilla MH (closes
SF #1014781).

* Changes in MH-E 7.81

Version 7.81 fixes a `wrong-type-argument' argument error that
sometimes occurred when processing the Message-ID, adds the ";
(mh-toggle-mh-decode-mime-flag)" command, and uses ":default" instead
of "default" in `mh-identity-handlers' to avoid problems with
"Default:" as a user defined field. If you have modified
`mh-identity-handlers' in your .emacs, you'll need to rename "default"
to ":default". This release also corrects the release numbering; the
previous version number was intended to be 7.80.



* Changes in MH-E 7.4.80

Version 7.4.80 now supports GNU mailutils, S/MIME, picons,
which-func-mode, has an improved interface for hiding header fields,
improves upon the MH variant detection, and contains many bug fixes.
Those of you familiar with the GNU version numbering schemes will
recognize this as an alpha release. This does not reflect on the
quality of this release which is as high as it has always been.
Although we are not ready to release 8.0, we want you to have access
to the work that has been hiding in CVS. At the same time we want to
make it clear that there are incompatible changes with previous
versions.

We are planning to release the long-awaited manual update synchronized
with version 8.0. We are using documentation from the manual in the
docstrings which is hoped to make "C-h f (describe-function)" really
useful and create a seamless experience when switching back and forth
between the manual and the docstrings. This has been done in about
half of the variables and functions in this version.

The writing of the manual has revealed a few inconsistencies in the
software whose fixes have resulted in incompatible changes, and there
may well be more. So, unlike version 7 which was chock full of new
features, version 8's strengths will include complete documentation
and higher quality.

** New Features in MH-E 7.4.80

*** GNU mailutils Support

MH-E now supports GNU mailutils 0.4 and higher versions.

*** S/MIME Support

MH-E now supports S/MIME using Gnus 5.10.6 or higher.

*** Picon Support

In addition to the other methods of displaying an icon for the sender
of a message, MH-E can now display images from a picon directory. The
directory search path is found in the `mh-picon-directory-list'
variable. More documentation is found in the "facedb" sections in the
xfaces man page. [NOTE: need to make mh-picon-directory-list an option
and add xfaces facedb documentation to it.]

*** X-Image-URL Updates

Now support the use of `curl' and `fetch' as alternatives to `wget' to
obtain the image. The display of images are controlled with the
`mh-show-use-xface-flag' option while the `mh-fetch-x-image-url'
option controls how the images are fetched.

WARNING: There are security concerns with this feature. Please read
the documentation for these options carefully before changing the
default.

*** Updates to mh-identity-list

Note that the field names found in `mh-identity-list' that refer to
the fields in `mh-identity-handlers' have changed in an incompatible
way from 7.4.4. In general, the symbolic names now have a ":" prefix
to avoid collisions with header fields. Before starting Emacs, edit
your .emacs and insert ":" before "signature" if you have defined it.

You can change your attribution in replies with the new "Attribution
Verb" field, and you can set your default GPG user ID with the "GPG
key ID" field.

Signatures can now be read from the `mh-signature-file-name' variable,
or come from a function, in addition to a named file. If you write
your own function, variables that you can use include
`mh-signature-separator-regexp', `mh-signature-separator',
and `mh-signature-separator-p'.

The handling of these fields has been moved into a new
`mh-identity-handlers' option, an alist of fields (strings) and
handlers (functions). Strings are lowercase. Use ":signature" for
Signature and ":pgg-default-user-id" for GPG Key ID. The function
associated with the string "default" is used if no other functions are
appropriate. For this reason, don't name a header field "Default".

If you point your signature at a vCard file with a vcf suffix, then it
will be incorporated as a vCard body part (closes SF #802723).

*** Catchup Command

There is a new "F c (mh-catchup)" command that marks all unread
messages in the current folder as read.

*** Change Content-Type Renderer on the Fly in MH-Show Buffer

This has been implemented by adding the key binding "K e
(mh-display-with-external-viewer)". For inline text/html parts,
buttons aren't displayed by default. In that case use "K t
(mh-toggle-mime-buttons)" to display the button before viewing it with
an external browser (closes SF #839318).

*** Use which-func-mode to Display Folder in Index Mode

Turning on `which-func-mode' displays the folder name of the message
under the cursor in index folders (closes SF #855520).

*** Render Signature and vCard in Italics

This has been implemented.  Use `mh-show-signature-face' to customize
the face used (closes SF #802722).

*** New Print Map

There is now a keymap for the printing functions whose prefix is "P".
The command "l (mh-print-msg)" has been replaced with "P l". Other new
functions in this keymap include:

    P A         mh-ps-print-toggle-mime
    P C         mh-ps-print-toggle-color
    P F         mh-ps-print-toggle-faces
    P M         mh-ps-print-toggle-mime
    P f         mh-ps-print-msg-file
    P l         mh-print-msg
    P p         mh-ps-print-msg
    P s         mh-ps-print-msg-show

*** Draft Buffer Keymap Changes

The keymap in the draft buffer has been modified slightly. The old
anonymous ftp and tar composition commands have been reinstated and
letter signing and encrypting keymaps have been added.

The type of signing or encryption has been generalized so the method
is now an option rather than a part of the function's name. The option
is `mh-mml-method-default' and choices include PGP (MIME), PGP,
S/MIME, or none.

Key		7.4.4			7.4.80

C-c RET C-e	mh-mml-secure-message-encrypt-pgpmime
					mh-mml-secure-message-encrypt
C-c RET C-s	mh-mml-secure-message-sign-pgpmime
					-
C-c RET C-g	-			mh-mhn-compose-anon-ftp
C-c RET C-n	-			mh-mml-unsecure-message
C-c RET C-s	-			mh-mml-secure-message-sign
C-c RET C-t	-			mh-mhn-compose-external-compressed-tar
C-c RET C-s	mh-mml-secure-message-sign-pgpmime
					mh-mml-secure-message-sign
C-c RET C-x	-			mh-mhn-compose-external-type
C-c RET e	mh-mml-secure-message-encrypt-pgpmime
					Prefix Command
C-c RET e e	-			mh-mml-secure-message-encrypt
C-c RET e s	-			mh-mml-secure-message-signencrypt
C-c RET g	-			mh-mhn-compose-anon-ftp
C-c RET n	-			mh-mml-unsecure-message
C-c RET s	mh-mml-secure-message-sign-pgpmime
					Prefix Command
C-c RET s e	-			mh-mml-secure-message-signencrypt
C-c RET s s	-			mh-mml-secure-message-sign
C-c RET t	-			mh-mhn-compose-external-compressed-tar
C-c RET x	-			mh-mhn-compose-external-type

*** Speedbar: Highlight Folders With Unseen

The speedbar now renders the folders with unseen messages in boldface
which makes them easier to identify (closes SF #623369).

*** Quick Key Help

The "? (mh-help)" function now displays the help in its own buffer
called *MH-E Help* (closes SF #493740 and SF #656631).

*** New Startup File mh-e-autoloads.el

If you are installing MH-E yourself, then you can replace any
autoloads you may have with "(require 'mh-e-autoloads.el)". See the
README for details.

*** Glimpse Support Removed

Since glimpse isn't free, we cannot mention it. Glimpse has been
removed from the option `mh-indexer-choices' (closes SF #831276).

*** mh-msg-is-in-seq Update

Can now specify an alternate message number to "S s
(mh-msg-is-in-seq)" with a prefix argument.

** New Variables in MH-E 7.4.80

Variables that have been added to MH-E that have not been discussed
elsewhere are listed here.

*** mail-citation-hook

Hook for modifying a citation just inserted in the mail buffer.

*** mh-alias-reloaded-hook

Invoked by `mh-alias-reload' after reloading aliases.

*** mh-auto-fields-prompt-flag

Non-nil means to prompt before sending if fields in
`mh-auto-fields-list' are inserted.

*** mh-default-folder-for-message-function

Function to select a default folder for refiling or `Fcc'.

*** mh-forward-hook

Invoked on the forwarded letter by "f (mh-forward)".

*** mh-invisible-header-fields-default

List of hidden header fields. The header fields listed in this option
are hidden, although you can check off any field that you would like
to see. Header fields that you would like to hide that aren't listed
can be added to the `mh-invisible-header-fields' option (closes SF
#752045).

The option `mh-visible-header-fields' has been deleted.

*** mh-junk-background

If on, spam programs are run in background. This used to be the
default behavior but this could overwhelm a system if many messages
were black- or whitelisted at once. The spam programs are now run in
the foreground, but this option can be used to put them back in the
background.

*** mh-signature-separator-flag

Non-nil means a signature separator should be inserted. It is not
recommended that you change this option since various mail user
agents, including MH-E, use the separator to present the signature
differently, and to suppress the signature when replying or yanking a
letter into a draft.

*** mh-variant

Specifies the variant used by MH-E. The default setting of this option
is `Auto-detect' which means that MH-E will automatically choose the
first of nmh, MH, or GNU mailutils that it finds in the directories
listed in `mh-path', `mh-sys-path', and `exec-path'. If, for example,
you have both nmh and mailutils installed and `mh-variant-in-use' was
initialized to nmh but you want to use mailutils, then you can set
this option to `mailutils'.

When this variable is changed, MH-E resets `mh-progs', `mh-lib',
`mh-lib-progs', `mh-flists-present-flag', and `mh-variant-in-use'
accordingly.

If you've set these variables in your .emacs, it is strongly suggested
that you comment them out. The MH detection code has been completely
rewritten and it is very likely that you no longer to set them and
their setting may confuse other MH-E settings.

** Variables Deleted in MH-E

Variables that have been removed from MH-E that have not been
discussed elsewhere are listed here.

*** mh-alias-system-aliases

System definitions should not be a user option.

*** mh-junk-mail-folder

Since this variable can accept values other than folder names, it was
renamed to `mh-junk-disposition' to more accurately reflect the content.

** Bug Fixes in MH-E 7.4.80

Many bugs were fixed in this version that aren't listed below.

*** mh-extract-rejected-mail Can't Do MIME (and Other Formats)

Now handles qmail and exim bounces (addresses SF #404965).

*** mh-rmail Hangs in XEmacs

We've determined that MH-E is incompatible with some versions of
XEmacs (21.5.9-21.5.16). More recent versions work fine. If you think
our list is too broad, please let us know which version of XEmacs you
are using (closes SF #644321).

*** Inconsistent Prompts

Prompt formats are now consistent throughout the application (closes
SF #730470).

*** Empty Shell Comments Confuse mh-mhn-directive-present-p

If you had a string that matched the regexp "^# $" in your draft, it
would cause an error. This has been fixed (closes SF #762458).

*** Quote Hashes When mhbuild Directives Used

A related bug, if you had empty shell comments but inserted your own
directives, you'd get another error from mhbuild. This has been fixed
by quoting the hash ("^# $") like this "##" before submitting to
mhbuild (closes SF #762464).

*** Inconsistent Usage in Scan Formatting Variables

The variables:

    mh-note-cur
    mh-note-deleted
    mh-note-dist
    mh-note-forw
    mh-note-refiled
    mh-note-repl
    mh-note-seq

used to contain strings. Although only the first character was read,
the entire string would be inserted which may have caused problems.
These variables have been converted to character constants so that
only a single character can be inserted into the scan line (closes SF
#770772).

*** Bad Handling of Aliases That Conflict With Local User Names

If a user name existed both locally and in the aliases file, the local
user would be flashed, but the alias would be used when sending. This
has been fixed so that the user name that is flashed is the same as
the name that is sent (closes SF #772595).

*** Args out of range

In rare and non-reproducible circumstances, compilation sometimes
threw an "Args out of range" error. Nonetheless, this has been fixed
(closes SF #806577).

*** mh-forward hard-codes '-mime' Switch on nmh

Added new option `mh-compose-forward-as-mime-flag' that controls whether
messages are forwarded as MIME attachments (closes SF #827203).

*** Not Re-prompted to Sign After Pass Phrase Typo

If there were errors when sending a signed message (like getting the
pass phrase wrong), the MML markup remained in the draft buffer. The
draft buffer is now restored if there is an error (closes SF #839303).

*** Font-lock Gets Confused in MH-Letter Buffer

If a user manually moved the cursor to the end of the header field
separator line (by mouse click or keyboard navigation) and hit Enter
to start typing their message, any line in the body with a colon would
be fontified with a gray background. This has been fixed (closes SF
#855479).

*** mh-refile-msg Fails to Suggest Folder for Empty Message

If you received a message with an empty body from someone who is
listed in your aliases file, "o (mh-refile-msg)" failed to suggest the
correct folder. This has been fixed (closes SF #917096).

*** Error Visiting Folder With no Unseen Messages

If you visited a folder without unseen messages and the option "flist:
-noshowzero" is present in your ~/.mh_profile, you'd get an error. This
has been fixed (closes SF #933954).



* Changes in MH-E 7.4.4

Version 7.4.4 addresses programmatic issues from the FSF and prepares
MH-E for inclusion into an impending GNU Emacs release (22.1). There
are no user-visible changes (unless you are using XEmacs on DOS or
don't have the cl package installed). Filenames are now unique in
their first 8 characters (DOS 8.3 requirement). The runtime dependency
on the cl package has been removed. Desktop saving and restoration
code moved here from desktop.el.

* Changes in MH-E 7.4.3

Version 7.4.3 fixes the problem where `mh-identity-list' was not getting
set from .emacs.

* Changes in MH-E 7.4.2

Version 7.4.2 fixes the accidental dependence on nmh (closes SF
#791021).

* Changes in MH-E 7.4.1

Version 7.4.1 fixes the Makefile so it no longer tries to compile
mh-unit.el.

* Changes in MH-E 7.4

Version 7.4 contains many new useful features including arbitrary MH
range handling, new draft features such as draft form editing, as well
as sequence propagation and manipulation. We've also fixed bugs and
added a handful of new variables.

** New Features in MH-E 7.4

*** Add Arbitrary Ranges to MH-E UI

MH-E now handles any legal MH range (such as last:5 or 4 8 10-12)
wherever you're prompted for a message number or sequence (closes SF
#728638).

*** Remove Prompting in mh-send

Brian Reid's original mhe didn't do prompting anywhere but used forms
instead. While we won't go that far, we eliminated prompting where a
form is already involved, such as in composing a message.

The new customization variable `mh-compose-prompt-flag' can be set to
t to get the original behavior (closes SF #745622).

*** Use TAB to Switch Fields in Header

When composing a message, TAB and SHIFT-TAB can be used to move
quickly between header fields. The new customization variable,
`mh-compose-skipped-header-fields', contains a list of header fields
that are skipped and truncated if they are too long (closes SF
#745627).

*** Alias Completion in Composition Buffer

Aliases can be completed in the draft with "M-TAB
(mh-letter-complete)". Or, if the customization variable
`mh-compose-space-does-completion-flag' is set to t, then a "SPC
(mh-letter-complete-or-space)" with do the same thing. If
`mh-alias-flash-on-comma' is non-nil, ", (mh-letter-confirm-address)"
will show the alias expansion in the minibuffer (closes SF #745634).

*** Auto Fields Should be Inserted During Send

Fields that were inserted by the multiple personality code when the
draft was sent now insert the header fields when the draft is composed
to give you a chance to edit them (closes SF #747890).

*** mh-index-tick-messages

The command "F ' (mh-index-ticked-messages)" creates a buffer with all
messages ticked with "' (mh-toggle-tick)" in the folders listed in the
new customization variable `mh-index-ticked-messages-folders'. Chances
are that if you set `mh-index-new-messages-folders', you'll want to
set `mh-index-ticked-messages-folders' accordingly.

In addition, a general function, "F q (mh-index-sequenced-messages)"
has been provided that displays messages in the `mh-unseen-seq' in the
folders listed `mh-index-new-messages-folders', unless a prefix
argument is given, in which case you can provide both a list of
folders and a sequence (closes SF #718833).

*** Narrow to Region

If there is a region, "/ r (mh-narrow-to-range)" will only consider
those messages in the region. In addition, there is now a stack of
folder limits which can be popped with "/ w (mh-widen)". With a prefix
arg, all the restrictions are popped off of the stack (closes SF
#732823).

*** Narrow to Ticked Sequence

The buffer can now be narrowed to ticked messages with "S '
(mh-narrow-to-tick)" (closes SF #732825).

*** Display Multiple Buttons for multipart/alternative

A new customizable variable,
`mh-display-buttons-for-alternatives-flag', was added to display
buttons for the alternatives. The default value is nil to retain the
current behavior (closes SF #741288).

*** Identity Menu Changes

A menu item has been added that inserts custom fields if the To or Cc
header fields match `mh-auto-fields-list'.

** New Variables in MH-E 7.4

*** mh-alias-local-users-prefix

This string is prepended to the real names of users from the passwd
file. If nil, use the username string unmodified instead of the real
name from the gecos field of the passwd file.

*** mh-alias-passwd-gecos-comma-separator-flag

Non-nil means the gecos field in the passwd file uses comma as a
separator. Used to construct aliases for users in the passwd file."

*** mh-interpret-number-as-range-flag

Non-nil means interpret a number as a range. If the variable is
non-nil, and you use an integer, N, when asked for a range to scan,
then MH-E uses the range "last:N".

*** mh-kill-folder-suppress-prompt-hook

This new hook is invoked at the beginning of the `F k
(mh-kill-folder)' command. It is a list of functions to be called,
with no arguments, which should return a value of non-nil if you
should not be asked if you're sure that you want to remove the folder.
This is useful for folders that are easily regenerated.

The default value of `mh-index-p' suppresses the prompt on folders
generated by an index search.

WARNING: Use this hook with care. If there is a bug in your hook which
returns t on +inbox and you hit `F k' by accident in the +inbox
buffer, you will not be happy.

*** mh-refile-preserves-sequences-flag

Non-nil means that sequences are preserved when messages are refiled.
If this variable is non-nil and a message belonging to a sequence
other than cur or Previous-Sequence (see mh-profile 5) is refiled then
it is put in the same sequence in the destination folder. Additional
sequences that should not to be preserved can be specified by setting
`mh-unpropagated-sequences' appropriately.

*** mh-visible-header-fields

Customize this instead of `mh-visible-headers', which is now a defvar.
This was done to mimic the relationship between
`mh-invisible-header-fields' and `mh-invisible-fields'.

** Variables Deleted in MH-E 7.4

*** mh-visible-headers

See the paragraph for `mh-visible-header-fields' above.

** Bug Fixes in MH-E 7.4

*** Aliases Constantly Reloaded

The system aliases are not loaded as often as they were, so the
completion speed has been dramatically improved if your passwd file is
large (closes SF #693859).

*** Folders in MH-Index View Not Saved

When you perform a search to produce an MH-Index buffer, the folders
that contain the messages are shown. If the MH-Index buffer was
deleted, or Emacs was restarted and the corresponding folder
rescanned, the folder information would be lost. This has been fixed
by saving the information in a file called ".mhe_index" (closes SF
#701762).

*** Ticking Messages in +mhe-index/new

If a new message in a buffer created by "F n" was ticked (with "'"),
the message would not be added to the tick sequence in the source
folder. This has been fixed so that any sequence changes in any index
folder (from within MH-E of course) are now reflected back to the
corresponding source folder (closes SF #709664).

*** Custom Vars Set by a Function

The default setting of customization variable `mh-summary-height' is
now `nil' which means MH-E will change the size dynamically according
to the size of the frame (closes SF #723267).

*** Folder Completion Slow

The first folder completion was very slow. This has been fixed (closes
SF #730426).

*** Tick Sequence Persistent When Refiled

Sequences are now preserved when messages are refiled (closes SF
#737128).

*** Auto-inserted Header Fields Inconsistent

For consistency, all automatically inserted header fields (such as
X-Mailer and X-Face) are added when the draft is first presented to
you. This also gives you a chance to edit or delete them if necessary
(closes SF #745624). Note that we would be distressed if you deleted
the X-Mailer field.

*** Toolbar Spec Error

The following message appeared when displaying a message in XEmacs:

  Signaling: (error "Toolbar spec must be list or nil" )

This has been fixed (closes SF #745655).

*** mh-index-search Doesn't Find Short Acronyms

Swish typically ignores words with fewer than four letters, but will
still look for acronyms. Unfortunately, MH-E was downcasing the input
words which defeated this feature. This has been fixed (closes SF
#755718).



* Changes in MH-E 7.3

This release includes the new features of an index view of unseen
messages in all folders, spam software support, relative folder
specification @ support, marking messages, recipient handling by
mh-default-folder-list, Face and X-Image-URL header field support, and
Fcc completion. Function arguments have been unified. Bugs have been
fixed.

** New Features in MH-E 7.3

*** Unified Function Arguments

Any function with MSG-OR-SEQ in its docstring uses the displayed
message by default for this argument. However, if a prefix argument is
provided, then the user is prompted for a message sequence. If the
variable `transient-mark-mode' is non-nil and the mark is active, then
the function operates on the messages in the selected region. In a
program, MSG-OR-SEQ can be a message number, a list of message
numbers, a region in a cons cell, or a sequence.

*** MH-Index View of Unseen Messages

Use "F n (mh-index-new-messages)" or Folder -> View New Messages menu
item to display messages in the `mh-unseen-seq' sequence in folders
specified by `mh-index-new-messages-folders'. With a prefix argument,
enter a space-separated list of folders, or nothing to search all
folders.

Like other MH-Index folders, use "v (mh-index-visit-folder)" if you
wish to visit the original folder with the unseen message. This is
usually not necessary since the original message is annotated if you
reply, deleted if you delete the message, or refiled if you refile the
message (closes SF #701756).

*** Spam Software Support

MH-E now supports several spam filters including Bogofilter,
SpamProbe, and SpamAssassin. Spam that is mistakenly considered to be
good mail can be reclassified as spam with "J b (mh-junk-blacklist)".
Conversely, good mail that is accidently considered to be spam can be
reclassified with "J w (mh-junk-whitelist)" (closes SF #669518).

If a message is blacklisted, and `mh-junk-mail-folder' is a string,
then the message is refiled to that folder. If this variable is nil,
the message is deleted. If a message is whitelisted, then the message
is refiled to `mh-inbox'.

To change the spam program being used, customize `mh-junk-program'.
This should only be necessary if you have multiple filters on your
system and MH-E picked the wrong one. These customization variables
are found in the new customization group `mh-junk'.

The documentation for the following functions describes what setup is
needed for the different spam fighting programs:

  - `mh-bogofilter-blacklist'
  - `mh-spamprobe-blacklist'
  - `mh-spamassassin-blacklist'

*** Relative Folder Specification @ Supported

You can now use the relative folder marker @ in folder names (closes
SF #666774).

*** Marking Messages

Messages can now be highlighted with "' (mh-toggle-tick)", Sequence ->
Toggle Tick Mark menu item or the "Toggle tick mark" button. These
messages are added to the "tick" sequence, although this sequence can
be changed in `mh-tick-seq'. The highlighting effect can be modified
by customizing `mh-folder-tick-face' (closes SF #623367).

There is also a new keybinding "/ ' (mh-narrow-to-tick)" and menu item
Sequence -> Narrow to Tick Sequence to narrow the view to the
highlighted messages.

*** mh-default-folder-list Now Takes Recipients

If you wish to file a message based upon the recipient of a message
(such as a mailing list), you can now indicate that when filling out
the address in the `mh-default-folder-list' customization variable.

*** Face Header Field Supported

In addition to the X-Face header field, the Face header field, which
can display color images, is now supported. As a bonus, the external
xface-e21 library is no longer required.

*** X-Image-URL Support

Images specified in X-Image-URL header fields are now supported.
See the customization variable `mh-fetch-x-image-url' to enable this
support.

*** Fcc Completion

Folders in Fcc fields in message drafts can now be completed with
M-TAB.

** New Variables in MH-E 7.3

Variables that have been added to MH-E that have not been discussed
elsewhere are listed here.

*** mh-auto-fields-list

Alist of addresses for which header lines are automatically inserted.
When a regular expression matches in the To or cc fields of a message,
the corresponding header field is automatically inserted in the
message header. It also allows the automatic setting of an identity
(using `mh-insert-identity') to set an alternate identity when sending
messages to a certain person or mailing list.

Since this is a more general use of `mh-insert-mail-followup-to-flag'
and `mh-insert-mail-followup-to-list', these variables have been removed.

*** mh-show-xface-face

Face for displaying the X-Face image.

*** mh-xemacs-toolbar-position

This customization variable allows the user to place the toolbar on
the four edges of the frame.

*** mh-xemacs-use-toolbar-flag

This customization variable is used to enable or disable the toolbar
under XEmacs.

** Variables Deleted in MH-E 7.3

Variables that have been removed from MH-E that have not been
discussed elsewhere are listed here.

*** mh-decode-content-transfer-encoded-message-flag

No longer needed since the external program mimencode is no longer
used.

*** mh-index-show-hook

This hook was never used, so it was removed.

*** mh-tool-bar-reply-3-buttons-flag

Obsolete. This functionality is present `mh-tool-bar-folder-buttons'.

** Bug Fixes in MH-E 7.3

*** Can't Refile Message

Messages with invalid addresses were causing errors in ali which
prevented the refiling of messages. The ali error is now shown in the
"*MH-E Log*" buffer and refiling suggests the last folder used (closes
SF #680388).

*** Empty Body Triggers Duped Header

If the body was empty the header would be treated like the body and
was therefore displayed twice. This has been fixed (closes SF
#681162).

*** mml or mhl Directives Not Always Processed

The mml and mhl directives used to create body parts were not
processed if one re-edited a draft, or if they added the directives
manually. The directives are now always processed upon sending the
letter. You may still, of course, use "C-c C-m m (mh-mml-to-mime)" or
"C-c C-e (mh-edit-mhn)" to manually create the MIME body parts from
the directives and then send the draft.

*** mh-alias-grab-from-field Fails

MH-E was adding aliases with angle brackets around the address when
there wasn't a phrase (usually, the user's name), to go with it. This
caused ali to fail which caused problems in MH-E. This is probably a
bug in ali, but MH-E no longer inserts angle brackets around the
address unless there is a phrase, which avoids the problem (closes SF
#690216).

*** XEmacs Fixes

MH-E is now fully supported under XEmacs and compiles without any
warnings.

In particular, the following now work under XEmacs:

- X-Face, Face, and X-Image-URL header fields
- MH-E logo in mode line
- Emphasis (bold, italics, etc.)
- Smilies
- Toolbar

*** Indexed Folders Should Respect mh-show-threads-flag

Indexed folders are now threaded if `mh-show-threads-flag' is non-nil
(closes SF #709667).

*** Threading Index View Loses Folder Info

This has been fixed (closes SF #709672).

*** No Undo Information When Re-editing Drafts

Undo is turned on in the draft buffer when using "e (mh-edit-again)"
(closes SF #712777).

*** Forwarded base64-encoded Messages Are Incorrectly Displayed

This has been fixed (closes SF #681518).

*** Append to *MH-E Log* Buffer

The last 100 lines of log messages are kept in the *MH-E Log* buffer.
Previously, the buffer was erased every time it was written (closes SF
#685476). In addition, many of the MH-E commands now send their output
into this buffer instead of a plethora of other special-purpose
buffers.

*** mh-inc-folder Complains if No Mail and No Current Message

The function `mh-inc-folder' no longer calls `mh-show' if point is not
on a valid scan line. This keeps `mh-inc-folder' from complaining
(closes SF #678115).

*** Folder Normalization Strips Leading Slash

Leading "/" characters in folder names entered by the user were being
lost. This has been fixed (closes SF #676890).

*** Print Header Doesn't Show Message

When printing a sequence, the header simply indicated that a sequence,
but not which one, was being printed and did not show the message
number. This has been fixed. If more than one message is printed, a
page of the scan lines is printed and its header indicates the
sequence or message range. The pages with the actual messages all set
the header to the folder and message displayed on that page.

*** Aliases Constantly Reloaded

Empty lists are now handled properly (closes SF #693859).

*** Remove RCS Keywords

Removed RCS keywords per Emacs conventions (closes SF #680731).

*** Replace Mimencode

MH-E was enhanced to decode message based on charset and
Content-Transfer-Encoding. This eliminates the need for the external
program mimencode (closes SF #674857).



* Changes in MH-E 7.2

This release includes the new features of filing hints, hierarchical
file name completion, indexed search and pick integration, unification
between `mh-visit-folder' and the speedbar, a displayed message


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