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* Changes in MH-E 7.95

Version 7.95, the second 8.0 release candidate, fixes a single bug.
It would be good to check this version ASAP since the Emacs pretest is
coming in days: if no showstopper problems are found in this version
it will be promoted to 8.0 before the pretest. Thanks for your help!

** Bug Fixes in MH-E 7.95

*** Folder Completion Fails in fcc: Field

This has been fixed (closes SF #1476270).

* Changes in MH-E 7.94

Version 7.94, the first 8.0 release candidate, fixes a bunch of bugs,
incorporates new features introduced in Emacs 22.1, improves folder
completion, and spruces up the tool bar.

** New Features in MH-E 7.94

*** Add :package-version Keyword to Options

This `defcustom', `defgroup', and `defface' keyword was introduced in
Emacs 22.1. MH-E has been extended to take advantage of it. With this
keyword, you can now use `M-x customize-changed-options' to see what
options in MH-E have changed between versions of Emacs. In a future
version of Emacs, you'll be able to see changes between MH-E versions
as well (closes SF #1452724).

** Bug Fixes in MH-E 7.94

*** mhparam -components Fails on mailutils

This error prevented MH-E from loading when using GNU mailutils. GNU
mailutils drops the `s' in this argument, so we did too since
-component still works in nmh and MH (closes SF #1446985).

*** "/ s" Still Has Problems With []'d Mail

On XEmacs, subjects that had special characters would prevent `/ s'
from narrowing to the given subject. These characters are now quoted
correctly in XEmacs (closes SF #1447598).

*** Incorrect Example in mh-folder-list Docstring

This has been fixed (closes SF #1448498).

*** Variable mh-send-args Is a String, Not a List

This was causing errors when sending under GNU mailutils. The internal
variable `mh-send-args' is now a list which fixes the problem (closes
SF #1448604).

*** Update Icons

Most of the tool bar icons have been replaced by GTK or GNOME 2 icons
(closes SF #1452715).

*** Can't customize tool bar for current session

If you customized `mh-tool-bar-folder-buttons' or
`mh-tool-bar-letter-buttons', and clicked Set for Current Session, the
tool bar was not updated. This has been fixed (closes SF #1452718).

*** Strip Build Number From emacs-version in X-Mailer

This has been done (closes SF #1466481).

*** mh-folder-completion-function Problems

One could not longer browse folders outside of the standard MH Mail
directory. This has been fixed. As a beneficial side-effect, you can
once again use SPC to complete folders (closes SF #1470518).

*** Rename Function and Variable Definers

If you had ever shown help for an MH-E symbol that was both a function
or variable, you might have found that the hyperlink to the file

If you had used `C-c TAB' (`mh-insert-letter') to insert a letter into
your draft, specified a different folder, and chose the default
message number, you got the wrong message. This has been fixed (closes
SF #1473729).

*** "echo -e" in Makefile Causes Solaris 10 Problem

This construct has been replaced with printf, which is reputed to be
more portable (closes SF #1467222, #1473908).

* Changes in MH-E 7.93

Version 7.93, the fourth 8.0 beta release, fixes a handful of bugs in
searching and limiting exposed during continued beta testing.

** Variables Deleted in MH-E 7.93

*** mh-show-use-goto-addr-flag

This flag was redundant and inconsistent with
`goto-address-highlight-p' at the same time, so we removed it. Please
customize `goto-address-highlight-p' if you wish to turn off email
address and URL highlighting.

** Bug Fixes in MH-E 7.93

*** `/ s' Can Miss the Original Mail

The command `/ s' failed to include the message with the "Re:" in the
Subject. This has been fixed (closes SF #1438369).

*** XEmacs -nw Fails with number-char-or-marker-p Error

Hopefully, this is the last we'll hear of problems associated with
XEmacs' incompatible `device-color-cells' function (closes SF
#1436924).

*** Pick-based Searches Fail

The command `C-c C-p' failed to find any matches. This has been fixed
(closes SF #1435381).

*** Can't Narrow to Subject with Regexp Chars

The command `/ s' could not limit subjects that had special pick
characters (such as [, *, $, .). This has been fixed (closes SF
#1432548).



* Changes in MH-E 7.92

Version 7.92, the third 8.0 beta release, removes the "sed -i" in the
Makefile (SF #1432060), tunes the setting of `mh-image-load-path',
works around systems that do not have face inheritance, fixes several
issues with searching on XEmacs, and creates the correct MIME type
when including OpenOffice documents.

* Changes in MH-E 7.91

Version 7.91 is the second 8.0 beta release and fixes several bugs
that were uncovered in wider testing.

* Changes in MH-E 7.90

Version 7.90 is the first 8.0 beta release and is a release that has
finally broken away from some unfortunate legacy decisions in favor of
something that will be easier to use and support. Many bugs were fixed
and many features were added, including making the pick search
equivalent to the other types of searches.

The rewrite of the manual accelerated dramatically in recent months
and drove the changes in this release. In order to make the
manual--and hence the software--better, clearer, more consistent, more
predictable, and easier to understand, many variables and functions
were renamed. The changes to the user-visible variables are listed
here. It is our hope that you, dear MH-E user, will embrace the
changes for the better and forgive us from making so many incompatible
changes.

If you use undocumented functionality, be sure to read the ChangeLog
for changes that might affect you.

** New Features in MH-E 7.90

*** Entry Points Have Moved

Emacs 21 users must now add `(require 'mh-autoloads)' because the
entry points (such as `mh-rmail' and `mh-smail') have moved to
different files which have made the autoloads that come with Emacs
inaccurate. This change was necessary because the code was reorganized
to remove circular dependencies, to make the code more stable and
maintainable, and to reduce the time to load MH-E.

*** MH-E No Longer Calls install-mh

The new variant detection code makes use of `mhparam' which assumes
that your MH environment has already been set up. The code to call
`install-mh', which could no longer be run anyway, was removed.

*** Use run-hook-with-args

We use normal hooks whenever possible and do not use
`run-hook-with-args' (with one documented exception) (closes SF
#643702).

*** Merge mh-index.el and mh-pick.el

We merged `mh-index.el' and `mh-pick.el' into a new file
`mh-search.el'. As part of this process, the old `F s' behavior of
adding messages to the search sequence has been removed. The `F i'
keybinding was then renamed to `F s' (`mh-search'). The mode of the
search-pattern buffer was renamed from MH-Pick to MH-Search. Within
the MH-Search buffer, the command `C-c C-p' (`mh-pick-do-search') now
runs pick on the given folder recursively and displays the results in
a search folder like the other search methods (closes SF #829207).

*** Improve Security of mh-fetch-x-image-url

The default has been changed to "Never Fetch." Those of you who like
the value of "Ask Before Fetching" will have to customize this option
(closes SF #831278).

*** Remove Emacs 20 Support

As it turns out, we had already added some code that didn't work on
Emacs 20. However, now we've formalized it and removed code that was
present solely for Emacs 20 support (closes SF #1359240).

*** Derive mh-letter-mode from mail-mode

MH-Letter mode is now derived from `mail-mode'. We were able to delete
a lot of code. In return, there are a few `mail-mode' commands that
are available that may or may not be useful and the `mail-mode-hook'
is run (closes SF #1385571).

*** Add Choices to mh-to-field-choices

In MH-Letter mode, you can use the "C-c C-f (mh-to-field)" prefix to
go to and insert fields. The fields "Reply-To:", "Mail-Reply-To:",
"Mail-Followup-To:" can now be created via the "C-r", "C-a" (for
author), and "C-l" keys respectively. The key for the "From:" field
has been renamed from "C-r" to "C-m" for consistency with `mail-mode'
(closes SF #1400139).

*** MH-Folder Keymap Changes

The function `mh-ps-print-toggle-mime' was never implemented and the
functionality in `mh-ps-print-msg-show' was better afforded by
`mh-ps-print-msg' and `mh-ps-print-msg-file'.

Key          7.4.85                        7.4.90

F i          mh-index-search               -
F s          mh-search-folder              mh-search
P A          mh-ps-print-toggle-mime       -
P M          mh-ps-print-toggle-mime       -
P s          mh-ps-print-msg-show          -

*** MH-Letter Keymap Changes

The change where `mh-letter-mode' derives from `mail-mode' adds a few
keybindings. Some are interesting; experiment! Most of the changes
have to do with the renaming of the functions with "mhn" in them to
"mh" because nmh doesn't use `mhn'. The names were also made
consistent with the the family of "mml" functions.

Key          7.4.85                        7.4.90

C-c C-e      mh-edit-mhn                   mh-mh-to-mime
C-c C-f C-a  -                             mh-to-field
C-c C-f C-l  -                             mh-to-field
C-c C-f RET  -                             mh-to-field
C-c C-f a    -                             mh-to-field
C-c C-f l    -                             mh-to-field
C-c C-f m    -                             mh-to-field
C-c RET C-g  mh-mhn-compose-anon-ftp       mh-mh-compose-anon-ftp
C-c RET C-t  mh-mhn-compose-external-compressed-tar
                                           mh-mh-compose-external-compressed-tar
C-c RET C-u  mh-revert-mhn-edit            mh-mh-to-mime-undo
C-c RET C-x  mh-mhn-compose-external-type  mh-mh-compose-external-type
C-c RET g    mh-mhn-compose-anon-ftp       mh-mh-compose-anon-ftp
C-c RET t    mh-mhn-compose-external-compressed-tar
                                           mh-mh-compose-external-compressed-tar
C-c RET u    mh-revert-mhn-edit            mh-mh-to-mime-undo
C-c RET x    mh-mhn-compose-external-type  mh-mh-compose-external-type

*** MH-Search Keymap Changes

These are the changes associated with the new search mode. The command
`C-c C-c' (`mh-index-do-search') now performs the standard indexed
search, while `C-c C-p' (`mh-pick-do-search') runs pick as before,
only better!

Key          7.4.85                        7.4.90

C-c C-c      mh-do-search                  mh-index-do-search
C-c TAB      mh-index-do-search            -

** New Variables in MH-E 7.90

*** mh-after-commands-processed-hook

Hook run by `x' (`mh-execute-commands') after performing outstanding
refile and delete requests.

*** mh-before-commands-processed-hook

Renamed from `mh-folder-updated-hook'. It wasn't clear whether
`mh-folder-updated-hook' was run before or after the commands were
executed. We now provide both with clear names.

*** mh-highlight-citation-style

Renamed from `mh-highlight-citation-p' since it wasn't a boolean. The
new name is also more descriptive.

*** mh-insert-signature-hook

Renamed from `mh-letter-insert-signature-hook' since most of the other
hooks do not carry the mode in the prefix and because the new name is
equally clear.

*** mh-kill-folder-suppress-prompt-hooks

Renamed from `mh-kill-folder-suppress-prompt-hook'. By convention,
abnormal hooks, which this is, either have a -function or -hooks
suffix.

*** mh-mhl-format-file

Renamed from `mhl-formfile' to put it in the MH-E namespace and to be
consistent with other similar options.

*** mh-mh-to-mime-hook

Renamed from `mh-edit-mhn-hook'. We have a family of `mh-mml-to-mime'
functions and variables; the older mhn functions and variables were
renamed to have a consistent `mh-mh-to-mime' prefix.

*** mh-new-messages-folders

Renamed from `mh-index-new-messages-folders' for clarity.

*** mh-path

Additional list of directories to search for MH.

*** mh-redist-full-contents-flag

On means the `dist' command needs entire letter for redistribution.
This was previously a variable. It's now an option.

*** mh-search-mode-hook

Renamed from `mh-pick-mode-hook' as part of the
`mh-index.el'/`mh-pick.el' merge into `mh-search.el'.

*** mh-search-program

Renamed from `mh-index-program' as part of the
`mh-index.el'/`mh-pick.el' merge into `mh-search.el'.

*** mh-sortm-args

Additional arguments for `sortm'. This was previously an internal
variable. It's now an user-customizable option.

*** mh-speed-update-interval

Renamed from `mh-speed-flists-interval' for clarity.

*** mh-ticked-messages-folders

Renamed from `mh-index-ticked-messages-folders' for clarity.

*** mh-xemacs-tool-bar-position

Renamed from `mh-xemacs-toolbar-position' per GNU Emacs naming conventions.

*** mh-xemacs-use-tool-bar-flag

Renamed from `mh-xemacs-use-toolbar-flag' per GNU Emacs naming conventions.

*** mh-yank-behavior

Renamed from `mh-yank-from-start-of-msg' for clarity.

** Variables Deleted in MH-E 7.90

*** mail-citation-hook

This is already defined in `sendmail.el'.

*** mh-edit-mhn-hook

Renamed to `mh-mh-to-mime-hook'.

*** mh-folder-updated-hook

Renamed to `mh-before-commands-processed-hook'.

*** mh-highlight-citation-p

Renamed to `mh-highlight-citation-style'.

*** mh-index-new-messages-folders

Renamed to `mh-new-messages-folders'.

*** mh-index-program

Renamed to `mh-search-program'.

*** mh-index-ticked-messages-folders

Renamed to `mh-ticked-messages-folders'.

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

Renamed to `mh-kill-folder-suppress-prompt-hooks'.

*** mh-letter-insert-signature-hook

Renamed to `mh-insert-signature-hook'.

*** mhl-formfile

Renamed to `mh-mhl-format-file'.

*** mh-pick-mode-hook

Renamed to `mh-search-mode-hook'.

*** mh-speed-flists-interval

Renamed to `mh-speed-update-interval'.

*** mh-speed-run-flists-flag

Deleted since setting `mh-speed-flists-interval' to 0 accomplishes the
same thing.

*** mh-xemacs-toolbar-position

Renamed to `mh-xemacs-tool-bar-position'.

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

Renamed to `mh-xemacs-use-tool-bar-flag'.

*** mh-yank-from-start-of-msg

Renamed to `mh-yank-behavior'.

** Bug Fixes in MH-E 7.90

*** Error Message When Trying to Send Using MH-E

This behavior is no longer observed (closes SF #1002103).

*** "Args out of range" Error in Displaying Message

This behavior is no longer observed (closes SF #1227504).

*** Front-and-back Truncation in mailto: Rendering

This behavior is no longer observed (closes SF #1227510).

*** Completions Offered by mh-refile-message Are Not Sorted

This behavior is no longer observed (closes SF #698734).

*** Add Message-ID to Outgoing Messages

If you replied to a message in your `+outbox', an `In-Reply-To:'
header field was created that broke threading at the recipient's end.
We now add a `Message-ID:' to outgoing messages which fixes this
(closes SF #725425).

*** Speedbar Creating New Folders Instead of Visiting Existing 

This was actually fixed in 7.4.3 (closes SF #792300).

*** Args Out of Range

This compilation error was actually fixed in 7.4.3 (closes SF
#806577).

*** Initialization Fails If ~/Mail Exists

MH-E no longer calls `install-mh' so this issue has gone away (closes
SF #835192).

*** RETURN Causes Infinite Loop in mh-letter

This behavior is no longer observed (closes SF #887346).

*** Missing Headers When Replying to All

User needed to edit `replgroupcomps' (closes SF #918194).

*** mh-find-path Doesn't Use mhparam

MH-E no longer peeks into the MH profile `~/.mh_profile' directly. It
uses `mhparam' instead (closes SF #1016027).

*** mh-index-previous-folder Does Not Work Correctly

If your cursor was on an item below a folder heading and you used
`M-TAB' (`mh-index-previous-folder'), you would move to the previous
folder heading. This has been fixed (closes SF #1126188).

*** XEmacs Compile Fails

Compiling produced a "Symbol's value as variable is void: require"
error on all files. This has been fixed. As a bonus, warnings have
been reduced from hundreds to just a few (closes SF #1127595).

*** buffer-offer-save Permanent Local

There was a movement to make `buffer-offer-save' a permanent local
which would have meant that we could not set it in `mh-letter-mode'.
However, this movement was fraught with issues and was postponed
(closes SF #1184756).

*** Better Handling of Empty cur Sequence

If you refiled a message into a folder and then used `F r'
(`mh-rescan-folder') in that folder, your cursor would be taken to the
first message. The cursor now stays where it was (closes SF #1207247).

*** Name of the Draft File in mh-comp.el

MH is documented to use the draft file. If you use a draft file for
something else (like Sylpheed), then use draft folders (closes SF
#1231483).

*** Use Standard Default Notation in Prompts

Emacs changed their defaults in prompts from "Prompt: [value]" to
"Prompt (default value): ". All MH-E prompts have been updated to
comply with the new standard (closes SF #1275933).

*** Msg Display Broken After Displaying Msg with Inline Image

Messages with inline images no longer trim certain message header
fields (closes SF #1306141).

*** mh-visit-folder Munges font-lock-keywords

MH-E broke highlighting in Gnus buffers. This was actually a problem
in CVS Emacs 22 and has been fixed there (closes SF #1393879).

*** Illegal Filename Chars for W32 Filesystems

Windows users who view `X-Image-URL:' images could not cache the
images since the cached image file names had illegal characters. This
has been fixed (closes SF #1396499).

*** mh-send Doesn't Handle mml Insertions Via mail-user-agent

Can now forward messages in Gnus if MH-E is your `mail-user-agent'
(closes SF #1399307).



* 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 7.4.80

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

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* Changes in MH-E 8.0

Version 8.0 supports GNU mailutils, S/MIME, picons, which-func-mode,
sports an improved interface for hiding header fields, improves upon
the MH variant detection, improves folder completion, makes the pick
search equivalent to the other types of searches, spruces up the tool
bar, creates the correct MIME type when including OpenOffice
documents, works on a Mac, adds colors to buttons for signed or
encrypted messages, incorporates new features introduced in
Emacs 22.1, fixes a bunch of bugs, and best of all, comes with an
updated manual!

Internally, MH-E now sports a new software organization which will
help future maintainability. As a side-effect, the number of XEmacs
compilation warnings has plummeted from hundreds to just three. CVS
users will notice that MH-E has been migrated from the CVS repository
from SourceForge to Savannah (but only for those files that were
already part of Emacs). As a result, the location of MH-E in the
load-path has changed, and mh-e-autoloads.el was renamed to
mh-autoloads.el. See section INSTALL in the README for details. 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.

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

If you want to see the release notes for the alpha and beta releases
leading up this release, please see:

  http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/emacs/etc/MH-E-NEWS?rev=1.25&root=emacs&view=markup



** New Features in MH-E 8.0

*** 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.

*** Catchup Command

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

*** 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).

*** 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).

*** Search Unification

The old `F s' behavior of adding messages to the search sequence has
been removed. The `F i' keybinding was deprecated and the new `F s'
(`mh-search') command is used to initiate either indexed or pick
searches. Within the MH-Search buffer (renamed from MH-Pick), the
command `C-c C-p' (`mh-pick-do-search') now runs pick on the given
folder recursively and displays the results in a search folder like
the other search methods (closes SF #829207).

*** Entry Points Have Moved

Emacs 21 users must now add `(require 'mh-autoloads)' because the
entry points (such as `mh-rmail' and `mh-smail') have moved to
different files which have made the autoloads that come with Emacs
inaccurate. This change was necessary because the code was reorganized
to remove circular dependencies, to make the code more stable and
maintainable, and to reduce the time to load MH-E.

*** MH-Folder Keymap Changes

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' although
we suggest you use the new `P p' instead.

Key          7.4.4                         8.0

;            -                             mh-toggle-mh-decode-mime-flag
l            mh-print-msg                  -
/ f          mh-narrow-to-from             -
/ r          mh-narrow-to-range            -
/ g          -                             mh-narrow-to-range
/ m          -                             mh-narrow-to-from
F c          -                             mh-catchup
F i          mh-index-search               -
F s          mh-search-folder              mh-search
K e          -                             mh-display-with-external-viewer
K t          -                             mh-toggle-mime-buttons
P ?          -                             mh-prefix-help
P C          -                             mh-ps-print-toggle-color
P F          -                             mh-ps-print-toggle-faces
P f          -                             mh-ps-print-msg-file
P l          -                             mh-print-msg
P p          -                             mh-ps-print-msg

*** MH-Letter Keymap Changes

The change where `mh-letter-mode' derives from `mail-mode' adds a few
keybindings. Some are interesting: experiment! Only the keybinding
changes for MH-E functions are listed here.

Most of the changes have to do with the renaming of the functions with
"mhn" in them to "mh" because nmh doesn't use `mhn'. The names were
also made consistent with the the family of "mml" functions.

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                         8.0

C-c C-e      mh-edit-mhn                   mh-mh-to-mime
C-c RET C-e  mh-mml-secure-message-encrypt-pgpmime
                                           mh-mml-secure-message-encrypt
C-c RET C-g  -                             mh-mh-compose-anon-ftp
C-c RET C-n  -                             mh-mml-unsecure-message
C-c RET C-s  mh-mml-secure-message-sign-pgpmime
                                           mh-mml-secure-message-sign
C-c RET C-t  -                             mh-mh-compose-external-compressed-tar
C-c RET C-u  mh-revert-mhn-edit            mh-mh-to-mime-undo
C-c RET C-x  -                             mh-mh-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-mh-compose-anon-ftp
C-c RET n    -                             mh-mml-unsecure-message
C-c RET s    -                             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-mh-compose-external-compressed-tar
C-c RET u    mh-revert-mhn-edit            mh-mh-to-mime-undo
C-c RET x    -                             mh-mh-compose-external-type

C-c C-f C-a  -                             mh-to-field
C-c C-f C-l  -                             mh-to-field
C-c C-f RET  -                             mh-to-field
C-c C-f a    -                             mh-to-field
C-c C-f l    -                             mh-to-field
C-c C-f m    -                             mh-to-field

*** MH-Search Keymap Changes

These are the changes associated with the new search mode. The command
`C-c C-c' (`mh-index-do-search') now performs the standard indexed
search, while `C-c C-p' (`mh-pick-do-search') runs pick as before,
only better!

The `mh-to-field' keybindings were adjusted to be consistent with
those in the MH-Letter mode.

Key          7.4.4                         8.0

C-c C-c      mh-do-search                  mh-index-do-search
C-c C-f C-d  mh-to-field                   -
C-c C-f C-f  mh-to-field                   -
C-c C-f C-r  mh-to-field                   -
C-c C-f RET  -                             mh-to-field
C-c C-f d    mh-to-field                   -
C-c C-f f    mh-to-field                   -
C-c C-f m    -                             mh-to-field
C-c C-f r    mh-to-field                   -
C-c TAB      mh-index-do-search            -

*** Updates to X-Image-URL

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.

The default of `mh-fetch-x-image-url' has been changed to "Never
Fetch." Those of you who like the value of "Ask Before Fetching" will
have to customize this option (closes SF #831278).

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).

*** Updates to Speedbar

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

*** Updates to mh-msg-is-in-seq

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

*** Updates to mh-to-field-choices

In MH-Letter mode, you can use the `C-c C-f' (`mh-to-field') prefix to
go to and insert fields. The fields `Reply-To:', `Mail-Reply-To:',
`Mail-Followup-To:' can now be created via the `C-r', `C-a' (for
author), and `C-l' keys respectively. The key for the `From:' field
has been renamed from `C-r' to `C-m' for consistency with `mail-mode'
(closes SF #1400139).

*** 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).

*** MH-E No Longer Calls install-mh

The new variant detection code makes use of `mhparam' which assumes
that your MH environment has already been set up. The code to call
`install-mh', which could no longer be run anyway, was removed.

*** Add :package-version Keyword to Options

This `defcustom', `defgroup', and `defface' keyword was introduced in
Emacs 22.1. MH-E has been extended to take advantage of it. With this
keyword, you can now use `M-x customize-changed-options' to see what
options in MH-E have changed between versions of Emacs. In a future
version of Emacs, you'll be able to see changes between MH-E versions
as well (closes SF #1452724).

*** Render Signature and vCard in Italics

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

*** Derive mh-letter-mode from mail-mode

MH-Letter mode is now derived from `mail-mode'. We were able to delete
a lot of code. In return, there are a few `mail-mode' commands that
are available that may or may not be useful and the `mail-mode-hook'
is run (closes SF #1385571).

*** Remove Emacs 20 Support

As it turns out, we had already added some code that didn't work on
Emacs 20. However, now we've formalized it and removed code that was
present solely for Emacs 20 support (closes SF #1359240).

*** 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).

*** Use run-hook-with-args

We use normal hooks whenever possible and do not use
`run-hook-with-args' (with one documented exception) (closes SF
#643702).



** New Variables in MH-E 8.0

*** mh-after-commands-processed-hook

Hook run by `x' (`mh-execute-commands') after performing outstanding
refile and delete requests.

*** mh-alias-reloaded-hook

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

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

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

*** mh-before-commands-processed-hook

Renamed from `mh-folder-updated-hook'. It wasn't clear whether
`mh-folder-updated-hook' was run before or after the commands were
executed. We now provide both with clear names.

*** mh-compose-forward-as-mime-flag

On means that messages are forwarded as attachments (closes SF
#827203).

*** 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-highlight-citation-style

Renamed from `mh-highlight-citation-p' since it wasn't a boolean. The
new name is also more descriptive.

*** mh-identity-handlers

Handler functions for fields in `mh-identity-list'.

*** mh-insert-signature-hook

Renamed from `mh-letter-insert-signature-hook' since most of the other
hooks do not carry the mode in the prefix and because the new name is
equally clear.

*** 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-junk-disposition

Renamed from `mh-junk-mail-folder' since this variable can accept
values other than folder names.

*** mh-kill-folder-suppress-prompt-hooks

Renamed from `mh-kill-folder-suppress-prompt-hook'. By convention,
abnormal hooks, which this is, either have a -function or -hooks
suffix.

*** mh-mhl-format-file

Renamed from `mhl-formfile' to put it in the MH-E namespace and to be
consistent with other similar options.

*** mh-mh-to-mime-hook

Renamed from `mh-edit-mhn-hook'. We have a family of `mh-mml-to-mime'
functions and variables; the older mhn functions and variables were
renamed to have a consistent `mh-mh-to-mime' prefix.

*** mh-mml-method-default

Default method to use in security tags.

*** mh-new-messages-folders

Renamed from `mh-index-new-messages-folders' for clarity.

*** mh-path

Additional list of directories to search for MH.

*** mh-redist-full-contents-flag

On means the `dist' command needs entire letter for redistribution.
This was previously a variable. It's now an option.

*** mh-search-mode-hook

Renamed from `mh-pick-mode-hook' as part of the
`mh-index.el'/`mh-pick.el' merge into `mh-search.el'.

*** mh-search-program

Renamed from `mh-index-program' as part of the
`mh-index.el'/`mh-pick.el' merge into `mh-search.el'.

*** mh-signature-separator-flag

On 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-sortm-args

Additional arguments for `sortm'. This was previously an internal
variable. It's now an user-customizable option.

*** mh-speed-update-interval

Renamed from `mh-speed-flists-interval' for clarity.

*** mh-ticked-messages-folders

Renamed from `mh-index-ticked-messages-folders' for clarity.

*** 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.

*** mh-xemacs-tool-bar-position

Renamed from `mh-xemacs-toolbar-position' per GNU Emacs naming conventions.

*** mh-xemacs-use-tool-bar-flag

Renamed from `mh-xemacs-use-toolbar-flag' per GNU Emacs naming conventions.

*** mh-yank-behavior

Renamed from `mh-yank-from-start-of-msg' for clarity.



** Variables Deleted in MH-E 8.0

*** mh-alias-system-aliases

System definitions should not be a user option.

*** mh-edit-mhn-hook

Renamed to `mh-mh-to-mime-hook'.

*** mh-folder-updated-hook

Renamed to `mh-before-commands-processed-hook'.

*** mh-highlight-citation-p

Renamed to `mh-highlight-citation-style'.

*** mh-index-new-messages-folders

Renamed to `mh-new-messages-folders'.

*** mh-index-program

Renamed to `mh-search-program'.

*** mh-index-ticked-messages-folders

Renamed to `mh-ticked-messages-folders'.

*** 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.

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

Renamed to `mh-kill-folder-suppress-prompt-hooks'.

*** mh-letter-insert-signature-hook

Renamed to `mh-insert-signature-hook'.

*** mh-pick-mode-hook

Renamed to `mh-search-mode-hook'.

*** mh-show-use-goto-addr-flag

This flag was redundant with and inconsistent with
`goto-address-highlight-p' at the same time, so we removed it. Please
customize `goto-address-highlight-p' if you wish to turn off email
address and URL highlighting.

*** mh-speed-flists-interval

Renamed to `mh-speed-update-interval'.

*** mh-speed-run-flists-flag

Deleted since setting `mh-speed-flists-interval' to 0 accomplishes the
same thing.

*** mh-visible-header-fields

Deleted since it would hide new header fields you might want to see.

*** mh-xemacs-toolbar-position

Renamed to `mh-xemacs-tool-bar-position'.

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

Renamed to `mh-xemacs-use-tool-bar-flag'.

*** mh-yank-from-start-of-msg

Renamed to `mh-yank-behavior'.

*** mhl-formfile

Renamed to `mh-mhl-format-file'.



** New Faces in MH-E 8.0

*** mh-folder-address

Renamed from `mh-folder-address-face' per new Emacs conventions.

*** mh-folder-body

Renamed from `mh-folder-body-face' per new Emacs conventions.

*** mh-folder-cur-msg-number

Renamed from `mh-folder-cur-msg-number-face' per new Emacs conventions.

*** mh-folder-date

Renamed from `mh-folder-date-face' per new Emacs conventions.

*** mh-folder-deleted

Renamed from `mh-folder-deleted-face' per new Emacs conventions.

*** mh-folder-followup

Renamed from `mh-folder-followup-face' per new Emacs conventions.

*** mh-folder-msg-number

Renamed from `mh-folder-msg-number-face' per new Emacs conventions.

*** mh-folder-refiled

Renamed from `mh-folder-refiled-face' per new Emacs conventions.

*** mh-folder-sent-to-me-hint

Fontification hint face in messages sent directly to us.

*** mh-folder-sent-to-me-sender

Sender face in messages sent directly to us.

*** mh-folder-subject

Renamed from `mh-folder-subject-face' per new Emacs conventions.

*** mh-folder-tick

Renamed from `mh-folder-tick-face' per new Emacs conventions.

*** mh-folder-to

Renamed from `mh-folder-to-face' per new Emacs conventions.

*** mh-letter-header-field

Renamed from `mh-letter-header-field-face' per new Emacs conventions.

*** mh-search-folder

Renamed from `mh-index-folder-face'.

*** mh-show-cc

Renamed from `mh-show-cc-face' per new Emacs conventions.

*** mh-show-date

Renamed from `mh-show--face' per new Emacs conventions.

*** mh-show-from

Renamed from `mh-show-from-face' per new Emacs conventions.

*** mh-show-header

Renamed from `mh-show-header-face' per new Emacs conventions.

*** mh-show-pgg-bad

Face used to highlight a bad PGG signature.

*** mh-show-pgg-good

Face used to highlight a good PGG signature.

*** mh-show-pgg-unknown

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

*** mh-show-signature

Face used to highlight the signature.

*** mh-show-subject

Renamed from `mh-show-subject-face' per new Emacs conventions.

*** mh-show-to

Renamed from `mh-show-to-face' per new Emacs conventions.

*** mh-show-xface

Renamed from `mh-show-xface-face' per new Emacs conventions.

*** mh-speedbar-folder

Renamed from `mh-speedbar-folder-face' per new Emacs conventions.

*** mh-speedbar-folder-with-unseen-messages

Renamed from `mh-speedbar-folder-with-unseen-messages-face' per new
Emacs conventions.

*** mh-speedbar-selected-folder

Renamed from `mh-speedbar-selected-folder-face' per new Emacs conventions.

*** mh-speedbar-selected-folder-with-unseen-messages

Renamed from `mh-speedbar-selected-folder-with-unseen-messages-face'
per new Emacs conventions. 



** Faces Deleted in MH-E 8.0

*** mh-folder-address-face

Renamed to `mh-folder-address' per new Emacs conventions.

*** mh-folder-body-face

Renamed to `mh-folder-body' per new Emacs conventions.

*** mh-folder-cur-msg-face

Deleted. Not used.

*** mh-folder-cur-msg-number-face

Renamed to `mh-folder-cur-msg-number' per new Emacs conventions.

*** mh-folder-date-face

Renamed to `mh-folder-date' per new Emacs conventions.

*** mh-folder-deleted-face

Renamed to `mh-folder-deleted' per new Emacs conventions.

*** mh-folder-followup-face

Renamed to `mh-folder-followup' per new Emacs conventions.

*** mh-folder-msg-number-face

Renamed to `mh-folder-msg-number' per new Emacs conventions.

*** mh-folder-refiled-face

Renamed to `mh-folder-refiled' per new Emacs conventions.

*** mh-folder-subject-face

Renamed to `mh-folder-subject' per new Emacs conventions.

*** mh-folder-tick-face

Renamed to `mh-folder-tick' per new Emacs conventions.

*** mh-folder-to-face

Renamed to `mh-folder-to' per new Emacs conventions.

*** mh-index-folder-face

Renamed to `mh-search-folder'.

*** mh-letter-header-field-face

Renamed to `mh-letter-header-field' per new Emacs conventions.

*** mh-show-cc-face

Renamed to `mh-show-cc' per new Emacs conventions.

*** mh-show-date-face

Renamed to `mh-show-date' per new Emacs conventions.

*** mh-show-from-face

Renamed to `mh-show-from' per new Emacs conventions.

*** mh-show-header-face

Renamed to `mh-show-header' per new Emacs conventions.

*** mh-show-subject-face

Renamed to `mh-show-subject' per new Emacs conventions.

*** mh-show-to-face

Renamed to `mh-show-to' per new Emacs conventions.

*** mh-show-xface-face

Renamed to `mh-show-xface' per new Emacs conventions.

*** mh-speedbar-folder-face

Renamed to `mh-speedbar-folder' per new Emacs conventions.

*** mh-speedbar-folder-with-unseen-messages-face

Renamed to `mh-speedbar-folder-with-unseen-messages' per new Emacs conventions.

*** mh-speedbar-selected-folder-face

Renamed to `mh-speedbar-selected-folder' per new Emacs conventions.

*** mh-speedbar-selected-folder-with-unseen-messages-face

Renamed to `mh-speedbar-selected-folder-with-unseen-messages' per new
Emacs conventions.



** Bug Fixes in MH-E 8.0

*** Face Variable Names Now Follow Current Conventions

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

*** 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.

*** 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).

*** Completions Offered by mh-refile-message Are Not Sorted

This behavior is no longer observed (closes SF #698734).

*** Add Message-ID to Outgoing Messages

If you replied to a message in your `+outbox', an `In-Reply-To:'
header field was created that broke threading at the recipient's end.
We now add a `Message-ID:' to outgoing messages which fixes this
(closes SF #725425).

*** Inconsistent Prompts

Emacs changed their defaults in prompts from "Prompt: [value]" to
"Prompt (default value): ". All MH-E prompts have been updated to
comply with the new standard and are therefore now consistent
throughout the application (closes SF #730470, SF #1275933).

*** 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).

*** Initialization Fails If ~/Mail Exists

MH-E no longer calls `install-mh' so this issue has gone away (closes
SF #835192).

*** 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).

*** RETURN Causes Infinite Loop in mh-letter

This behavior is no longer observed (closes SF #887346).

*** 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).

*** Missing Headers When Replying to All

User needed to edit `replgroupcomps' (closes SF #918194).

*** 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).

*** Error Message When Trying to Send Using MH-E

This behavior is no longer observed (closes SF #1002103).

*** mh-find-path Doesn't Use mhparam

MH-E no longer peeks into the MH profile `~/.mh_profile' directly. It
uses `mhparam' instead (closes SF #1016027).

*** 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).

*** 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).

*** ! Doesn't Do Regions

Now it does (closes SF #1046330).

*** 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).

*** 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).

*** mh-index-previous-folder Does Not Work Correctly

If your cursor was on an item below a folder heading and you used
`M-TAB' (`mh-index-previous-folder'), you would move to the previous
folder heading. This has been fixed (closes SF #1126188).

*** 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).

*** Better Handling of Empty cur Sequence

If you refiled a message into a folder and then used `F r'
(`mh-rescan-folder') in that folder, your cursor would be taken to the
first message. The cursor now stays where it was (closes SF #1207247).

*** 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).

*** "Args out of range" Error in Displaying Message

This behavior is no longer observed (closes SF #1227504).

*** Front-and-back Truncation in mailto: Rendering

This behavior is no longer observed (closes SF #1227510).

*** Name of the Draft File in mh-comp.el

MH is documented to use the draft file. If you use a draft file for
something else (like Sylpheed), then use draft folders (closes SF
#1231483).

*** 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).

*** Msg Display Broken After Displaying Msg with Inline Image

Messages with inline images no longer trim certain message header
fields (closes SF #1306141).

*** mh-visit-folder Munges font-lock-keywords

MH-E broke highlighting in Gnus buffers. This was actually a problem
in CVS Emacs 22 and has been fixed there (closes SF #1393879).

*** Illegal Filename Chars for W32 Filesystems

Windows users who view `X-Image-URL:' images could not cache the
images since the cached image file names had illegal characters. This
has been fixed (closes SF #1396499).

*** mh-send Doesn't Handle mml Insertions Via mail-user-agent

Can now forward messages in Gnus if MH-E is your `mail-user-agent'
(closes SF #1399307).

*** Can't Narrow to Subject with Regexp Chars

The command `/ s' could not limit subjects that had special pick
characters (such as [, *, $, .). This has been fixed (closes SF
#1432548).

*** `/ s' Can Miss the Original Mail

The command `/ s' failed to include the message with the "Re:" in the
Subject. This has been fixed (closes SF #1438369).

*** mhparam -components Fails on mailutils

This error prevented MH-E from loading when using GNU mailutils. GNU
mailutils drops the `s' in this argument, so we did too since
-component still works in nmh and MH (closes SF #1446985).

*** `/ s' Still Has Problems With []'d Mail

On XEmacs, subjects that had special characters would prevent `/ s'
from narrowing to the given subject. These characters are now quoted
correctly in XEmacs (closes SF #1447598).

*** Variable mh-send-args Is a String, Not a List

This was causing errors when sending under GNU mailutils. The internal
variable `mh-send-args' is now a list which fixes the problem (closes
SF #1448604).

*** Update Icons

Most of the tool bar icons have been replaced by GTK or GNOME 2 icons
(closes SF #1452715).

*** Strip Build Number From emacs-version in X-Mailer

This has been done (closes SF #1466481).

*** Rename Function and Variable Definers

If you had ever shown help for an MH-E symbol that was both a function
or variable, you might have found that the hyperlink to the file

If you had used `C-c TAB' (`mh-insert-letter') to insert a letter into
your draft, specified a different folder, and chose the default
message number, you got the wrong message. This has been fixed (closes
SF #1473729).



* Changes in MH-E 7.4.4