[mew-release 00078] Mew 4.1 release candidate 1

[Kazu Yamamoto ( 山本和彦 )]

Hello all,

Sorry for keeping you waiting so long. But we are pleased to announce
release of Mew version 4.1 release candidate 1:

	ftp://ftp.mew.org/pub/Mew/beta/mew-4.1rc1.tar.gz

A summary of highlight features of Mew 4.1 is attached below.

If you volunteer, please install Mew 4.1 and give us your feedback.
Ideally we will change documentation only till the stable release. If
bugs will be found, we will release another release candidate with the
bugs fixed.

Enjoy!

// Mew developing team

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	      <Differences between Mew 4.1 and Mew 3.2>

* Summary mode format
	- Parts of message bodies are displayed.
	- Message number disappeared.
	- "=" displays its message number.
	- Refile information overrides its body part in Summary mode.
	- 'mew-scan-form*' is now 'mew-summary-form*'.
	- "j" now jumps to a message with line number instead of its
	  message number.
	- You can still pack messages by "O" in a local folder.

* A new mark scheme
	- Marks are preserved even if Emacs is terminated.
	- The unread mark 'U' is introduced. 
	- The multi mark '@' is obsoleted. 
	- To handle multiple messages, use the review mark '*'. 
	- To preserve the review mark '*', use the escape mark '$'.
	- You can create Virtual mode for unread messages by
	  "C-um/" + 'U'.

* Summary mode
	- Refile information is logged. See "Mail/Refilelog".
	- You can pick or grep for a region as well as the entire
          folder. ("?" and "'")
	- You can rename and remove folders. ("Rd" and "Rr")

* Message mode

	- If To:/Cc: contains many addresses, they are covered with a
	  invisible veil except the first four lines. To toggle the
	  veil, type "zv".

* Virtual mode
	- You can pick or grep if the Virtual mode is created of
	  a one physical folder.
	- You can make a thread if the Virtual mode is created of
	  a one physical folder.

* Draft mode
	- You can complete addresses even if they have the same user
          name. See 'mew-use-full-alias'.
	- Fixing a bug of 'mew-make-message-hook' so that ispell-message
	  works.

* IMAP
	- A new name space. You can omit the unnecessary prefix,
          "inbox."!
	- Fcc: %backup
	- Invalid cache messages are marked with "#".
	- Invalid cache messages can be created even online (by "x").
	- IMAP messages are cached with the same UID number.
	- Transition mechanism from POP to IMAP is provided.
	  M-x mew-summary-from-local-to-imap copies messages on a
	  local file system to an IMAP server.

* NetNews

	- NetNews articles are now gained access by article numbers
	  instead of Message-Id:. Articles are cached with the same
	  article number.

* Spam filter
	- Mew side filtering when scanning/retrieving. 
	  See 'mew-inbox-action-alist'.
	- Mew side filtering by a command. ('"')
	- IMAP server side filtering. See 'mew-imap-spam-field'.
	- Learning as spam or ham. ("ls" and "lh")

* Network
	- POP/IMAP/SMTP/NNTP preserves its status even if its
	  connection is lost by accident.

* Other
	- "mewls" is now called "mewl" so that both "mewls" or Mew 2/3
          and "mewl" for Mew 4 co-exist.

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