[mew-release 00079] Mew 4.1 release candidate 2

Kazu Yamamoto ( 山本和彦 ) kazu at example.com
Wed Oct 6 12:13:58 JST 2004


Hello all,

Sorry for bothering you but we found a fatal bug in Mew 4.1 rc1.  So,
we would like to release Mew 4.1 rc2.

	ftp://ftp.mew.org/pub/Mew/beta/mew-4.1rc2.tar.gz

Again, a summary of highlight features of Mew 4.1 is attached below.

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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