[Bug 249244] mail/mu & mail/mu4e: Update to 1.4.13
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=249244
Bug ID: 249244
Summary: mail/mu & mail/mu4e: Update to 1.4.13
Product: Ports & Packages
Version: Latest
Hardware: Any
OS: Any
Status: New
Severity: Affects Only Me
Priority: ---
Component: Individual Port(s)
Assignee: hrs at FreeBSD.org
Reporter: gregf at hugops.pw
Flags: maintainer-feedback?(hrs at FreeBSD.org)
Assignee: hrs at FreeBSD.org
Created attachment 217880
--> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=217880&action=edit
mu-mu4e-1.4.13.diff
Hi, the only real testing this has had is my personal use of mu4e in Emacs 27.
Hopefully I didn't break too much. Someone with more experience should
certainly look into this better.
1.4 (released, as of April 18 2020)
mu
mu now defaults to the XDG Base Directory Specification for the default
locations for various files. E.g. on Unix the mu database now lives under
~~/.cache/mu/~ rather than ~~/.mu~. You can still use the old location by
passing --muhome=~/.mu to various mu commands, or setting (setq mu4e-mu-home
"~/.mu") for mu4e.
If your ~~/.cache~ is volatile (e.g., is cleared on reboot), you may want
use --muhome. Some mailing-list dicussion suggest that’s fairly rare though.
After upgrading, you may wish to delete the files in the old location to
recover some diskspace.
There’s a new subcommand mu init to initialize the mu database, which takes
the --maildir and --my-address parameters that index used to take. These
parameters are persistent so index does not need (or accept) them anymore. mu4e
now depends on those parameters.
init only needs to be run once or when changing these parameters. That
implies that you need to re-index after changing these parameters. The
.noupdate files are ignored when indexing the first time after mu init (or in
general, when the database is empty).
There is another new subcommand mu info to get information about the mu
database, the personal addresses etc.
The contacts cache (which is used by mu cfind and mu4e’s
contact-completion) is now stored as part of the Xapian database rather than as
a separate file.
The --xbatchsize and --autoupgrade options for indexing are gone; both are
determined implicitly now.
mu4e
mu4e no longer uses the mu4e-maildir and mu4e-user-mail-address-list
variables; instead it uses the information it gets from mu (see the mu section
above). If you have a non-default mu4e-mu-home, make sure to set it before mu4e
starts.
It is strongly recommended that you run mu init with the appropriate
parameters to (re)initialize the Xapian database, as mentioned in the
mu-section above.
The main screen shows your address(es), and issues a warning if
user-email-address is not part of that (and refer you to mu init). You can
avoid the addresses in the main screen and the warning by setting
mu4e-main-view-hide-addresses to non-nil.
In many cases, mu4e used to receive all contacts after each indexing
operation; this was slow for some users, so we have updated this to only get
the contacts that have changed since the last round.
We also moved sorting the contacts to the mu-side, which speeds things up
further. However, as a side-effect of this, mu4e-contact-rewrite-function and
mu4e-compose-complete-ignore-address-regexp have been obsoleted; users of those
should migrate to mu4e-contact-process-function; see its docstring for details.
Christophe Troestler contributed support for Gnus’ calender-invitation
handling in mu4e (i.e., you should be able to accept/reject invitations etc.).
It’s very fresh code, and likely it’ll be tweaked in the future. But it’s
available now for testing. Note that this requires the gnus-based viewer, as
per (setq mu4e-view-use-gnus t)
In addition, he added support for custom headers, so the ones for for the
non-gnus-view should work just as well.
org-mode support is enabled by default now. speedbar support is disabled by
default. The support org functionality has been moved to mu4e-org.el, with
org-mu4e.el remaining for older things.
mu4e now adds message-ids to messages when saving drafts, so we can find
them even with mu4e-headers-skip-duplicates.
Bookmarks (as in mu4e-bookmarks) are now simple plists (instead of cl
structs). make-mu4e-bookmark has been updated to produce such plists (for
backward compatibility). A bookmark now looks like a list of e.g. (:name "My
bookmark" :query "banana OR pear" :key ?f) this format is a bit easier
extensible.
mu4e recognizes an attribute :hide t, which will hide the bookmark item
from the main-screen (and speedbar), but keep it available through the
completion UI.
mu4e-maildir-shortcuts have also become plists. The older format is still
recognized for backward compatibility, but you are encouraged to upgrade.
Replying to mailing-lists has been improved, allowing for choosing for
replying to all, sender, list-only.
A very visible change, mu4e now shows unread/all counts for bookmarks in
the main screen that are strings. This is on by default, but can be disabled by
setting :hide-unread in the bookmark plist to t. For speed-reasons, these
counts do not filter out duplicates nor messages that have been removed from
the filesystem.
mu4e-attachment-dir now also applies to composing messages; it determines
the default directory for inclusion.
The mu4e <-> mu interaction has been rewritten to communicate using
s-expressions, with a repl for testing.
toys
Updated the mug toy UI to use Webkit2/GTK+. Note that this is just a toy
which is not meant for distribution. msg2pdf is disabled for now.
How to upgrade mu4e
upgrade mu to the latest stable version (1.4.x)
shut down emacs
Run mu init in a terminal
Make sure mu init points to the right Maildir folder and add your email
address(es) the following way:
mu init --maildir=~/Maildir --my-address=jim at example.com
--my-address=bob at example.com
once this is done, run mu index
Don’t forget to delete your old mail cache location if necessary (see
release notes for more detail).
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