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From: Patrick Totzke <patricktotzke@googlemail.com>
User-Agent: alot/0.3
Subject: [alot] announcing v0.3
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:35:06 +0000
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Hi everyone!

I have just released version 0.3 of my terminal GUI `alot`; You can get a t=
arball here [0].
This release features many bugfixes, a revised config syntax and a fairly c=
omplete user and API
manual [1].

Detailed usage updates since v0.21:
* revised config syntax!
* config file validation, better feedback on malformed configs
* themes read from separate files in their own (validated) syntax
* complete mailcap compatibility
* user manual
* direct addressbook type that parses `abook`s contacts
* completion for multiple recipients via AbooksCompleter
* completion for optional command parameter
* generate and set a Message-ID header when constructing mails
* add User-Agent header by default
* add sent and saved draft mails to the notmuch index and add custom tags
* guess file encodings with libmagic
* new thread mode command: "remove" to delete messages from the index
* new thread mode command: "editnew" e.g. to continue drafts (bound to 'n')
* new thread mode command: "togglesource" to display raw messages (bound to=
 'h')
* virtual "Tags" header for print and pipeto commands via --add_tags parame=
ter
* much improved pipeto command in thread mode
* --spawn parameter for reply,forward,compose,editnew in thread mode
* --no-flush parameter for delayed flushing in tag,untag,toggletags commands
* make "signature as attachment" configurable; --omit_signature parameter f=
or compose
* new envelope command: "save" to save as draft (bound to 'P')
* --no-refocus and --spawn parameter for edit in envelope mode
* header key completion for set/unset in envelope buffer
* "Me" substitution for ones own name/address in authors string
* new search mode command and search argument: "sort"
* renamed search mode command 'toggletag' to "toggletags"
* new search mode commands: "tag" and "untag"
* custom tagstring representation: hiding, substitution, colours, multi-mat=
ching

Thanks goes to those who contributed:
$git shortlog -sen 0.21..| tail -n +2
52  dtk <dtk@gmx.de>
34  Daniel <quite@hack.org>
15  Justus Winter <4winter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
 4  bjoernb <post@bjoern.homelinux.org>
 3  Stanislav Ochotnicky <sochotnicky@redhat.com>
 2  Tom Prince <tom.prince@ualberta.net>,
..everyone who send feedback and of course to all notmuch contributors.


After this release I will switch the git branching model [3], so expect the=
 "testing" branch to
retire soon.

For the curious: The README.md lists some future goals together with their =
envisioned milestone
and pointers proof-of-concept implementations.

I could use some help from packagers. It should be relatively straight forw=
ard to package alot
but I haven't bothered to read up on the python packaging docs for $YOUR_DI=
STRI. A minor
complication could be that the docs should be generated at build time, whic=
h would introduce
some build-dependencies (mostly sphinx) that aren't runtime deps. The insta=
llation section in
the manual lists all dependencies, licence is GPL3+, let me know if you nee=
d any more info.

As always, don't hesitate to send feedback, bug reports, feature or pull re=
quests via the
projects github page [2].

Cheers,
/p

[0]: https://github.com/pazz/alot/tarball/0.3
[1]: http://alot.rtfd.org
[2]: https://github.com/pazz/alot
[3]: http://blogpro.toutantic.net/2012/01/02/another-git-branching-model/