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Re: mutt-1.5.12
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
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From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
To: Brad Thompson <yak@MIT.EDU>
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Subject: Re: mutt-1.5.12
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Brad Thompson <yak@MIT.EDU> wrote on Wed, 26 Jul 2006
at 13:43:03 -0400 in <20060726174302.GA1941@multics.mit.edu>:
> I installed mutt-1.5.12 for sun4x_510 and i386_rhel4 in the sipb
> locker. I don't know of any major changes since mutt-1.5.9, but there
> have been a lot of bugfixes, including one for an exploit (requires a
> compromised server). I will make the mutt symlink point to mutt-1.5.12
It sure looks like there were a lot of changes to the default
Muttrc, and even though we don't use the new Muttrc (we seem
to use one based on 1.5.6?), there are behavioral changes
in the software.
For instance, it appears to default to setting record to "~/sent",
i.e. Fcc: ~/sent appears as the default. This is probably a serious
problem if people don't have such a directory and it's AFS permissions
are not set correctly.
Running this diff is instructive for what may have changed:
diff -u /mit/sipb/arch/sun4x_510/lib/mutt-1.5.9/etc/Muttrc.orig \
/mit/sipb/arch/sun4x_510/lib/mutt-1.5.12/etc/Muttrc.dist
Apparently there are also some significant changes to the handling
of attachments, and the implementation of a cache for IMAP messages
(optional, defaults to off), etc.
Also, the manual seems to be missing. The muttrc causes it to display
the 1.5.6 manual, which is unfortunate.
-rw-r--r-- 1 73656 mit 0 Jul 25 21:08 /mit/sipb/arch/sun4x_510/lib/mutt-1.5.12/doc/mutt/manual.txt
I still haven't restarted my primary mutt, I just noticed these when I ran
it on an alternate mailbox...
--jhawk
