MH-E 8.1 released

MH-E is the Emacs interface to the MH mail system. Version 8.1 fixes some issues with forwarding messages, respects the MH environment variable, adds the abilities to use aliases with GPG and show HTML even though it is discouraged. A new hook, `mh-annotate-msg-hook', has been added. Read on for more details.

Project home page at: http://mh-e.sourceforge.net/.

** New Features in MH-E 8.1

*** Showing HTML When Text Is the Preferred Alternative

The `:' (`mh-show-preferred-alternative') function displays the message with the default preferred alternative. This is as if `mm-discouraged-alternatives' was set to nil (closes SF #1777321).

** New Variables in MH-E 8.1

*** mh-annotate-msg-hook

The `mh-annotate-msg-hook' hook is run whenever a message is sent and after the scan lines and message are annotated. Hook functions can access the current folder name with `mh-current-folder' and obtain the message numbers of the annotated messages with `mh-annotate-list' (closes SF #2032269).

** Bug Fixes in MH-E 8.1

*** Can't Use Aliases with GPG

GPG requires e-mail addresses, not aliases. So resolve aliases before passing addresses to GPG/PGP (closes SF #649226).

*** mh-mml-forward-message: Disposition Should Be Inline

The `f' (`mh-forward') function now forwards messages as inline attachments (closes SF #1378993).

*** Illegal Filename Characters on Windows Filesystems

The X-Image-URL cache created filenames with invalid characters on Windows. This has been fixed with assistance from Darel Henman (closes SF #1396499).

*** Make Many Header Fields Invisible

A vast landscape of header fields are now invisible. You may wish to browse `mh-invisible-header-fields-default' and clean up your `mh-invisible-header-fields' option. A permanent bug (SF #1916032) has been created where you can submit header fields that should be rendered invisible (closes SF #1701231).

*** mh-forward Includes Messages in Reverse Order

The `f' (`mh-forward') function now includes messages in ascending order (closes SF #1730393).

*** Compile Fails on XEmacs 21.5 beta 28

This has been fixed with help from Henrique Martins (closes SF #1749774).

*** Rename Variant mu-mh to gnu-mh

The GNU mailutils MH variant was named inconsistently. The variant has been renamed to gnu-mh throughout. Thanks to Darel Henman (closes SF #1768928).

*** Respect MH environment Variable

Even if the MH environment variable was set, an error was generated if "~/.mh_profile" was missing. This has been fixed thanks to Xavier Maillard (closes SF #1946861).

*** Enhance mh-mairix-regexp-builder

Additional items have been added to the Mairix search string in order to support org-mode. Thanks to Nick Dokos (closes SF #1965704).

*** mh-mh-to-mime and mh-mh-to-mime-undo Reset Modes

The functions `mh-mh-to-mime' and `mh-mh-to-mime-undo' would reset the buffer to fundamental mode. This has been fixed thanks to Sergey Poznyakoff (closes SF #1966722).