CHANGELOG.md

Change Log

All notable changes to aerc will be documented in this file. The format is based on Keep a Changelog.

0.18.2 - 2024-07-29

Fixed

• Builtin calendar filter error with non-GNU Awk.
• Detection of unicode width measurements on tmux 3.4.
• Dropping of events during large pastes.
• Home and End key decoding for the st terminal.

0.18.1 - 2024-07-15

Fixed

• Startup error if log-file directory does not exist.
• Aerc is now less pedantic about invalid headers for the maildir and notmuch backends.
• Error when trying to configure smtp-domain with STARTTLS enabled.
• smtp-domain is now properly taken into account for TLS connections.

0.18.0 - 2024-07-02

Added

• Add [ui].msglist-scroll-offset option to set a scroll offset for the message list.
• Add new :align command to align the selected message at the top, center, or bottom of the message list.
• Inline image previews when no filter is defined for image/* and the terminal supports it.
• :bounce command to reintroduce messages into the transport system.
• Message counts are available in statusline templates.
• Execute IPC commands verbatim by providing the command and its args as a single argument in the shell.
• Virtually any key binding can now be configured in binds.conf, including Shift+Alt+Control modifier combinations.
• Configure default message list :split or :vsplit on startup with message-list-split in aerc.conf.
• Create notmuch named queries with the :query command.
• Specify a ":q" alias for quit.
• The :detach command now understands globs similar to :attach.
• Match filters on filename via .filename,~<regexp> =.
• Tell aerc how to handle file-based operations on multi-file notmuch messages with the account config option multi-file-strategy and the -m flag to :archive, :copy, :delete, and :move.
• Add [ui].dialog-{position,width,height} to set the position, width and height of popover dialogs.
• New pgp-self-encrypt option in accounts.conf.
• Add --no-ipc flag to run aerc mailto:..., aerc mbox:..., and aerc :<command...> within the current aerc instance and prevent listening for IPC calls from other aerc instances.
• Add config options disable-ipc-mailto and disable-ipc-mbox to make mailto:... and mbox:... commands always run in a new aerc instance.
• Set global options in accounts.conf by placing them at the top of the file.
• Silently close the terminal tab after piping a message to a command with :pipe -s <cmd>.
• New tag-modified hook for notmuch and JMAP accounts.
• New flag-changed hook.
• Notmuch search term completions to :query.
• Notmuch completions for :cf, :filter and :search.
• Add imaps+insecure to the available protocols, for connections that should ignore issues with certificate verification.
• Add [ui].select-last-message option to position cursor at the bottom of the view.
• Propagate terminal bell from the built-in terminal.
• Added AERC_FOLDER_ROLE to hooks that have AERC_FOLDER.
• Added {{.AccountBackend}} to templates.
• Added AERC_ACCOUNT_BACKEND to hooks with AERC_ACCOUNT.
• Per folder key bindings can now be defined for the message viewer.
• Allow using existing directory name with :query -f.
• Allow specifying the folder to delete with :rmdir.
• The address book is now used for :cc, :bcc and :forward.
• Allow fallback to threading by subject with [ui].threading-by-subject.

Fixed

• Calendar responses now ignore case.
• Allow account- and folder-specific binds to coexist.
• Fixed crash when running :send with a :preview tab focused.
• Deadlock when running aerc mailto:[email protected] without another instance of aerc already running.
• Prevent a freeze for large-scale deletions with IMAP.
• Mime-Version is no longer inserted in signed text parts headers. MTAs normalizing header case will not corrupt signatures anymore.
• Restore previous behaviour of the new message bell which was broken in the last two releases for at least some setups.

Changed

• The default [ui] settings and the default styleset have changed extensively. A no-color theme can be restored with the monochrome styleset.
• The default colorize theme has been changed to use the base terminal colors.
• The [viewer] section of stylesets now preserve default values as documented in aerc-stylesets(7) unless explicitly overridden.
• Add Message-ID to the variables of [hooks].mail-received.
• The TrayInfo template variable now includes a visual mark mode indicator.
• The disable-ipc option in aerc.conf completely disables IPC.
• Improved readability of the builtin calendar filter.
• :open commands now preserve the original filename.
• Unparsable accounts are skipped, instead of aerc exiting with an error.

Deprecated

• Built-in descriptions for the default keybinds shown on the review screen will be deprecated in a future release. Descriptions can be added to those keybinds with inline comments in binds.conf.

0.17.0 - 2024-02-01

Added

• New flagged criteria for :sort.
• New :send-keys command to control embedded terminals.
• Account aliases now support fnmatch-style wild cards.
• New :suspend command bound to <C-z> by default.
• Disable parent context bindings by declaring them empty.
• Toggle folding with :fold -t.
• mail-deleted hook that triggers when a message is removed/moved from a folder.
• mail-added hook that triggers when a message is added to a folder.
• Improved command completion.
• Customize key to trigger completion with $complete in binds.conf.
• Setting complete-min-chars=manual in aerc.conf now disables automatic completion, leaving only manually triggered completion.
• .ThreadUnread is now available in templates.
• Allow binding commands to Alt+<number> keys.
• AERC_ACCOUNT and AERC_ADDRESS_BOOK_CMD are now defined in the editor's environment when composing a message.
• Reply with a different account than the current one with :reply -A <account>.
• New [ui].tab-title-viewer setting to configure the message viewer tab title.
• The {{.Subject}} template is evaluated to the new option [ui].empty-subject if the subject is empty.
• Change to a folder of another account with :cf -a <account> <folder>.
• Patch management with :patch.
• Add file path to messages in templates as {{.Filename}}.
• New :menu command to invoke other ex-commands based on a shell command output.
• CLI flags to override paths to config files.
• Automatically attach signing key with pgp-attach-key in accounts.conf.
• Copy messages across accounts with :cp -a <account> <folder>.
• Move messages across accounts with :mv -a <account> <folder>.
• Support the draft flag.
• Thread arrow prefixes are now fully configurable.

Fixed

• colorize support for wild cards ? and *.
• Selection of headers in composer after :compose -e followed by :edit -E.
• Don't lose child messages of non-queried parents in notmuch threads
• Notmuch folders defined by the query * handle search, filter, and unread counts correctly.

Changed

• :open commands are now executed with sh -c.
• :pipe commands are now executed with sh -c.
• Message viewer tab titles will now show (no subject) if there is no subject in the viewed email.
• Signature placement is now controlled via the {{.Signature}} template variable and not hard coded.

0.16.0 - 2023-09-27

Added

• JMAP support.
• The new account wizard now supports all source and outgoing backends.
• Edit email headers directly in the text editor with [compose].edit-headers in aerc.conf or with the -e flag for all compose related commands (e.g. :compose, :forward, :recall, etc.).
• Use :save -A to save all the named parts, not just attachments.
• The <Backspace> key can now be bound.
• colorize can style diff chunk function names with diff_chunk_func.
• Warn before sending emails with an empty subject with empty-subject-warning in aerc.conf.
• IMAP now uses the delimiter advertised by the server.
• carddav-query utility to use for address-book-cmd.
• Folder name mapping with folder-map in accounts.conf.
• Use :open -d to automatically delete temporary files.
• Remove headers from the compose window with :header -d <name>.
• :attach -r <name> <cmd> to pipe the attachments from a command.
• New msglist_gutter and msglist_pill styles for message list scrollbar.
• New %f placeholder to file-picker-cmd which expands to a location of a temporary file from which selected files will be read instead of the standard output.
• Save drafts in custom folders with :postpone -t <folder>.
• View "thread-context" in notmuch backends with :toggle-thread-context.

Fixed

• :archive now works on servers using a different delimiter
• :save -a now works with multiple attachments with the same filename
• :open uses the attachment extension for temporary files, if possible
• memory leak when using notmuch with threading
• :pipe <cmd> now executes sh -c "<cmd>" as indicated in the man page.

Changed

• Names formatted like "Last Name, First Name" are better supported in templates

• Composing an email is now aborted if the text editor exits with an error (e.g. with vim, abort an email with :cq).

• Aerc builtin filters path (usually /usr/libexec/aerc/filters) is now prepended to the default system PATH to avoid conflicts with installed distro binaries which have the same name as aerc builtin filters (e.g. /usr/bin/colorize).

• :export-mbox only exports marked messages, if any. Otherwise it exports everything, as usual.

• The local hostname is no longer exposed in outgoing Message-Id headers by default. Legacy behaviour can be restored by setting send-with-hostname = true in accounts.conf.

• The notmuch bindings were replaced with internal bindings

• Aerc now has a default style for most UI elements. The default styleset is now empty. Existing stylesets will only override the default attributes if they are set explicitly. To reset the default style and preserve existing stylesets appearance, these two lines must be inserted at the beginning:

  *.default=true
  *.normal=true
  

• Openers commands are not executed in with sh -c.

Deprecated

• Aerc can no longer be compiled and installed with BSD make. GNU make must be used instead.

0.15.2 - 2023-05-11

Fixed

• Extra messages disappearing when deleting on maildir.
• colorize and wrap filters option parsing on ARM.

0.15.1 - 2023-04-28

Fixed

• Embedded terminal partial refreshes.
• Maildir message updates after mbsync.

0.15.0 - 2023-04-26

Added

• New column-based message list format with index-columns.
• Add a msglist_answered style for answered messages.
• Compose Format=Flowed messages with format-flowed=true in aerc.conf.
• Add a trimSignature function to the templating engine.
• Change local domain name for SMTP with smtp-domain=example.com in aerc.conf
• New column-based status line format with status-columns.
• Inline user-defined styles can be inserted in UI templates via the {{.Style "name" string}} function.
• Add the ability to run arbitrary commands over the socket. This can be disabled using the disable-ipc setting.
• Allow configuring URL handlers via x-scheme-handler/<scheme> [openers] in aerc.conf.
• Allow basic shell globbing in [openers] MIME types.
• Dynamic msglist_* styling based on email header values in stylesets.
• Add mail-received, aerc-startup, and aerc-shutdown hooks.
• Search/filter by flags with the -H flag.

Changed

• Filters are now installed in $PREFIX/libexec/aerc/filters. The default exec PATH has been modified to include all variations of the libexec subdirs.
• The built-in colorize filter theme is now configured in styleset files into the [viewer] section.
• The standard Usenet signature delimiter "-- " is now prepended to signature-file and signature-cmd if not already present.
• All aerc(1) commands now interpret aerc-templates(7) markup.
• running commands (like mailto: or mbox:) no longer prints a success message
• The built-in colorize filter now emits OSC 8 to mark URLs and emails. Set [general].enable-osc8 = true in aerc.conf to enable it.
• Notmuch support is now automatically enabled when notmuch.h is detected on the system.

Deprecated

• [ui].index-format setting has been replaced by index-columns.
• [statusline].render-format has been replaced by status-columns.
• Removed support for go < 1.18.
• Removed support for [ui:subject...] contextual sections in aerc.conf.
• [triggers] setting has been replaced by [hooks].
• smtp-starttls setting in accounts.conf has been removed. All smtp:// transports now assume STARTTLS and will fail if the server does not support it. To disable STARTTLS, use smtp+insecure://.

0.14.0 - 2023-01-04

Added

• View common email envelope headers with :envelope.
• Notmuch accounts now support maildir operations: :copy, :move, :mkdir, :rmdir, :archive and the copy-to option.
• Display messages from bottom to top with [ui].reverse-msglist-order=true in aerc.conf.
• Display threads from bottom to top with [ui].reverse-thread-order=true in aerc.conf.
• Style search results in the message list with msglist_result.*.
• Preview messages with their attachments before sending with :preview.
• Filter commands now have AERC_FORMAT, AERC_SUBJECT and AERC_FROM defined in their environment.
• Override the subject prefix for replies pattern with subject-re-pattern in accounts.conf.
• Search/filter by absolute and relative date ranges with the -d flag.
• LIST-STATUS and ORDEREDSUBJECT threading extensions support for imap.
• Built-in wrap filter that does not mess up nested quotes and lists.
• Write multipart/alternative messages with :multipart and commands defined in the new [multipart-converters] section of aerc.conf.
• Close the message viewer before opening the composer with :reply -c.
• Attachment indicator in message list flags (by default a, but can be changed via [ui].icon-attachment in aerc.conf).
• Open file picker menu with :attach -m. The menu must be generated by an external command configured via [compose].file-picker-cmd in aerc.conf.
• Sample stylesets are now installed in $PREFIX/share/aerc/stylesets.
• The built-in colorize filter now has different themes.

Changed

• pgp-provider now defaults to auto. It will use the system gpg unless the internal keyring exists and contains at least one key.
• Calling :split or :vsplit without specifying a size, now attempts to use the terminal size to determine a useful split-size.

Fixed

• :pipe -m git am -3 on patch series when Message-Id headers have not been generated by git send-email.
• Overflowing text in header editors while composing can now be scrolled horizontally.

Deprecated

• Removed broken :set command.

0.13.0 - 2022-10-20

Added

• Support for bindings with the Alt modifier.
• Zoxide support with :z.
• Hide local timezone with send-as-utc = true in accounts.conf.
• Persistent command history in ~/.cache/aerc/history.
• Cursor shape support in embedded terminals.
• Bracketed paste support.
• Display current directory in status-line.render-format with %p.
• Change accounts while composing a message with :switch-account.
• Override :open handler on a per-MIME-type basis in aerc.conf.
• Specify opener as the first :open param instead of always using default handler (i.e. :open gimp to open attachment in GIMP).
• Restored XOAUTH2 support for IMAP and SMTP.
• Support for attaching files with mailto:-links
• Filter commands now have the AERC_MIME_TYPE and AERC_FILENAME variables defined in their environment.
• Warn before sending emails that may need an attachment with no-attachment-warning in aerc.conf.
• 3 panel view via :split and :vsplit
• Configure dynamic date format for the message viewer with message-view-this-*-time-format.
• View message without marking it as seen with :view -p.

Changed

• :open-link now supports link types other than HTTP(S)
• Running the same command multiple times only adds one entry to the command history.
• Embedded terminal backend (libvterm was replaced by a pure go implementation).
• Filter commands are now executed with :~/.config/aerc/filters:~/.local/share/aerc/filters:$PREFIX/share/aerc/filters:/usr/share/aerc/filters appended to the exec PATH. This allows referencing aerc's built-in filter scripts from their name only.

Fixed

• :open-link will now detect links containing an exclamation mark
• outgoing-cred-cmd will no longer be executed every time an email needs to be sent. The output will be stored until aerc is shut down. This behaviour can be disabled by setting outgoing-cred-cmd-cache=false in accounts.conf.
• Mouse support for embedded editors when mouse-enabled=true.
• Numerous race conditions.

0.12.0 - 2022-09-01

Added

• Read-only mbox backend support.
• Import/Export mbox files with :import-mbox and :export-mbox.
• address-book-cmd can now also be specified in accounts.conf.
• Run check-mail-cmd with :check-mail.
• Display active key binds with :help keys (bound to ? by default).
• Multiple visual selections with :mark -V.
• Mark all messages of the same thread with :mark -T.
• Set default collapse depth of directory tree with dirlist-collapse.

Changed

• Aerc will no longer exit while a send is in progress.
• When scrolling through large folders, client side threading is now debounced to avoid lagging. This can be configured with client-threads-delay.
• The provided awk filters are now POSIX compliant and should work on MacOS and BSD.
• outgoing-cred-cmd execution is now deferred until a message needs to be sent.
• next-message-on-delete now also applies to :archive.
• :attach now supports path globbing (:attach *.log)

Fixed

• Transient crashes when closing tabs.
• Binding a command to <c-i> and <c-m>.
• Reselection after delete and scroll when client side threading is enabled.
• Background mail count polling when the default folder is empty on startup.
• Wide character handling in the message list.
• Issues with message reselection during scrolling and after :delete with threading enabled.

Deprecated

• Removed support for go < 1.16.

0.11.0 - 2022-07-11

Added

• Deal with calendar invites with :accept, :accept-tentative and :decline.
• IMAP cache support.
• Maildir++ support.
• Background mail count polling for all folders.
• Authentication-Results display (DKIM, SPF & DMARC).
• Folder-specific key bindings.
• Customizable PGP icons.
• Open URLs from messages with :open-link.
• Forward all individual attachments with :forward -A.

Changed

• Messages are now deselected after performing a command. Use :remark to reselect the previously selected messages and chain other commands.
• Pressing <Enter> in the default postpone folder now runs :recall instead of :view.
• PGP signed/encrypted indicators have been reworked.
• The threading-enabled option now affects if message threading should be enabled at startup. This option no longer conflicts with :toggle-threads.

Fixed

• :pipe, :save and :open for signed and/or encrypted PGP messages.
• Messages that have failed gpg encryption/signing are no longer sent.
• Recalling attachments from drafts.

0.10.0 - 2022-05-07

Added

• Format specifier for compact folder names in dirlist.
• Customizable, per-folder status line.
• Allow binding commands to < and > keys.
• Optional filter to parse ICS files (uses python3 vobject library).
• Save all attachments with :save -a.
• Native gpg support.
• PGP auto-sign and opportunistic-encrypt options.
• Attach your PGP public key to a message with :attach-key.

Fixed

• Stack overflow with faulty References headers when :toggle-threads is enabled.

0.9.0 - 2022-03-21

Added

• Allow :pipe on multiple selected messages.
• Client side on-the-fly message threading with :toggle-threads (conflicts with existing threading-enabled option).
• Per-account, better status line.
• Consecutive, incremental :search and :filter support.
• Foldable tree for directory list.
• Bcc and Body in mailto: handler.
• Fuzzy tab completion for commands and folders.
• Key pass though mode for the message viewer to allow searching with less.

Changed

• Use terminfo for setting terminal title.

0.8.2 - 2022-02-19

Added

• New colorize filter with diff, multi-level quotes and URL coloring.
• XDG desktop entry to use as default mailto: handler.
• IMAP automatic reconnect.
• Recover drafts after crash with :recover.
• Show possible actions with user configured bindings when reviewing a message.
• Allow setting any header in email templates.
• Improved :change-folder responsiveness.
• New :compose option to never include your own address when replying.

Changed

• Templates and style sets are now searched from multiple directories. Not from a single hard-coded folder set at build time. In addition of the configured PREFIX/share/aerc folders at build time, aerc now also looks into ~/.config/aerc, ~/.local/share/aerc, /usr/local/share/aerc and /usr/share/aerc
• A warning is displayed when trying to configure account specific bindings for a non-existent account.

Fixed

• Ctrl-h binding not working.
• Open files leaks for maildir and notmuch.

0.8.1 - 2022-02-20 [YANKED]

0.8.0 - 2022-02-19 [YANKED]

0.7.1 - 2022-01-15

Added

• IMAP low level TCP settings.
• Experimental IMAP server-side and notmuch threading.
• :recall now works from any folder.
• PGP/MIME signing and encryption.
• Account specific bindings.

Fixed

• Address book completion for multiple addresses.
• Maildir external mailbox changes monitoring.

0.7.0 - 2022-01-14 [YANKED]

0.6.0 - 2021-11-09

The project was forked to https://git.sr.ht/~rjarry/aerc.

Added

• Allow more modifiers for key bindings.
• Dynamic dates in message list.
• Match any header in filters specifiers.

Fixed

• Don't read entire messages into memory.

0.5.0 - 2020-11-10

Added

• Remove folder with :rmdir.
• Configurable style sets.
• UI context aware options and styling.
• oauthbearer support for SMTP.
• IMAP sort support.

0.4.0 - 2020-05-20

Added

• Address book completion.
• Initial PGP support using an internal key store.
• Messages can now be selected with :mark.
• Drafts handing with :postpone and :recall.
• Tab management with :move-tab and :pin-tab.
• Add arbitrary headers in the compose window with :header.
• Interactive prompt with :choose.
• Notmuch labels improvements.
• Support setting some headers in message templates.

Changed

• aerc.conf ini parser only uses = as delimiter. : is now ignored.

0.3.0 - 2019-11-21

Added

• A new notmuch backend is available. See aerc-notmuch(5) for details.
• Message templates now let you change the default reply and forwarded message templates, as well as add new templates of your own. See aerc-templates(7) for details.
• Mouse input is now optionally available and has been rigged up throughout the UI, set [ui]mouse-enabled=true in aerc.conf to enable.
• :cc and :bcc commands are available in the message composer.
• Users may now configure arbitrary message headers for editing in the message composer.

0.2.0 - 2019-07-29

Added

• Maildir & sendmail transport support
• Search and filtering are supported (via / and \ by default)
• aerc mailto:... now opens the composer in running aerc instance
• Initial tab completion support has been added
• Improved headers and addressing in the composer and message view
• Message attachments may now be added in the composer
• Commands can now be run in the background with :exec or :pipe -b
• A new triggers system allows running aerc commands when new emails arrive, which may (for example) be used to send desktop notifications or move new emails to a folder

Changed

• The filters have been rewritten in awk, dropping the Python dependencies. w3m and dante are both still required for HTML email, but the HTML filter has been commented out in the default config file.
• The default keybindings and configuration options have changed considerably, and users are encouraged to pull the latest versions out of /usr/share and re-apply their modifications to them, or to at least review the diff with their current configurations. aerc may not behave properly without taking this into account.

0.1.0 - 2019-06-03

Initial release.