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VM 8.1.2

Contains an important bug fix that is necessary for forward-compatibility of VM. Users are advised to upgrade from earlier releases to 8.1.2, before moving on to 8.2.x.

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Project:
VM
Series:
8.1.x
Version:
8.1.2
Released:
 
Registrant:
Uday Reddy
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Release notes 

Mainly a bug fix release fixing various compatibility issues. In particular, this version is "forward-compatible", i.e., it can interoperate with future releases of VM. All users of VM 8.1.1 are advised to upgrade to VM 8.1.2 before moving on to 8.2.0. The users of 8.2.0 prereleases need not use this version.

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  BUG FIXES

   * VM versions 8.1.0 and 8.1.1 had a small bug which blocks them from
     being forward-compatible, i.e., being able to handle VM folders from
     future versions of VM. (They give error messages of the form "Bad VM
     cache data" and reinitialize the cached-data vectors.) The bug is
     fixed in this version of VM.

   * If you download mail from IMAP spool files, the 8.1.1 and 8.1.2
     versions of VM had a bug which allowed the the
     `X-VM-IMAP-Retrieved' headers to grow unnecessarily. This can
     slow down the saving of folders into which you downloaded IMAP
     mail. To solve the problem, run the command
     `vm-prune-imap-retrieved-list' after installing this version.
     (See info under "IMAP Spool Files".)

  IMPROVEMENTS

    * Virtual folder facility extended to work with POP and IMAP folders.

    * VM made safe for use with Gnu Emacs 23, by removing a few calls
      to the `next-line' function (which was redefined in this Emacs).

    * Several critical problems with Thunderbird inter-operability
      were corrected. Manual section on Thunderbird folders added.

    * Extended Org mode email links to work for virtual folders.

  CHANGES

   ** The default values of `vm-pop-expunge-after-retrieving' and
      `vm-imap-expunge-after-retrieving' changed to nil to help new
      users.

    * `vm-fill-long-lines-in-reply' initialized to the default value
      of `fill-column'.

    * All MIME messages are now decoded in the Presentation buffer,
      unless they have US-ASCII as their charset. In particular,
      messages with 8bit charsets are treated this way. Such messages
      are not regarded "plain messages" any more.

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Bug report Importance Assignee Status
916695 #916695 Forward compatibility of cached data vectors 3 High Uday Reddy  8 In Progress
504791 #504791 vm-expose-hidden-headers 5 Low Uday Reddy  10 Fix Released
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