v0.8.11 release

A new version, v0.8.11 of terminal e-mail client meli, has been released.

This is mostly a fixups release.

Say hello on #meli on OFTC IRC, or, #meli:matrix.org Matrix bridge (if operational).

How to get

Update cargo installations with:

cargo install meli

• Main repository https://git.meli-email.org/meli/meli Report bugs and/or feature requests in meli's issue tracker
• For pre-built linux amd64/aarch64 binaries and Debian packages see https://git.meli-email.org/meli/meli/releases/tag/v0.8.11.
• See README.md for full list of distro packaging options.
• See BUILD.md document for building documentation.
• Official git mirrors list:
  • https://codeberg.org/meli/meli
  • https://github.com/meli/meli

Thanks to contributors of this release

In alphabetical order:

• Guillaume Ranquet
• n4n5

And as always, yours truly.

Release highlights

notmuch address book support

notmuch address book support contributed by granquet:

The new notmuch_address_book_query account setting defines a query passed to notmuch address command to import contacts into meli.

Contacts are parsed and imported read-only.

Example query to import all contacts in the past 6 Months:

notmuch_address_book_query = "--output=recipients --deduplicate=address date:6M.."

IMAP connection pool

IMAP connections now use connection pools to prevent an on-going operation blocking other operations. This is because IMAP connections are stateful and we cannot re-use a single TCP connection for parallel operations. The use_connection_pool account setting can be used to disable this behaviour.

UI notification configuration

Add setting for UI notifications (as opposed to system notifications).

These are the notifications that appear as a floating dialog on the UI.

The new notifications.ui_notifications setting has three possible values:

• show (default)
• hide
• system (show them as system notifications)

Others

• Fixed invalid terminal behaviour by turning line wraparound mode off.
• Replying to self now sets e-mail receiver to previous recipients instead of self.
• IMAP now supports overriding server subscriptions in configuration.
• Composer now shows attachments after headers, making them more visible.
• mbox parsing is now more rigorous by not allowing mixed format behaviours and requiring a given format to parse.
• Remote account watching has been refactored to be more fault-tolerant and hiding errors from user if retrying is successful.

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