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Closed and stalled discussions on GitHub

Closed and stalled discussions on GitHub#

NeoMutt is very popular and its users come up with lots of great new ideas.

Downside#

Unfortunately NeoMutt’s development team is quite small, so they can’t implement everything.

Below is a list of the issues where either the developers have no interest in or can’t help with.

They are closed for now, but they can be re-opened if someone volunteers to do the work. Help will be freely given to volunteers. Issues where the result is hard to achieve are labeled with . Please note, those hard issues are intentionally closed – they are sometimes demotivating due to its difficulty.

#741 add Memory Hole support to protect metadata #

Encryption scheme that hides the subject.

: Raised by libBletchley – Result: no interest

#678 Give line number to $editor with $edit_headers #

Pass the line number to the editor, of the first line of the body.

: Raised by @qsuscs – Result: no interest

#658 feature request: using $my_vars in macro <shell-escape>’s #

Expand config variables in shell command lines

: Raised by @demure – Result: hard, may be possible in future using lua

#587 Better support for multipart/alternative?#

Allow better nesting of mime parts

: Raised by @mrzool – Result: desired, no interest

#550 PR: Show alternating padding in help menus #

Show lines of dots in rows in the help page to assist reading.

: Raised by @somini – Result: hard, need better colour support in help

#535 Could ‘^g’ be remapped?#

Allow the ‘abort’ key to be remapped

: Raised by @Alok – Result: no interest

#504 imap: Mutt should handle dropped connections/routing problems gracefully.#

Make IMAP able to handle dropped connections

: Raised by @toogley – Result: desired, hard

#469 Wish: more intelligent pasting #

Respect the escape sequences for bracked paste mode

: Raised by @phmarek – Result: no interest

#468 Stop asking for “Exit Mutt?”#

Copy vim: don’t try to exit on Ctrl-C, but tell the user what they need to know

: Raised by @tdehaeze – Result: desired, no interest

#467 Use cp1252 instead of iso-8859-1 #

Workaround some bad mailers sending cp1252 chars as iso-8859-1

: Raised by @gahr on 2017-03-14 – Result: low risk, charset-hook workaround

#464 Limit or search by alias #

Add the ability to limit, or search, the index by an alias

: Raised by @mingsu – Result: no interest

#404 Use of gpg’s group option #

Use a GPG feature to allow encrypting to groups

: Raised by @Polichronucci on 2017-02-17 – Result: no interest

#394 syntax highlighting inside mails #

Allow flexible highlighting of emails

: Raised by @toogley on 2017-02-13 – Result: hard due to mutt’s colour handling

#367 imap4 partial fetch request #

Save bandwidth by only fetching a section of the index

: Raised by @rusnasonov on 2017-02-07 – Result: desired, hard

#355 Danger: DMARC about to kill mailing list experience #

Mailing lists don’t play well with DMARC

: Raised by @nobrowser on 2017-02-02 – Result: not much we can do

#324 hcache: keep multiple mailbox caches open concurrently #

Keep multiple hcache files open

: Raised by @sassmann on 2017-01-24 – Result: hard work, need evidence of slowness first

#321 use a modern build system like cmake // refactor autotools toolchain #

Replace autotools build system

: Raised by @toogley on 2017-01-24 – Result: easy, but too many potential problems for distros

#315 %F should display all participants #

Display all the participants of an email in the index

: Raised by @guiniol on 2017-01-22 – Result: no interest, wait for scripting?

#314 Thread summary instead of showing the first email when folded #

Custom display of a folded collapsed thread

: Raised by @guiniol on 2017-01-22 – Result: no interest, wait for scripting?

#309 Mouse support under terminals?#

Support mouse clicks in the index, sidebar, etc

: Raised by @Chinggis6 on 2017-01-20 – Result: not too hard, low priority

#294 Have the keymap functions accept arguments #

Allow some functions to accept arguments, e.g. :exec shell-escape "uname -a"

: Raised by @guyzmo – Result: desired, no interest

#277 Subject separate from tree?#

Create index_format expandos to display just the tree and just the subject

: Raised by @iKarith – Result: desired, no interest

#273 Bindable command to unsubscribe from a mailing list #

Command to (un)subscribe to/from mailing lists

: Raised by @nobrowser on 2016-12-28 – Result: non-trivial, no interest

#265 influence which mail in a collapsed thread that is used to represent the thread #

Pick an email to represent a collapsed thread

: Raised by @quite on 2016-12-08 – Result: no interest, wait for scripting?

#254 Moving messages to trash is slow #

Get IMAP to delete emails (move to trash)

: Raised by @darnir on 2016-11-22 – Result: desired, hard

#247 some highlighting rules leave an ugly box around the tree symbol #

Colour bleeding due to NeoMutt’s handling of colours.

: Raised by @qwence on 2016-11-17 – Result: repeatable, very hard to fix

#225 keywords patch and IMAP FLAGS?#

Store keywords/tags in the IMAP flags

: Raised by @lrosenman on 2016-11-08 – Result: not a good idea, alternatives are being worked on

#213 Provide an alias for pgp_sign_as #

Create an synonym for pgp_sign_as

: Raised by @agx on 2016-10-25 – Result: no interest

#196 Feature: save-attach-hook #

Choose attachment save dir by hook

: Raised by @RichiH on 2016-10-15 – Result: desired, no interest

#194 ability to set attach-file starting directory and save-entry destination directory #

Add options to configure attachment browser start dir

: Raised by @4nd3r on 2016-10-11 – Result: no interest, macro workaround

#192 different sorting for attachment browser #

Create a separate sort option for the attachment browser

: Raised by @4nd3r on 2016-10-11 – Result: no interest

#171 Add placeholder to display the list of participants in a folded thread in index_format #

When a thread is folded, display all the participants in the address field

: Raised by @guiniol on 2016-10-03 – Result: desired, wait for scripting?

#150 Trash improvements #

Better handling of deleted emails, modification of flags / headers

: Raised by @4nd3r on 2016-09-18 – Result: desired, hard

#149 Feature request: crypt-autoselectkey #

Add variable crypt_autoselectkey, which allows forcing neomutt to autoselect a key when only (a trusted) one is available in the “PGP keys matching …” menu.

: Raised by @dannyob – Result: desired, no interest

#131 notmuch: add modify-thread-labels #

Extend the workflow of quasi-delete

: Raised by @guiniol on 2016-09-07 – Result: no interest

#126 ignore / kill thread #

All the user to mute (ignore/hide) all/part of a thread

: Raised by kronat on 2016-08-30 – Result: desired, hard

#109 feature-request - make index_label take support pattern #

Add a regex to the index_label color object

: Raised by @antognolli – Result: no interest

#105 notmuch entire-thread outside a virtual folder #

Locate all the messages in a thread of the given message

: Raised by @a3nm – Result: no interest

#99 Add support for proxy #

Let NeoMutt use a socks5 proxy

: Raised by @pickfire on 2016-08-12 – Result: no interest

#98 Save or restricted sync #

Partial synchronisation of mailbox changes

: Raised by @RichiH on 2016-08-11 – Result: hard, not well-defined

#93 Open attachments in the background #

Fork a new process to avoid NeoMutt waiting for an attachment viewer

: Raised by @RichiH – Result: desired, too busy

#85 NeoMutt true colors support #

Allow full 24-bit (rgb) colours in Mutt

: Raised by @pickfire on 2016-07-22 – Result: very hard

#83 Crash when using Torify and NeoMutt (Bug)#

Using Torify causes NeoMutt to crash

: Raised by @flatcap on 2016-07-21 – Result: feature disabled otherwise safe to use

#72 Get message-id after send #

Extract message-id of last-sent email (when using command line)

: Raised by @ymuv on 2016-07-08 – Result: not enough interest

#69 Option for robust macros with shell-escapes #

Ideas to make macros more reliable and predictable

: Raised by @scottkosty – Result: desired, no interest

#67 Mailto handling #

Handle mailto: links from external sources

: Raised by cryptomaniac512 on 2016-07-04 – Result: hard to do portably

#64 using bright in index makes all index bright (Bug)#

Colour bleeding due to NeoMutt’s handling of colours.

: Raised by @4nd3r on 2016-06-28 – Result: repeatable, very hard to fix

#56 Vi-key bindings for mutt #

Make NeoMutt more Vim-like

: Raised by @pickfire on 2016-06-20 – Result: some bindings implemented, some changes to NeoMutt required for better emulation

#47 Rolling Releases (bleeding edge)#

Distribute NeoMutt as a always-stable rolling release

: Raised by @flatcap on 2016-06-14 – Result: hard to maintain, feature/bug-fix cadence adopted

#28 Patch Tree Proposal #

Distribute NeoMutt as a set of feature patches

: Raised by @flatcap on 2016-05-20 – Result: hard to maintain, no interest

#5 24bits (true color) support#

Allow full 24-bit (rgb) colours in Mutt

: Raised by timofonic on 2016-03-17 – Result: very hard

#3 fuzzy address lookup #

Allow Mutt to get its address book from an alternate source

: Raised by @257 on 2016-03-15 – Result: hard

#2 send commands to remote instance #

Be able to “drive” mutt from other programs, mailto:

: Raised by @257 on 2016-03-15 – Result: hard, would require lots of work

Closed and stalled discussions on GitHub

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Closed and stalled discussions on GitHub#

Downside#

#5 24bits (true color) support#