Introducing a us-dist target to create a USG-friendly version of

mutt.  Additionally, the NEWS file is prepared for 0.95.

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-Major changes since 0.91.1
---------------------------
-
-- additional format for $hdr_format
-  	%L	displays the total size of all visible messages in a
-		limited view
-	%<fmt>	displays current time using strftime(fmt)
-
-- additional operators to the pattern matching lanauge:
-	~B<pattern>	finds pattern anywhere in the message (more
-			efficient than ~h %s | ~b %s
-	~z<size>	finds messages of size <size>
-			E.g. 
-			 ~z<10k #finds messages smaller than 10KB
-			 ~z>10k #finds messages larger than 10KB
-			 ~z10k  #finds messages exactly 10KB in length
-			 
-
-- the $hdr_format variable is renamed to $index_format
-  $hdr_format is still accepted for backwards compatibility
-
-- new variable $folder_format to display entries in the 'browser' menu.
-
-- new variable $followup_to to control generation of Mail-Followup-To
-  field. You can edit this field and Mutt will not overwrite it.
-
-- new variable $sendmail_wait
-
-  Specifies the number of seconds to wait for the ``sendmail'' process
-  to finish before giving up and putting delivery in the background.
-
-  Mutt interprets the value of this variable as follows:
-
-  >0      number of seconds to wait for sendmail to finish before continuing
-  0       wait forever for sendmail to finish
-  <0      always put sendmail in the background without waiting
-
-  Note that if you specify a value other than 0, the output of the child
-  process will be put in a temporary file.  If there is some error, you
-  will be informed as to where to find the output.
-
-- Variable $sendmail_bounce has been removed. Mutt now passes all
-  recipients on the command line for normal sending. 
-
-- new variable $query_command
-  Adds support for querying an external database for email addresses.
-
-- The $forward_decode variable has been removed. This has been split into 2
-  variables
-
-  $forward_decode - used when $mime_fwd is not set
-  $mime_forward_decode - used when $mime_fwd is set
-
-- new variable $wrap_search. This controls whether searches wrap around the
-  end of the mailbox.
-  
-  When set, searches will wrap around the first (or last) message. When
-  unset, searches will not wrap
-
-
-- New command 'reset' to reset variables to their default compile-time
-  definitions. When used with special keyword 'all', all variables are
-  reset to their default values. When used with the 'set' command and the
-  variable name prefixed with '&', this has the same behaviour as the
-  'reset' command.
-
-  Eg. 
-   reset move
-   reset all
-   set &move
-   set &all
-
-- Function key names used in muttrc need to be enclosed in <>. 
-  Function keys can be used in macros also.
-  
-  Eg. 
-   macro index Y *<PageUp>
-   bind index <down> next-entry
-
-- You can now delete a message's attachments by pressing 'd' (delete-entry)
-  on the attachment in the attachment menu.
-  
-- You can now color index menu entries using the pattern matching language.
-  The 'uncolor' command resets the entry to its default color. The '*'
-  token can be used to reset all index entries to their default colors.
-  
-  Eg.
-    color index blue white ~fvikas
-    color index red white ~z>100k
-    uncolor index ~fvikas
-    uncolor index *
-    
-- mailboxes specified in save-hooks can be %-expanded using $header_format
-
-- the default save mailbox no longer looks at defined `lists'. To get the
-  old behaviour, use
-    save-hook ~l %B
-
-- optional strings in format strings have been extended to allow for an
-  `else' clause.  the new syntax is:
-        %?<testchar>?<if-string>&<else-string>?
-  or if no `else' clause is desired (backwards compatibility):
-        %?<testchar>?<if-string>?
-
-- If new mail is delivered to a folder when Mutt is displaying a limited
-  view of the folder, it is added to the limited view only if it satisfies
-  the current limit criteria.
-
-- the <Tab> key on the command-line now completes commands and variable
-  names. The longest non-ambiguous part is put on the command-line.
-  Entering additional text and using <Tab> will perform completion again.
+Major changes since 0.93
+------------------------
+
+- i18n support of various kinds: Mutt now comes with character set
+  definitions, so it is able to convert character sets you encounter
+  in e-mail messagese to your local display's character set as
+  defined by the $charset configuration variable.  This includes a
+  poorly-tested UTF-8 decoder.
+
+  Additionally, mutt includes GNU gettext support, so you can make
+  it speak your own language.  To use this, just set the environment
+  variable "LANG" appropriately.
+
+  (For a list of currently supported languages, have a look at the
+  po files in the po subdirectory.)
+
+- There is support for the POP3 "last" command for just fetching the
+  latest unread messages from your POP server.  To enable use of
+  this feature, set the $pop_last configuration option.
+
+- The IMAP code's handling of server-side EXPUNGE messages was
+  fixed, so mutt should now be able to cope with concurrent access
+  to IMAP folders.  This is, e.g., supported by the CMU and MS
+  Exchange IMAP servers.
+
+- mh_sequences support was _dropped_.  The reason is, on the one
+  hand, a major re-write of the mh and maildir folder
+  resynchronization code, and the fact that there is no locking
+  protocol defined for this file.  If you want to use
+  one-file-per-message folders, you should better rely on maildir.
+
+- The new patterns ~g and ~G in the pattern language match PGP
+  signed and encrypted messages, respectively.
+
+- The $smileys configuration variable defines exceptions from the
+  quote-detecting regular expressions.  This can be used to
+  correctly handle lines beginning with smileys such as ":-)" -
+  these lines were detected as quoted text by the old code.
+
+- The syntax for function keys in key bindings and macro definitions
+  has changed:  Instead of "fN", you have to use "<fN>" now.  This
+  is more consistant with the syntax for the other special keys like
+  "<up>", "<down>", and so on.
+
+- We have a new feature named edit-message.  This enables you to
+  edit a message from one of your mail folders and re-send or
+  re-file it afterwards.
+
+- Thread collapsing is there: To control it, we have the two
+  functions collapse-all and collapse-thread, and the configuration
+  variables $collapse_unread and $collapse_jump.
+
+- We have a new set of functions decrypt-{save,copy}. They strip off
+  the initial layer of PGP/MIME encryption.  For "classical"
+  application/pgp messages, they are equivalent to the decode
+  functions, for unencrypted messages they fall back to the normal
+  save functions.
+
+- The build-time "hidden host" option has gone.  Use the
+  $hidden_host configuration variable instead.
+
+- Unknown major MIME types are recognized properly.
+
+- An option $write_bcc controls whether or not the Bcc header is
+  written out to the mail transport agent or not.  Exim users may
+  wish to use this.
+
+- The compose menu tries to detect and smoothly handle changes to
+  attached files.
+
+- On the compose menu, you can generate a "private" copy of an
+  attached file using the get-attachment function.
+
+- sendmail's exit values are properly interpreted, so you will no
+  longer get a "no such file or directory" error when sending mail
+  to a non-existing local user.
+
+- The variable $attach_format controls the look of the compose and
+  attach menus.
+
+- The file browser permits you to view files before selecting them.
+
+- Bug fixes of all kinds.  Look at the ChangeLog file for details.
+
+
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