Release Notes

From PMMail for OS/2

Contents 1 New features in PMMail 3.02 1.1 Changes: 1.2 Fixes: 1.3 In the migration tool: 2 New features in PMMail 3.01

New features in PMMail 3.02

Changes:

• (#211) On the message window menu the "View Attachments" menu item has been changed to a sub-menu labeled "View Externally..." The sub-menu items are "Header," "Body," and "Attachments."
• (#329) A limited set of pre-defined variables are allowed in signatures. "CURRENT" is the only variable that is valid in a signature. An additional tag, "VERSION", ($c.version) is added to show the current version of PMMail.
• (#473) On the Account Settings Security page, a new field "Local User" is added to allow the use of a different ID for signing a message. The default value is the entry on the General page for "Email Address".
• (#620) On the Account Settings Preferences page the "Include header when forwarding messages" has a sub-option "Add only a subset of the message header". The subset is From, To, Date and Subject.
• (#711) Newly added entries in a Address Book are centered and highlighted in the window.
• An error popup warns the user when the Mail Classifier (Bogofilter) does not perform as expected.
• (#814) Attachment filenames are now compatible with the filesystem.
• Added a new menu item for the Folder Popup: Empty <folder name>. Except for the Trash folder, the item is normally disabled. It may be enabled for individual folders in the Folder Settings dialog.
• The menu item list for the Folder Popup menu is now constant. Previously it changed if there were unread messages, or if "Empty <folder_name>" was enabled.
• When replying to a message that has a signature with the special "-- " leader, any text after the leader is no longer copied. The exception to this rule is when a subset of text has been highlighted.
• Passwords are decoded only long enough to be used.
• A change in the use of network connection functions has improved both the speed and stability of PMMail.

Fixes:

• (#797) If the external edit was chosen from the Message menu in the Compose window, the outgoing text's charset/codepage was converted for outgoing, but later the incoming text was not converted. The text is not converted at all now.
• (#803) Signature files were not stored in the Sigs directory.
• (#804) For messages with a large number of attachments some of the attachments seemed to disappear. The attachments were still there; an internal reference string was truncated that prevented their display.
• (#809) For filters the expression flags (-s, -e, ...) were evaluated after the string search function was setup. This caused random behavior of the flags.
• (#828) In Remote Control the "Select All" menu option was not always available.

In the migration tool:

• The XCOPY step has been broken into more steps, to reduce the possibility that XCOPY will run into trouble because of large amounts of data.
• There is now an option, for the user to select to set "Leave all messages on server", in all accounts, when the migration is done, for testing purposes.
• The migration tool now converts the folder.ini, and folder.bag, files, so that PMMail doesn't need to do that on initial startup.
• The tool now uses drctl017.dll, instead of drctl015.dll.

New features in PMMail 3.01

• Addition of new Incoming filter type: Incoming (pre-MC). Filters of this type operate on a message before the Mail Classifier (bogofilter) processes the message. The old filter type "Incoming" is now named "Incoming (post-MC)".
• Character set aliases: Some character set names have common misspellings. The Charset alias option allows these to be defined for a given standard character set name.
• Most Recently Used address list updated only when a message is sent. Previously it was updated when any address was added to the TO/CC address.
• The Minimized window for PMMail flashes when new mail has been retrieved. The length of time that it flashes may be limited to some fixed time.
• Drag-n-Drop (aka: Direct Manipulation) message from the Search window.
• Attachments may be dragged from the Read window to the Desktop.
• Fully compatible with tcp/ip v4.0 (16 bit stack).
• Timezone recognition improvements.
• When re-indexing a folder, the timezone and daylight savings time are respected for the message's sent timestamp.
• When replying to a message and the message's character set is different from the default charset, a warning pops up about the discrepancy. The warning may be overridden in Settings::Locale.
• Mail Classifier updates may now be set for every XX program shutdown.
• The TEMP directory may be set to a different path than in the Account directory. This increases performance when the mailstore is located on a remote system.
• Improvements in the Spelling Checker
• Performance enhancements in processing message filters and address books.
• Numerous defects fixed.