PEGASUS MAIL FOR WINDOWS
VERSION 3.12

WinPMail v3.12a corrects problems experienced by some users:

• the delay in displaying the desktop at startup has been shortened.
• POP-before-SMTP authentication now uses the correct identity.
• WinPMail/16 now correctly saves changes to the POP3/SMTP settings.

Added on August 15th, 1999

Between July 27th and the release moment, the following features are changed or added to the program:

• New feature: The MIME message parser is now changed so that when you open a message of this type, it opens the *enclosed* message, not the top-level message. It will do this recursively, so if you have a message that contains a message that contains a message, Pegasus Mail will now correctly open the innermost message.
• New feature: When you forward a message with editing now, Pegasus Mail adds an "---- End of forwarded message ----" marker at the end of the forwarded data.
• New feature: There is now a button to the "Hyperlinks" preferences page that will make the necessary registry entry changes for Pegasus Mail to be the default mailer for MSIE (only after a completely new install).
• Improved: The new System messages window now distinguishes between messages sent/queued and messages written into SMTP final form.
• Fixed: The problem with an initial comma in the TO: field, causing the message to be lost without being sent to the recipients is now fixed.
• Improved: The telephone message extension now generates MIME messages.
• Fixed: The business card composer extension will no longer accept a blank "to" field.
• Improved: The business chard composer extension now supports address completion.
• Fixed: It turns out -only when using Novell- that Pegasus Mail generates confirmations of receipt in which the textual date string within the message body contains silly dates after the turn of the millenium (dates like "4 Feb 100" instead of "4 Feb 00"). This was due to a Novell bug. It is now corrected.

Added on August 13th, 1999

The 3.12 preview version (released on Thu, 12 Aug 1999 19:07:51 +1200) had to be pulled due to a problem that only affected those users who startup Pegasus Mail for Windows minimized. It will be re-released shortly.

Added on July 27th, 1999

• New feature: The system message window [new by itself in the 3.12 versions] now reports POP3 downloads; of particular interest is that it specifically reports that it has left oversize messages on the server.
• New feature: There is now an advanced preferences option for standalone users that lets the Deleted Messages folder persist between sessions.
• New feature: There is now a configurable option for v3.12 for wrapping and reformatting right-hand margin in the message reader - you can set the margin of your choice in the "Reader settings" preferences page.
• Improved: You can right-click the system tray icon to get an immediate telltale (this idea works best if you turn off the telltale window in your preferences and wait until the wings flap).
• New feature: You can hide the Pegasus Mail taskbar icon when the program is minimized and you are using the system tray icon.
• Fixed: Double-clicking the system-tray icon or telltale now activates the program even when it is not minimized.
• New feature: Persistently-mounted mailboxes now report new-mail in the telltale window.

Added on July 25th, 1999

• New feature: Added the Ctrl+[Plus] function. It resizes the columns to fit the widest data item in each column. In actual practice, this is probably not that useful at the moment, because list's does not support horizontal scrolling at the moment.
• New feature: Added a more useful feature Ctrl+[Minus], which resets the heading control in folder lists to its default values - this is the one that will actually be of use to people whose folders have gone mental and sized their columns off the screen. It's also handy to get a folder back to a normal state if you've just expanded a column for a moment to see some (more) data, using dragging or the function mentioned above.

Between June 18 and July 20, the following features are added to the program:

• New feature: There is now a "CHAIN <filename> command in the template language. You can have exactly one of these in any template file - it instructs the template engine to invoke another template once processing has finished on the current template. In essence, this allows you to generate more than one message using a template without having to select it manually each time.
• Fix: The line wrap problem, when inserting text is fixed - except in one case. At present the *last* line in the message editor will not wrap properly... There is no easy fix.
• Fix: Most of the users probably never use it, but the "Invert selection" right-click option in folders has been broken for a long time...
• New feature: There is now a logical AND operator in filter rules... You can now set "Logical AND" as the action for any individual rule: when you do this, the *next* rule must trigger as well.
• New feature: There is now a "Mark significant" action in filter rules. When this action is applied, a flag is set on the message that will force it to sort above all other messages in the folder. The flag is transient - it only lasts until the folder is closed.
• DOS improvement: Starting with v3.12, when you create a folder in the Windows version, it will now automatically be added to the top of the DOS version's folder hierarchy (main.pmt) if one can be found. This will allow much easier co-existence of the two programs.
• New feature: In a folder you can use a "select" option. The dialog that pops up is easy to use, yet encapsulates some of the most comprehensive and complex selection logic that you can imagine. Wait till you use it..... I cannot do without it anymore....
• New feature: You can now set an identity to be used in a template.
• Fix (16bit only): WinPMail/16 always gives the same 10 random numbers in the same order for generated messages every time.This code (which is actually a fault in the 16-bit NICA module has been in error for nearly four years and *luckily* never created messages to be lost.
• Fixed: Variable substitution in "TEXT" and "PICTURE" command in the template scripting did not work.
• Improved: The "Organization string" is now chosen based upon the identity used.
• New feature: There is now a built-in logging. A new option on the "Window" menu, "System messages" opens a dialog where audit trailing and general informational messages from Pegasus Mail are displayed. The dialog records the last 100 messages and is not logged to disk. This includes the logging of filter rules.
• Improved: The 3.12 has a completely reworked telltale logic. The telltale window in particular is probably now far more useful than it used to be - it only opens when it actually has something to tell you, closes when it is no longer required, and can be closed manually by the user. New mail reporting should work correctly even when Pegasus Mail is not minimized.

After the release of the 3.11 version on May 9, 1999 the following changes have been made to the program:

• Fix: Sometimes messages do not get the "SMTP Origin" flag triggered, although they are valid smtp messages. This results in converted headers when the message is forwarded. In the 3.12 this will no longer happen.
• Improved: In the Reply dialog, the identities box now has a scrollbar.
• Improved: The MHS/Connect2 tab in the Options dialog will now hide for those that do not use MHS/Connect2.
• Improved: The Network submenu in the Tools/Options menu is moved to Tools | Internet mail and now contains tabs for each of POP3, SMTP and Dialling
• New feature: Pegasus Mail for Windows now fully supports Authenticated SMTP, as one of the first mailers around.
• Fix: If an identity has the "Use in preference to LAN Mailer..." setting in the network configuration active, it will override any identity that has not set this. So using an UDG would be impossible in that case.
• More Windows standard: The accelerator for the preferences dialog is now no longer Shift+F10 but moved to Alt+F10.
• Fix: Reworks password storage in a much more secure way (you will lose your POP3 passwords if you migrate back to an earlier version having used v3.12).
• Improved: Uses ESMTP instead of SMTP, including support for the ESMTP SIZE declaration extension.
• New feature: Use of system-wide stationery messages.