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- All changes (except the IMAP changes) in the first 10 beta releases:
- You can now set "banding colours" in the folder list, message lists, and in the addressbook lists. This is controlled on the new Tools|Options "List displays" page.
- Sorting by "From" field has been tidied up: now, if the "From" in a message starts with " or (, Pegasus Mail will reduce the address before comparing it. This means that a folder containing mixed messages and copies-to-self should now sort correctly by "from".
- You can now specify your own subject line "ignore" prefix strings using a PREFIX.PM file: a sample of this file (containing the same definitions that Pegasus Mail will use if no PREFIX.PM is found) will be included in the archive. Note that you can use both simple strings and regular expressions in PREFIX.PM.
- There is now a very significant user interface addition - a "windowbar", which shows a button for every window currently open in the program. This is part of a major redesign of the Pegasus Mail status bar.
- The "online/offline" indicator is now a button on the status bar, and can be used instead of the menu option to go in and out of offline mode.
- The TCP/IP "stop" button is now permanently present on the status bar, but is greyed when no transaction is taking place.
- The windowbar is toggled on and off with a third button on the status bar, and it remembers its status between sessions.
- The windowbar would be nothing much more than mildly diverting except that it is a valid drag-and-drop target for the windows it represents... So, you can drag a message from a folder and drop it onto a windowbar button representing an addressbook or an open message as if you were dropping it onto the window itself. This makes it worth its weight in gold, especially if you prefer to run the program with its internal MDI workspace maximized. I suspect that for people who like to run with the workspace maximized, this addition to the program is the difference between a functional user interface and a dysfunctional user interface
- All bitmaps in the program has been redesigned to 256-colour versions.
- Date parsing has been totally overhauled. This version should be able to handle almost any possible variation of date formats that are likely to be seen in Internet mail. It will also correctly handle times that have no seconds component (a long-standing bug). This is a *major* overhaul. Note that mail already in folders will be unaffected by this change unless the folder is reindexed, but messages in the new mail folder should gain the advantage of more robust parsing immediately.
- The mousewheel now works slightly differently: using the wheel to scroll a window will now scroll whatever window the mouse pointer is in, rather than the window that currently has focus.
- "Legacy attachments" (.PMF files associated with messages delivered locally) should now work again.
- Probnlems related to POP3 server-side filtering should now be solved
- The HAS and HASALL commands in content control should now work correctly. A side-effect of this is that various subtle bugs in the regular expression handler have also been fixed (most particularly that you can now end an expression on "/w" and it will work, where previously it wouldn't).
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