PEGASUS MAIL FOR WINDOWS
VERSION 4.02

 

03-August-2002:

Pegasus Mail for Windows version 4.02 has been released. This page is now closed. I will start a new page for the 4.1 version, as soon as development starts. Announcement of the new page will be on my site log page. If you want to be informed, just enter your e-mail address in the box provided on my site log page and you will be notified about all changes in that page.

01-August-2002:

Up to now (4.02 Beta 14) the following (new) items have been corrected / changed: Final release No further changes. Gold release candidate Messages with long lines (longer than 250 characters) will now no longer crash on sending when you have pre-send attachment checking turned on. The "Add identity" dialog now has a scrollbar on the "Base on" dropdown list. There is now a tutorial on editing your signature, which stresses the need to edit each variation. Beta 17 Ctrl+Z characters in new mail are now stripped, which should prevent message truncation problems once messages are moved to v2-format folders. The "DoS Exploit" based on long From: or To: addresses has been fixed - Pegasus Mail now caps individual addresses at 250 characters. Filenames for downloaded POP3 mail are now much more robustly constructed. This should more or less eliminate all possibility of duplicate internal message ID fields in folders. A "trick" has been applied to the way internal UIDs are constructed that should prevent duplicate IDs from appearing in a folder when the same message is copied into the folder more than once. .PNX files *should* now be correctly deleted when sending a reloaded queued or saved message. All .CNX files are now deleted on program exit. The drop-down control in the encryption preferences page now has a dynamic scrollbar (it will appear when needed). Beta 16 (RC2) This version will fix a Ctrl+Y crash under Windows XP. SETREG now sets up the registry in the way Jan M proposed. Note that on existing systems, in order to take advantage of this, you may need to go into the "Hyperlinks" preferences page and click the "MSIE Mailer" button. The v4.02 version of SETREG can be retrofitted to earlier versions of Pegasus Mail - simply copy it into the same directory as WINPM-32.EXE. You can now edit your signatures even if you have "No signature" set as your default. Several small resource changes requested by translators have been made. The beta 15 code that scans the first few lines of messages for attachments has been tweaked, so that it does *not* scan any line with your standard quoting prefix (default >). Only lines you actually type in will be checked for attachment indications. Beta 15 (RC1) A dialog similar to the "Open in web browser" is added, warning, for downloading pictures. The dialog warns about the amount of information that can be gleaned by a malicious sender and, like the browser warning, has a "don't show me this warning again" button. The way the "Font" button is handled in preview mode has been changed. The .ZIP files inside the installer package have now been renamed so that annoying utilities like ZIPMagic won't mess with them when the setup program tries to find them. The installer renames the files when it installs them. Beta 14 The title of the folders window now correctly removes the folder name when you switch back to classic mode. A strange, intermittent problem where you could end up with your text changing font when you resent a message has been corrected. When you click "Send", WinPMail now scans the first few lines of the message looking for the words "attached", "attachment", "enclosed" and "enclosure": if it finds any and the message has no attachments, it pops up a little dialog asking if you've forgotten the attachments. This behavior can be turned off in the "Message formatting" preferences page, but it's kind of cute. In preview mode, pressing the back-quote key ( ` ) will now switch you back to the last window you were using. This keystroke makes it hugely easier to get back to a reply if you need to refer to a message. It's a very small change, but I think it's quite important. The order extension now forces the user to select the expiry date from drop-down lists so it can generate unambiguous 4-digit years... Beta 13 A number of untranslatable strings have been moved into resources in response to requests from translators. The problem with the glossary list not updating properly when you click in the abbreviation list while the preview area has focus has now been corrected. "Open in browser" will now work in preview mode. The "Sender" field now updates correctly in the new address gleaning dialog. New versions of TER32.DLL and HTS32.DLL are now included. Added a "Show pictures" command in the right-click menu in the reader window, in classic mode only; NOT in preview mode at this stage. Beta 12 The <Enter> key is now smart-mapped in preview mode; pressing <Enter> while the list of folders has focus will open the selected folder in its own window, while pressing <Enter> while either the message list or the preview area has focus will open the message in its own reader window. Right-clicking in the message reader when a selection is active has been tweaked: now, even if you click on an area of text marked as a hyperlink, you will get the standard right-click menu. This makes the new "Open as hyperlink" command much more intuitive, since you no longer need to right-click away from the selection. When you drag a message and drop it on any address field in the message editor, some new code takes over; it evaluates the From, Reply-To, Sender and Return-path fields of the message, and if there is only one field present or all the fields present contain the same address, it will add that address without further ado... If, however, the fields contain different addresses, it will pop up a dialog showing you the addresses and allowing you to select which combination you would like to use. Beta 11 Address completion from addressbooks should now work for aliases containing high-bit characters. "Open selection as hyperlink" should now work in preview mode Ctrl+Space should now page the preview up irrespective of the pane that currently has focus The <spacebar> bar is now sensitive to the speedsearch timeout in the folder list when in preview mode... So, if you type a folder name then hit space within the speedsearch timeout period, it will select the folder. From that point, space will page the preview until you do another speedsearch operation (so, pressing space effectively terminates the speedsearch).

30-June-2002:

Up to now (4.02 Beta 10) the following (new) items have been corrected / changed: Beta 10 Problems with the preview area in the glossary manager window not updating correctly when items are added or deleted have been fixed. You can now use "Insert" to create a glossary item, and "Del" to delete one (while in the glossary manager, of course). Type-through (speed-search) now works in the glossary manager's abbreviation list, making it much easier to find entries. Counter update problems with the new mail folder should now finally be resolved. The POP3 should now work a bit faster... Beta 9 The current folder name is now shown in the title bar in preview mode. Aliases containing high bits *should* now work. No special treatment or conversion should be necessary for this. Circulation messages should now work again - they will get their own "Circulate" button in the message reader when displayed. Printing text attachments should no longer cause GPFs. The header area should now remember its size in all cases (even if you switch away to another view of the reader). The help for forwarding messages has been brought up-to-date the message list in the forwarding dialog now refreshes properly when you remove a message. Beta 8 When forwarding messages with editing, you now have more options for handling the inclusion of headers in the message, and the options work with all message types. The addressbook preview area will refresh correctly when you save changes to the currently-previewed record. Passwords are now stored in encrypted format in saved messages, and interim queue jobs. It's not an ultra-secure encryption method, The program *should* now support AUTH PLAIN for SMTP authentication. Recovering deleted space after reindexing a folder will no longer generate an error; furthermore, recovering deleted space should now be faster, and significantly more reliable. A "Select" button has now been added in Classic and Preview modes. This button simply activates the "Select messages" dialog. Beta 7 More fixes to the editor wrapping issues. Replying or forwarding when specifying a different identity should now respect the margin and styling settings from that identity. "Next" and "Prev" (and their keyboard analogs) should now work when reading noticeboard messages. Edit | Find text should now work more or less correctly in preview mode (it actually *was* working before, but the menu was popping up in the extreme lower-right corner of the screen). Message | Save messages to disk, and right-clicking in the message preview pane and selecting "Save message data to file" should now work The splash screen has been updated to reflect a 2002 copyright The splash screen progress indicator gives a bit more information about what the program is doing. The folder browser will now get focus back after message copy operations. Beta 6 This version supports progress indications on the splash screen. This version should now no longer mangle your line widths when sending mail under the following circumstances: When you have "disable all formatting" turned on and add no signature to the message When the message was created with an identity where the margins differ from the the identity you are using when you send the message. A number of hard-to-describe situations when styling is enabled but no styling actually appears in the message. Beta 5 The layout of the glossary manager is now more in keeping with the general layout of the rest of the program, the list and editor areas are larger, and the editor area does word-wrapping. The "Save and edit" function is back in the attachments view of the message editor. A new command, "Boilerplate using template" on the "Message" menu is now available: this command allows you to use a template to insert text into a message you already have open. This is a useful supplement to glossaries, since it allows you to use boilerplate text that contains prompted substitutions. Automatic indenting should now be slightly more reliable and should no longer introduce spurious extra blank lines at the end of the message buffer. Translated versions picking up the English help file should have been fixed. The "Preview" button in the "Attachments" view of the message editor got badly messed-up in text-only toolbar mode has been fixed. The button now also uses a more informative caption to make it useful in text-only mode.

11-May-2002:

Up to now (4.02 Beta 4) the following (new) items have been corrected / changed: It should now be possible to delete entries from system-wide addressbooks. "Quick folders" have become "Quick actions", and you can now create quick actions that invoke a set of filtering rules on the currently-selected messages, as well as the traditional Move and Copy actions. There's also a new "Apply general rule set to selection" option in the Tools|Filtering rules menu to allow you to do the same thing manually. There is now a "Sort" button in the DList manager window: this button allows a variety of different sorting methods to be applied to DLists on demand. The "Attachment" view of the message editor now does "string trimming& in the filename field to ensure that the filename part is always visible. The addressbook manager window will now reopen if it was open when you last exited and you have "Save desktop" turned on. Changing users should no longer result in duplicate addressbooks in the addressbook manager window. Changing users should now correctly close all open windows for the old user before starting up as the new one. You can now set the colour for the "Unread" and "Recent unread" colours in the folder manager using new buttons in the "Folders and previews" preferences page. The combobox control in the "Message reader" preferences page has now been changed to a colour button. Tooltips should now have a frame in all cases. The header area in the message reader should remember its size, both in normal and "enlarged" views. Nested folders containing new mail should now properly propagate their colouration to their ancestors in the folder tree, even if they are closed. You can now set environment variables in PEGASUS.INI: create a section called [WinPMail 32-bit environment] and simply have one equation per line - like this: [WinPMail 32-bit environment] PMR = \\urania\sys\abooks MAI = o:\public\mail Settings in this section override "real" environment variables, although the "real" ones are still used if they are present and there is no equivalent entry in this section. One of the smaller but more annoying problems in the preview mode (prior to now if you reply to a message then send it, when focus returns to the preview window, the keyboard is non-responsive - you have to click in one of the panes to reenable it) has been fixed. The client toolbars in the reader (the main toolbar, the attachments toolbar and the annotations toolbar), and the toolbar in the classic folder window now remember their sizes. You can now select text spanning multiple lines in the reader window, then right-click and choose "Open selection as hyperlink"; Pegasus Mail will reduce the multi-line data to a single-line URL and process it normally.

20-Jan-2002:

Up to now (4.01a Beta3) the following new items have been corrected / changed: To allow system-wide addressbooks to be modified like any other addressbook. To ensure that system-wide addressbooks are only held open while they are actually being accessed.

27-Dec-2001:

Development starts for the 4.01a version, whis is mainly a bugfix release. Up to now (beta2) the following items have been corrected / changed: You can now open HTML data in your web browser via a new right- click option in the message reader. You can no longer move a message into the folder you currently have open in the preview mode (previously this would cause a lockup). You can now delete messages from the "Deleted Messages" folder again without having to hold down CTRL The problem where addressbook fields could "overflow" into each other has been corrected. "Find" and "Find again" commands have now been added to the addressbook window. The "Find" command allows you to search for a single address or to select all matching addresses: when you use the "Select all matches" option, doing a Ctrl+G to do a "Find again" will repeat the search from scratch. The "Select all" command now works in addressbooks. A new template command has been added: "body". This command delimits an open, multiline block of text, and is far simpler to use than multiple "insert" statements because you don't have to worry about quotes or "~z" markers at the end of lines. Within a "body" block you can still use any substitution character you want. The body is read until the command "endbody" is encountered on a line of its own. You can now specify an alternative printer font for messages again. You have to do this in the "Reader" preferences dialog - for a variety of reasons It cannot be made available in the print dialog itself (because by the time that dialog is displayed, the buffer is already loaded). At least one problem with HIERARCH.PM - the one that has plagued us for a long time where the "Deleted messages" folder would simply disappear from time to time, is now solved. Now, at startup Pegasus Mail checks every existing folder in the list to see if it actually has a valid parent node - if it doesn't, then the folder is adjusted so that it becomes a root-level child node in mailbox 0, this should cure some lost-folder problems in HIERARCH.PM. The "Resend this message" function for copies-to-self has been tweaked; it should no longer "munge" sequences of short lines by pasting them all together in one long line.

06-November-2001:

All information up to the release of version 4.01 can be found here.