PEGASUS MAIL FOR WINDOWS
VERSION 4.

 

18-Aug-2001:

There is now a new options page for "Folders and previews" in where you can specify when folders need to be compressed, specify filters to work on preview or real view, change the ctrl+w behaviour, and more. There is now a "ribbon" indicating, From, To and Subject in preview mode. If you have a Microsoft wheel mouse, clicking the middle button while you're reading a message longer than a single page.... You'll find that it now appears to behave the same as IE - it allows you to scroll simply by moving the mouse.

08-Aug-2001:

The attachment pane can now preview RTF data. The F5 and Ctrl+F5 wrapping options can now be triggered while in the attachment pane. You can now delete attachments from the attachments pane. As in v3.12c, you can only do this for messages in the new mail folder. You can now print anything previewed in the attachments pane. The program should no longer select the wrong part of certain multipart messages as the body. Replying to single-part non-text MIME messages should now result in an empty body area in the message editor (previously, it would try to load the binary data, resulting in a garbage display). All messages are now saved in RTF format when saved as drafts or placed in the queue: this means that reopening such a message should result in you seeing exactly what you typed in. The price is that such saved sessions will no longer be openable in previous versions of Pegasus Mail (there will be no body). The "View" button in the reader will now behave as advertised, switching between fancy and plain views if the option exists.

06-Aug-2001:

You can now have pictures in your signatures (hint: create a table and put the picture in its own cell). In folder preview mode, "=" now functions the same as "+". You can now insert hyperlinks into HTML messages - see the link button on the editor toolbar. The forward dialog now has an addressing centre button instead of the old "?" button. In the desktop restore logic a change is that the program should now remember and activate the window you were actually *using* when the program was closed. The preview and classic folder views now remember their positions separately. The message reader and attachment preview object can now handle HTML data sent as application/octet-stream. This is a relatively rare combination, but a number of web site statistics generators seem to produce it. Printing: There is now exactly one printer user interface, and it operates exactly the same way whether you invoke it from a reader, from the folder preview window, or from a conventional folder browser window. Pegasus Mail can now print anything it can display. This means that HTML messages with embedded tables and graphics can be nicely printed, just as you would intuitively expect. lingering problems with network printers should be resolved. Special printer setups are now properly supported - so, if you have a printer that can duplex, Pegasus Mail can use it. This also means that you can print landscape if you want (something v3.12c can't do properly). You can now specify page ranges and numbers of copies; collated printing is also supported. Printing a selection of a message is explicitly supported as a standard capability if you print from an open window. This is the one place where there is any perceptible difference between printing from a reader window and printing from any other place. The printing code puts your name in a headline across the top of the first page. Printers with a name longer than 48 characters will now (finally) work correctly. Ctrl+Home and Ctrl+End should now work correctly in all lists in the program. Old-fashioned (non-MIME) messages with enclosures or attachments should now work correctly in the message reader. There is now a new feature: it is now possible to add keywords to the messages you send. The change has broader ramifications, though, in order to support this option in a sensible way, there are now alternative message editor layouts. If you go into Tools | Options | "Messages and replies", there is a new control, "Preferred editor variation for normal messages". The version should support To, CC, Reply-to and BCC address fields up to 32KB in length. There is now amended reply-all handling: the logic now puts every address from the "to" and "reply-to" fields (or "from" field if there is no reply-to) into the To: field of the new message, copies the original CC into the new message's CC field, removes any duplicates, and tries to remove your own address. The tests it does to identify your address are comprehensive, including all the e-mail addresses from any identities you have created, synonyms, gateway definitions - even your simple local username for local mail. With the 32K field limit, there should never be a need for a replyall.pml file again, although the logic to create one is still in place to handle that pathological case. There is now a "Find" button in the DList page of the addressbook window, and Ctrl+F should also work. You should now be able to move messages into the New mail folder Pegasus Mail should now tidy up all its $WPM....PM$ files on exit. The Ctrl+D "ASCII indenting" command should now use the Ctrl+J formatting margin by default. There's a new goody - the status indicators in the message reader; allow you to toggle flags with a simple click. Has been replied, Has been forwarded, Is read-only, Has a colour set. You can now use the Ctrl+F "search" and Ctrl+G "search again" commands in the raw view of the message reader. August 17th is D-Day (Programmers time, that is......)

29-Jun-2001:

Units can now be specified in the "Tools|Options|Message formatting" page and in the "Special" view of the message editor. Although the measurements are actually stored internally as MM, the user's display preference for units is remembered from session to session. There is now a separate control in the Tools|Options|Message Formatting page to allow you to specify the right-margin for the Ctrl+J command. This was necessary because the Ctrl+J command is always character-based. And yes, it is possible to set a value less than the right margin if you want to do that. The viewer editor dialog has been redesigned, and two new actions have been added: the first simply fails silently, which allows you to suppress the opening of an attachment without any warnings or other fanfare. The second displays a warning about the attachment being dangerous, and may be useful in system-wide VIEWER.PM files. You can now match an attachment type of "*" in a viewer definition, which will apply that definition to anything. By putting a viewer definition with this condition at the end of your viewer list, you can create a catch-all handler. The "table" button in the message editor now allows you to add, delete and append rows and columns to your tables in HTML. Single-part MIME message handling has been tidied up again. The "attachments" tab is now enabled for messages of this type and the body-viewer text has been changed somewhat. Saving quoted-printable textual data should no longer result in "unix-like" messages with only LF line terminators.

13-Jun-2001:

A big change: The new addressing centre dialog; this dialog replaces the "Recently-used addresses" buttons on the message editor with an amalgamated addressing centre providing quick access to recently-used addresses, addressbooks and Dlists. You can now activate it from the keyboard - Ctrl+Alt+T to activate the one associated with the "To" field, and Ctrl+Alt+C to activate the one associated with the "CC" field. The new addressing centre dialog is the first one in which the different tabs can be reached by pressing ALT+1, ALT+2 etc One area where the new addressing centre dialog really shines is in the way it co-operates with another new feature - the SDI message editor. You can now start a new SDI message by right-clicking the system-tray icon, and the new addressing centre is designed explicitly to work nicely with it. The signatures option page is heavily redesigned. You can now setup Pegasus Mail to handle the TAB key to your liking when it's pressed in the first columns of a message (indent or hanging indent and together with * like a bullet generator).

01-May-2001:

The New mail folder is now added to the folders list, you can drag and drop messages into it as well. There is now an "autoformat" options page, where you can set how to deal with formatting and add strings for autocorrection (like teh should be the). You can now specify to always paste plain text in preference of styled text. The offer advanced options for reply choice, is gone. It's now the default behaviour. There is a brandnew splash screen. The Options page can now be left open all the time and will no longer block running the system. Three new rule types are now working - message size, message color and message attributes. (Is read? contains HTML, has attachments and such). The design window of the filterrules is completely changed, you can now choose what type of rule you need. You can copy rules and right mouse context menu is supported. The window can now be left open without problems. More help is provided, as each filtertype now has it's own edit-window. You can now double-click a rule to edit it. This version should no longer leave behind temporary files when viewing complex messages (pm$ problem is gone). There is now only exactly one selection bar highlighted at one time. All other selection bars are dimmed.

20-Mar-2001:

New buttons on the reader buttonbar: Digest (view digest diectly), View (toggle between fancy and plain version), Find (as CTRL+F), Save (as CTRL+S), Properties (as F12). More functions can be added You can now choose between, graphics only, text only or show both, in the toolbar's, using a right click context menu. Some status information is shown when the message is opened: an attachment indicator, the color (if set), answered and Read-Only

18-Mar-2001:

The preference pages are completely redesigned. The new forward dialog is finished. Great!

25-Dec-2000:

This version uses a local folders cache file that is used on startup. The startup time -when no new folders are added- is significantly improved.

24-Dec-2000:

The selection bar in the source window from which the message was loaded now tracks the message currently being displayed in the reader. This one has been requested many times, and the reader redesign made it possible, so I've done it. When you reply to or forward a multipart message from a *folder* window, the proper body section is now loaded correctly into the editor (in all versions prior to now, the raw multipart data was loaded instead, which was a real pain). If you click on a window that is not the frontmost window, and you happen to click in a Windows edit control within that window, the window will *not* activate. So, if you click in the "To" field of a message editor window, the window won't activate. This is now fixed. While performing a Move to an IMAP folder via the Move button works well enough, dragging and dropping messages onto an IMAP folder within the Folders window still produces a slow process of opening a separate IMAP connection for each message moved. - Fixed now Just made a small change to the way rule processing works; now, if an unread mail message is moved into a folder by a newmail filtering rule, the folder will display in a different color (Brown) in the folder manager until it is opened. This gives an immediate visual cue for which folders contain "new" unread mail. The reader now displays headers *in the order* you define them in your resource file (if you do so) wpm-char.rsc. Long filenames is now supported in uuencoded sections. The forward dialogue is now the same from whatever place you press forward and has been made more clear.