Note for MicroDotII Alphas ========================== - starting with 0.127, MD-2 requires a keyfile. I mailed out keys to all known IBeta testers, if you're missed out, please complain. - the cps rate as calculated by the new message scan is taken by the entire (!) time of the connection, not only by the real transfers, so it will be considerably lower than with programs which only measure real transfer times. You have to use a watch if you want to compare cps speeds between MD-2 and lying programs :-) - please note that the included button images are © by someone (not me), so you must not spread them. - SMTP send attempts to use ESMTP if available. Will currently send 8 bit mails even with normal ESMTP. If your ISP doesn't support a ESMTP-capable mail relay, get a real ISP :-) - Unlike other mail readers claiming to support MIME, MD-2 does the full range including decoding of x-uue/x-uuencoded and binhex40 encoded parts. Supports entity names. Will convert embedded uuencode/binhex in "old style" mails to "mime parts". Description of reader flags: First col: U = unread (seen, but not read) N = new, not yet seen = read Second col: D = deleted A = archived (will not expire) = normal (Note that A takes precedence over D) Third col: Non-Spool: R = Replied to F = Forwarded B = Replied to and forwarded Spool: M = already mailed out P = already posted S = already send and posted (aka completely send) Flaws in the MIME implementation: - Supports only "mixed" multipart types - Currently neither cares for nor creates "Content-MD5:" - Ignores charset entity and assumes iso-8859-1 (none of them are done by any other implementation besides MetaMail, so who cares :) ===================================================================== 0.37alpha --------- - serious change in prefs; old prefs files are ignored. - Subscribe/Unsubscribe menu items now work (begin of list processing) 0.39alpha --------- - removal of groups now works 0.40alpha --------- - started work on group parameter editor windows (GUI only; not yet functional) 0.43alpha --------- - group prefs still not really functional - started work on language prefs 0.45alpha --------- - added external prefs - language prefs now functional - group prefs still not really functional :-) 0.48alpha --------- - did some minor GUI work - group prefs now fully functional :-) 0.49alpha --------- - now shows number of subscribed and subscribeable groups 0.50alpha --------- - fixed internal buffer allocation scheme 0.51alpha --------- - group list now has a (experimental) button bar. This ought to be configurable and disableable :) in the future. - deleting of user created mail folders now works - added basic pop3/nntp operation 0.53alpha --------- - reworked grouplist GUI - nntpget now supports XOVER and STAT/NEXT (data is still discarded after receive) 0.54alpha --------- - added (nearly) full rfc-822 compliant address parsing (yes, it will actually accept "owagner"(Oliver Wagner)@"vapor"."com" :-) - added rfc-822 compliant date parsing [0.55 - 0.64 internal only] 0.65 ---- - old index files will no longer be read due to change in the static part of the mixinfo (yes, that's an alpha tester's life) - thread building now works fine - all the neat enforcer hits when opening a group are fixed now [0.66 internal only] 0.67 ---- - please delete Data/#?.IX and Data/Message?? for a clean database - fixed parsing of References: line and the reference information in the XOVER data. This caused thread building to not work properly in the former versions. - fixed various bugs in the graphical thread creation for the msglist 0.68 ---- - fixed switchting to empty groups - fixed memory management of message list - fixed various quirks in the GUI settings (including font settings) - improved listview refresh speed 0.69 ---- - fixed clicking into blank areas of msglist - added thread folding 0.70 ---- - folded threads now show the number of contained messages [total/new/unread] in the folded node [0.71 internal only] 0.72 ---- - fixed enforcer hits on early error bail out - folding of fake thread roots is now possible - folding states are now properly saved - began adding reader window (not functional yet, only layout) 0.73 ---- - fixed bogus adding of LFs to header lines when getting full articles. - added MIME parsing. - added basic read capabilities. 0.74 ---- - fixed a silly startup problem which involved overwriting bitmap bounds. 0.75 ---- - added reader quote colorization - fixed reader font selection - fixed about text 0.76 ---- - fixed handling of characters below WSP in message overview 0.77 ---- - now parses the semi-standard text styles *bold*, _underline_ and /italic/ - fixed calculation of message sizes when an ARTICLE was retrieved which already was in the messagebase. - several small fixes - added message header filtering, including prefs ("User interface...") 0.78 ---- - reworked header filter selection 0.79 ---- - now proplery shows message flags in reader - removed forced reset of article counters for groups - fixed resetting of horizontal scroller when swapping messages - XOVER start position was wrong, causing one message being repeadly downloaded as being new - "Get last 100" now works - XOVER scanning caused the wrong reference ID to be inserted into the list - reloaded fake nodes will no longer become "orphans" 0.80 ---- - recompiled with different compiler revision to hunt down 060 problems 0.81 ---- - compiled with "real" SAS/C 6.57 - will now set the tiny font to helvetica/9 if it's unset - added reader wordwrap (it's the cool way, too) - reader horiz size doesn't exceed 32767 pixels if wordwrap is turned off, thus not breaking virtgroup - added on-demand-getting of usenet messages not in the database. The NNTP link is cached and silently (re)opened on demand for maximum efficiency. Hey, doesn't this rule? 0.82 ---- - fixed wordwrap bug 0.83 ---- - did some GUI and menu cleanup 0.84 ---- - began to add button config; experimental still 0.85 ---- - Reader now reads the "To:" header if no "Newsgroups:" is present - completely rewrote database system using a client/server model, better caching and asynch I/O. Much faster than before and less impact on the user interface process. 0.86 ---- - will no longer make messages "seen" which were not seen by the user cause he never saw the updated index. - properly flushes write buffer when finishing a pop3 or nntp session. - Group editor caused enforcer madness upon creating a new group - Matchheader/Matchpattern/Defaultaddress weren't saved - Mail sorting into folders now works 0.87 ---- - now properly displays an error message if it's unable to read an article from the database or via get-on-demand - recognizes MIME encoded words in headers - correctly decodes Quoted-Printable encoding - rexxreplyport wasn't freed, causing signal loss in shell processes 0.88 ---- - button configuration system and display is now complete. Contents still suck :-) 0.89 ---- - rewrote ibutton class to use a standard IFF loader instead of datatypes (which proved to be unusable, again). Fixes startup crash on non V43-DT systems. - fixed db error message display - display of MIME parts caused the Y position to messed up 0.90 ---- - fixed XOVER parsing (which could cause a crash of the network thread) - fixed reader crash on subjects which were "too long" - fixed get-on-demand line flushing 0.91 ---- [that's 0.90 with less kprintf()] 0.92 ---- - reworked prefs in "MUI single window" style. Now fits on 640x200/topaz.8, too. Not quite finished yet - added Tip Of The Day startup window 0.93 ---- - prefs window is now completely functional 0.94 ---- - get-on-demand reopened the server connect for every article, even if the link was still up - fixed button config for initial window - fixed "Get last 100 messages" for new groups - began to work on the send window. Including of text and attachments works, so does dropping of WB icons. 0.95 ---- - added "Advanced Settings" to the send requester - fixed dropping of Icons on the editor view - included new textview.mcc - added "advanced settings" to send requester 0.96 ---- - prefs list now has icons - included new textview.mcc - "Signature prefs" fixed - added address book window 0.97 ---- [lost track of changes] 0.98 ---- - fixed a few quirks in the prefs window layout - sending mail and news now works - fixed updating of group list overview counts when getting news and mail 0.99 ---- - fixed enforcer orgy on sending mails - fixed not resetting of reader scroller top position when loading a new message 0.100 ----- - fixed own messages not being stored in the correct mail folder - delete of messages (via DEL key) now works - viewing of mime parts now works (currently hardwired to calling Sys:Utilities/MultiView) 0.101 ----- - fixed buttons not being updated after prefs close - (E)SMTP sending now works - fixed state messup in binhex decoding 0.102 ----- - fixed getting of next unsent mails returning totally bogus stuff, causing mails to not be send - fixed db_loadheader() reading a bogus blank line (which caused X-Mailer: to appear in the mail body insead of the header) 0.103 ----- - fixed updating of windows when a mail was written or send out - fixed database deadlock on pop3get when a mail download was skipped because the mail was already in the database - removed kprintf() from IP handling code 0.104 ----- - added full "Single window only?" mode. Note that this requires MUI 3.7. MD-2 will still run with 3.6 but using this mode causes messup® - added »TRASH folder - group list is now checked for required entries on every load 0.105 ----- - Adding groups with Groupmanager caused deadlock in 0.104. Dunno why, probably a problem with recompilation and methods changed. - fixed excess closing/reopening of reader window in single window mode when the bottom border is already extended 0.106 ----- - lame bug: folders which had no filtering rules at all set matched all mails - now properly drops deleted mails when saving group indexes 0.107 ----- - no longer sets the tiny font to helvetica/9 even if it's already set 0.108 ----- - folder matching is now a full substring match - Reply/Followup (by menu item) now works 0.109 ----- - added "Move To Folder" GUI (not functional yet) - did some minor code and catalog cleanup work 0.110 ----- - fixed adding of quote text in the wrong direction 0.111 ----- - fixed messing of first button entry in prefs - added "Delete mail from server" option 0.112 ----- - auto-expire of messages now works - made Select All/Deselect All work - fixed saving of Window mode selection 0.113 ----- - buttons now send their "action" rexx string - button hotkeys now work - button prefs action string now has a popup containing all internal rexx commands - did some internal code cleanup - the Save/View buttons in the message reader now work like the Save/View buttons under the mime part listview - reader window now recognizes URLs, enabling click. Will be send to Voyager (if running) or with a SendBrowser.MDRX script similiar to the AmIRC one. - now extends bottom window border if started in single window mode; avoids reopening of window when hitting the reader the first time. - enabling/disabling of menu items now works properly upon switching windows - Reply and associated functions now work from within the reader window, too - added the first set of ARexx commands (use the popup list in button prefs to see the list) 0.114 ----- - Return-Receipt: is now off by default - Signature now defaults to "None", too, in blank mails - fixed alignment of URL highliting object, also doesn't create two objects for links which are http://www. - no longer sorts »TRASH (will not work with existing group lists yet, for internal reasons. Fix underway) 0.115 ----- - fixed enforcer hits upon opening the reader window - it's now possible to use "-" in folder names - synchronous message download now has a info window and abort facility - upon MIME SAVE, the filename of the wrong part was inserted (or bullshit if the message had only one MIME part) - sorting of mails into folders again was hosed sometimes - finally fixed group list sorting - the "New message" menu item is now available in the group overview window, too 0.116 ----- - reader crashed when trying to read a non-existant mail which had to be obtained via NNTP - no longer puts a silly requester up when it was unable to load a message, but simply shows the error inside the reader 0.117 ----- - URL list class caused poolwatch hits - fixed enabling/disabling of message menu items again 0.118 ----- - Mime save part counting was broken again 0.119 ----- - Rexx commands didn't work at all. In fact, the command table was never made available to MUI... 0.120 ----- - POP3 status now shows "deleting", too - fixed saving of message indices on QUIT - POP3 no longer takes stack nonsense as data when hitting a mail which is missing required headers (i.e. missing Subject: from THOR) - POP3 now does a quick scan with TOP to decide when to actually start downloading POP3 messages. Improves performance in "Don't delete on server" mode by magnitudes. - silly bug in memory pool handling caused the same pool to be accessed from the main and from the network threads, potentially causing havoc galore. Now properly semaphore protected. - "Read on demand" now buffers the last downloaded mail in memory to avoid superfluous write-to-db/rescan/read-from-db cycle. Also avoids flushing of DB write buffers. Major speed improvement in online news mode 0.121 ----- - SPOOL index is now saved when a send session ends, to better prevent against crashes causing flag losses. - News posting now works. PLEASE, test this extensivly with test groups before sending something to "real" UseNet. Thanks. 0.122 ----- - Get-on-demand window now uses normal sized instead of tiny fonts - database now uses a full index buffer if memory for that is available, for overally better performance 0.123 ----- - Fixed generation of "Re:" for reply subjects - "External edit" in new message window didn't werk - replies/followups didn't had any reference ID header set, nor where they added with a proper reference ID to the indexes, thus not being properly added to the thread trees - crashed on obnoxiously long quoted printable lines with soft line breaks created by mail readers which like to heavily violate good style. 0.124 ----- - Reply/Forward caused total trash to be inserted into the mailheader, thus breaking nearly everything - fixed crash on very long lines containing tabs - no longer attempts to convert fido style text formating to recognized signatures - fixed yet another potential crash on very long text lines - crashing when trying to read a article not in the database and with inactive TCP/IP stack 0.125 ----- - addded drag&drop from addressbook into new message window - added popup address list for To/Cc/Bcc buttons - included new textview class version 0.126 ----- - finally fixed crash on long quoted-printable "lines" (aka paragraphs) - fixed crash related to db write buffering (reading article a, then b, then back a caused a nuke in online mode) 0.127 ----- - added APOP pop3 authentication - the "tiny" adressbook windows used in the new msg requester now have no edit gadgets 0.128 ----- - now uses UIDL (if available) to obtain a list of new messages in pop3 mailbox. Major speed increase when getting mails with "Leave mail on server" mode. - added write buffer for index writes 0.129 ----- - fixed excess updating of group overview during NNTP get 0.130 ----- - "Significant headers" preference window lost contents upon page flips - MIME decoder now recognizes "name" definition in Content-Type: - fixed Save/View screwup in the mime part view (again) 0.131 ----- - fixed display of groups without comment (bogus chars) - fixed behavior of the address list popup in the new message window - added a group list popup for the new message window 0.132 ----- - "New message" is now much more intelligent in how it presets To/Groups fields, depending which is the active window when selected - implemented "Fold" msg menu item - added several new internal ARexx commands (see button prefs for list) - included proper versions of textview.mcc and .mcp 0.133 ----- - new message window is an appwindow again so that WB icons can be dropped on it - fixed handling of "Followup-To: poster" 0.134 ----- - fixed "Delete" menu item (and rexx command) to also work from within the reader - added "Archive" menu item (and rexx command) - included new version of textview.mcc/.mcp 0.135 ----- - URL detector now recognizes mailto: URLs - now forces ARexx port to "On" regardless what MUI prefs say - command popup list now puts commands in 'ticks' - the "menu emulation" rexx commands didn't work at all 0.136 ----- - fixed SMTP/NNTP send gauge - no longer dumps Return-Receipt: header in SMTP send - Quote headers now work. See bubble help of buttons for description. 0.137 ----- - removed follow up header (pointless) - now sends "MODE READER" before trying to POST stuff (in case accidentally connecting to a INN nntpd instead of nnrpd) - no longer attempts header decode when no Mime-Version: is present in a mail header (thanks to YAM) - fixed potential crash with broken header encoding (thanks to YAM) 0.138 ----- - url links now have a short help message attached to them - did some work on the "forward" GUI (not functional yet) - posted messages had no reference field in the index (only) and therefore weren't properly sorted into thread trees 0.139 ----- - added new button preset config - made button shorthelp bubble more descriptive (hotkey, command) 0.140 ----- - added "add to address book" menu item - fixed screwed default icon prefs - fixed lame problem in header matching (actually, contents where matched regardless of the header selected) 0.141 ----- - "Delete" didn't work from buttons or menu - default prefs for "Forward" was broken ("Forward*ed*SelectMsgs" instead of "ForwardSelectMsgs") - now recognizes X-Face: header and displays accordingly in message reader - implemented Goto Next/Prev menu items and arexx commands - button shortcut keys were broken again - added "AddToAddressbook" arexx command 0.142 ----- - fixed "DEL" in message reader - added correctly colored icon files - began to rework "new message" window (attachments section currently not active) - "external edit" button finally works 0.143 ----- - missing "UIDL" support in the pop server caused a error message, instead of silent fallback - "Signature" is now on the "Text" page of the new msg window - fixed serious bug in Single Window mode causing MD-2 to think any commands etc. still going to a previously open "read" or "folder list" window - progress bars in send status window now work properly, both count and size - fixed network status window opening on the wrong screen sometimes 0.144 ----- - language names weren't stored in prefs - button prefs caused enforcer hits under certain circumstances 0.145 ----- - button prefs caused enforcer hits under certain circumstances (again) - single window mode still crashed when going back to main window 0.146 ----- - uuencoding now uses 0644 protection mask - new attachment system now works - header parser screwed on folded header lines 0.147 ----- - fixed WB drag&drop support for the attachment listview - attachment's MIME types are now be freely settable - header parser screwed on folded header lines (even worse than before, too :) - "Move to folder" command was dysfunctional 0.148 ----- - Getting News/Mail in single window mode caused enforcer hits - "new msg window" now switches to attachment page when an attachment is added - fixed TipOfTheday display 0.149 ----- - disabled TipOfTheDay completely - fixed preset of "CheckMailNews SEND" button - added a few more ARexx commands 0.150 ----- - removed obsolete "Editor" prefs item - added parsing of NC preset prefs (NC version only) - "ReadSelected" command/menuitem now works - fixed Forward "One by One" mode 0.151 ----- - fixed behavior of Goto NEXT/PREV in msglist - attachment section of new message window now has a "View attachment" button (double clicking an entry will do the same, too) - Fold/AddToAddressbook no longer screw message flags - "Move to folder" now works properly 0.152 ----- - included new version of TextView mcc class (1.14) - inserting/uuencoding of text is now done in "quiet" mode - fixed potential crash in the network window object due to race conditions - textview external editor temp files now always have extension ".mdt" - "view attachment" buttons is now properly enabled/disabled 0.153 ----- - fixed saving of uudecoded "MIME parts" - several small cosmetic cleanups - added bogus "PrintSelectedMessages" command, which triggers a NYI requester - fixed sending of combined news/mail messages - no longer leaves To:, Cc: and Bcc: headers in posted news - now properly strips Bcc: from mail headers during send 0.154 ----- - fixed crash with check/send mail/news in multi window mode 0.155 ----- - added "You've got new mail" requester - fixed Signature preset in new mail window 0.156 ----- - image mime types in new message send are now determined by file extension to avoid clashes with broken datatypes 0.157 ----- - fixed parsing of folded header lines in second stage MIME part header parsing in db engine - added new revision of textview.mcc 0.158 ----- - message overview now uses graphics icons to show flags 0.159 ----- - Newmsg window "followup" button now popups the group list - fixed scrolling problem introduced in 0.158 - now properly sets "Replied to" flag after replying to a message - fake root nodes were created with messed up date, thus breaking the thread sort order 0.160 ----- - fixed major crash when replying to a mail (due to flag setting) - fixed enforcer hits when trying to read a fake root node - no longer opens a bogus reader window when trying to read a fake root 0.161 ----- - sending of new message caused an attempt to set the Replied flag of the message with Message-Id: "" - attempt to setflag the flags of a message which doesn't exist in the database caused full crash - added new "MailImport" Arexx command which allows to import complete rfc-822 complete mails into the database. Even works with BSD style uumail: mailbox files seperated by rmail "From ..." headers. "MailImport filename GROUP/K", where group can be a group name to sort into. If left off, normal header parsing is applied to find the appropriate folder to sort into. 0.162 ----- - "Posted" and "Mailed" icons were swapped - added support for range selection in group and message lists: CTRL-click will select the full range from last active to click position - the custom "by subject" concatanation of dangling articles now does a full match instead of a substring match, to avoid having messages with subjects like "V sucks" and "V" to be merged into the same thread - saving of message parts sometimes intefered with write buffering - minimum subject length calculation was hosed 0.163 ----- - fixed a lame bug in "MailImport" command -- messages where stored with the around the MessageId to the database thus causing them to not be found when accessed 0.164 ----- - completely rewrote database system (again) 0.165 ----- - storing of messages to the database speed up - cleaned up gauge display during mail download - fixed gauge display when sending out messages - reworked async I/O routines for correct word alignment on 32 bit CPU machines - sending of messages no longer ignores abort 0.166 ----- - improved caching of toolbar images. Switch from group to list to reader screens are much faster now. - added "GotoMsg NEXTNEW/S,PREVNEW/S" switches to jump to the next/previous NEW message - added "GotoMsg NEXTUNREAD/S,PREVUNREAD/S" switches to jump to the next/previous UNREAD message - fixed serious bug in setting up toolbar hotkeys; previous window notifications weren't removed on a window switch and therefore accumulated, causing all kind of nifty side effects from full crashes up to multiple reactions to keys - fixed handling of uuencoded messages which had no actual textual part 0.167 ----- - speed up loading of group indeces a bit - NNTP-on-demand died heavily when hitting a line longer than 512 chars - fixed several bugs in the message parser - uudecode now correctly handles end markers, instead of adding bogus data to the output file. Also properly deals with multiple uudecoded parts inside a message now - spool group index is now saved after sending a mail to avoid index loss on a crash - "Archived" flag wasn't honored at all - message list displayed message sizes which were MBytes as "G" instead of "M" - Control-keyrange selecting caused display messup when one of the to be selected lines was outside of the window 0.168 ----- - pop3 download status bar was totally hosed - sending of new messages encoded attachments as base64 even for plain text - message reader now displays text which is base64 encoded properly, instead of showing the encoded data 0.169 ----- - fixed presetting of group signatures and headers - now uses pophotkey.mcc (if available) to offer easier settings of command button hotkeys - writes to messagebase are a bit faster now again - "MailImport" now recognizes "GROUP=none" to import to the database only without creating indices 0.170 ----- - major speedup when closing the groupmanager window (no longer frees every entry, but instead relies on the pool being disposed) - fixed bug in MailImport hitting a line which starts with "From " which is not a mail introduction - fixed enforcer hits when doing mail operations within an empty message list 0.171 ----- - Ok, ok, I suck, but this time, it's fixed: Preseting Of Signature Now Works 0.172 ----- - added database compress function - fixed a problem with not properly recognizing the end of a uudecoded section - "CheckMailNews SEND" command didn't work at all 0.173 ----- - fixed another pretty lame bug in the uudecoder which liked to show up at certain chunk sizes - added "SelectAll" and "UnselectAll" Arexx commands - fixed "GotoMsg PREV" - database compress forgot to unlock a lock on the datadir - database compressor thread now only uses half of the previous stack size - only the first page of the button prefs actually used the pophotkey class