On 18/01/2003, wurzel wrote:

>> MD2 is a nice program, it is a shame there are so many bugs in it.
> 
> I wouldn't say there were MANY bugs :))

The problem is more that it has several glaringly obvious bugs that are
noticed in daily usage.

The list so far is:
- References: header gets too long
- Various headers are removed/reset when editing messages
- Crashing when replying (as per my email)
- X-Faces not importing
- Accounts cannot be deleted

Older ones which may be fixed now, but I haven't tested:
- Use seperate message window can't be selected
- ARexx menu item number 2 (or is it three?) doesn't work properly
- A cancelled newsgroup message causes the entire newsgroup to be downloaded
- Mail download manager problems
- Filters do not work on news
- > Does anyone notice whether the latest verion now checks for new emails
- > regularly? Mine doesn't APPEAR to :(

There are also a bunch of improvements I would like to see, including:
- More/better ARexx commands
- An option to update the newsgroup list with new groups, rather than having
to download the whole thing (and show only the newly downloaded groups, as
well as all)
- Support SummertimeGuard (or similar - hopefully OS4 will include DST
functions/switching) to switch DST at the correct time
- Support different character sets (OS4 has functions implemented to switch
the font charset, which will make this very easy once the NDK and OS is
available :))
- Add an option to download only posts since xx/xx/xx - empty newsgrop get
the option of "all" or "last 100", but sometimes you want just the last few
days, especially if you have lost all the posts for some reason or been
away.

I would rather the existing bugs were fixed first though.  I have probably
missed some, but most of the above have been known about for years.

Chris


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