Dear PowerMail list members,
We are pleased to announce the availability of PowerMail 5.2 beta 1.
This private release, containing 4 key features, 9 enhancements and 27
fixes, is currently only intended for members of the PowerMail-discuss
and PowerMail-testing lists (PowerMail 5.2 final will be a free update
for PowerMail 5 owners) and is available from:
<http://powermail.simplenet.com/pm5.2b1.dmg>
Note: Please make a backup of your existing PowerMail
database before using 5.2, as the file format has
changed and will NOT be openable with 5.1 after
conversion. Although the features below have been tested
for six weeks both at CTM and within Apple Computer,
proceed with caution as with any beta software.
Release notes are included below. Kindly report your findings back to the
PowerMail-testing mailing list exclusively; to be able to post, first:
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Best regards,
the PowerMail team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CTM Development <http://www.ctmdev.com>
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> POWERMAIL 5.2b1 RELEASE NOTES - APRIL 3rd, 2005
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Features
* PowerMail now supports the searching of its database using
SpotLight (requires Mac OS X 10.4 build 8A25 or later) in addition to
its built-in, enhanced FoxTrot search engine:
o If you double-click on a found item in Spotlight, it will not just
open it as an orphaned document window in PowerMail but actually
open the corresponding message in the database itself.
o For user who have one or more inactive (archive) databases, open
them with PowerMail 5.2 and reindex them; you will see that all of
your current and archived mail can be searched in one go using
Spotlight, whether or not the message is contained in your current
mail database.
* Support for secure transport on SMTP, POP3 and IMAP4 using the StartTLS
command (connection on the same port) in addition to specific SSL port
connections
o For STMP, this can now be configured both on a per-account basis
as well as for all accounts in the Mail Schedulings?Ķ: Location
setup pane
* Added the ability to export tabulated text in Unicode UTF-8 format,
i.e. for exporting international text to recent vversions of FileMaker
Pro
* The Spam filtering architecture adds integration with Intego Personal
Antispam
Improvements and tweaks
* Times are now displayed relatively to the current time zone, but using
the daylight saving time in effect at that time. This means that a
message sent at 12:00 when Daylight Savings Time (DST) was not active
will continue to be displayed as sent at 12:00 when you look at it days
or months later when DST is active; if you however travel and change
time zones, the message will no longer appear as sent at 12:00
* Upon marking a spam message as good, its attachments are nowmoved out
of the trash.
* When creating multiple mail filters with a "spam rating" condition, you
can now adjust a slider to have different actions for messages with
different spam levels. Note that when using SpamSieve, it is highly
recommended that you treat messages with a spam rating greater than or
equal to 50 as spam, and the other as good, and that you use the mark
as good/mark as spam commands when SpamSieve makes mistakes, so it can
learn from them. Additionally, note that having multiple filters with a
"spam rating" condition can make the spam filter assistant to not
behave as expected, that's why a warning dialog will be displayed in
such cases
* When evaluating the "From/Sender/Reply To is not in address book" (or
"is not in previous recipients") filter, a message whose sender is your
own address (the one set in the account of the message) is now treated
as if the address were not in the address book (or the previous
recipients) gien than some spammers send messages using your own
address for the "From" field.
* The message list can now be scrolled horizontally using mice or
trackpads with horizontal scroll control (two-finger scrolling with the
appropriate extension installed)
* A new method is used to determine when the computer is connected to the
network; this may fix some difficultes when PowerMail tried to connect
immediately after wake-up
* We now allow a fresh 30-day evaluation period for those who had let an
earlier PowerMail evaluation period expire
* When creating the "Mail" folder in the user's home folder, we now set
its permissions as readable by the owner only (it was previously set to
be writable by the user only, but readable by the group). The
permission is not changed if the "Mail" folder already exists, or if
your database already exists in another location
* Updated the version of SpamSieve on the disk image to 2.2.4
Fixes
* AppleScripts that were previously stored inside the application package
are now stored in the user's Application Support folder; this should
prevent access privilege problems:
o when the user has no write access to the application
o for scripts that need to save persistent variables
o for scripts that need to save aliases to other applications (such
as SpamSieve integration scripts)
* An error of type "Class='file'; what=100; when=4; err=-47" could occur
when receiving or sending attachments, when certain antivirus software
(notably from Symantec) were installed
* PowerMail sometimes pretended that there is not enough free space on
the disk to compact the database
* A crash could sometimes happen when importing a message whose size was
an exact multiple of 4096 bytes
* An error could occur when exporting the database with the attachments
included, and some attachments are not found.
* Fixed a drawing problem for messages contains end of lines in the
subject; it was also possible to send such messages when pasting text
in the subject field
* Some received messages could be marked as addressed "To" when in fact
they were really of "BCC"
* When the notifications preferences are set to open the Recent Mail
window without bringing it to the front, the front window no longer
looses the keyboard focus
* A crash could occur when quitting PowerMail if no mail browser, folder
list or message window was opened.
* It was not possible to export the database unless the mail browser
window was opened
* When replying to a message, the header "references" is now properly set
according to the latest RFC specifications.
* The message-ID header was not correctly generated when using a SMTP
port other than 25
* PowerMail now accurately decodes MIME attachments with a uuencode, uue,
or x-uue encoding (in addition to the more standard x-uuencode). It can
also decode non-conformant uuencoded attachments missing the "begin"
line
* Upon exporting, read messages were ignored in folders in "View unread"
mode
* When forwarding or redirecting a draft message, the message would its
draft status
* When an HTML message was displayed, the mouse wheel did not work in
other panes or windows, notable overlying windows
* An SMTP connection could hang when the SMTP server rejected a message
after having received the DATA command (for example, if it rejects it
because of a virus)
* When a sent attachment is on a disconnected network volume or an
offline disk, PowerMail no longer tries to mount the volume when
displaying the message, nor when compacting or checking the database
* When a folder is viewed using the "view unread" mode, the status bar
more clearly indicates this fact by showing both the number of messages
displayed, and the total number of messages in the folder
* Copying the subject of a message from the message list, and pasting it
to the view only field, did not work
* When performing "retrieve completely now" on a partial message opened
in its own window, the window was left empty.
* A crash could occur when upload a message to an IMAP server
* It was impossible to export the database unless the mail browser window
was opened
* When the notifications preferences are set to open the recent mail
window without bringing it to the front, the front window no longer
looses the keyboard focus
* PowerMail could erroneously pretend that there is not enough free space
on the disk to compact the database - especially when approaching the
2-gigabyte limit for databases
* An error could occur when exporting the database with the attachments
included if some attachments could not be found.
* Some exceptions and errors were reported as unknown errors, instead of
giving the more detailed information that we are accustomed to
reporting
