W i n N E T M a i l (TM) Copyright (c) 1992, 1993, 1994 by Computer Witchcraft, Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Release Notes: WinNET Mail and News v2.05 * Enhancements to Reply functions: software now correctly picks up multiple recipients in either the From: or CC: fields and optionally allows users to respond to all or to just the original author. * Various additional header changes for better compatibility with other mail systems and software. * Additional configurability for uucp version of software. Release Notes: WinNET Mail and News v2.04 * Extended chat script and changed syntax. INITIATE statement modified. Support for adding delay character. Removed complex true/false syntax. * From_ line syntax changed to bang-path style * Problem fixed which caused changing system name not to be updated in chat.rc * Address book fixed so that 1024 bytes of addresses work properly, rather than causing runtime error. Release Notes: WinNET Mail and News v2.03 * Extended chat script syntax INITIATE statement added. * Emits standard From_ field in mail headers. * Various mulitple version intergration enhancements. Release Notes: WinNET Mail and News v2.02 * Queue Editor bug that caused RUNTIME error when during "Recycle" operation fixed. * Time Zones corrected relative to GMT for US Time Zones. * chat.rc script file added for systems that require customization of login procedures. * International version integration support. * Bug fixed which caused setup to be unable to write setup files to the correct directory when application is copied to a new drive or path. * Word-wrap now default to on setting as "factory default." * Support for European keyboards enhanced. * Changed name of default, catch-all newsgroup from "news.bad.or.stale" to "news.not.subscribed.to" to avoid misleading user. * Bug fixed which caused articles posted to a group that is not locally subscribed to to be posted twice in 'new.bad.or.stale'. Articles now post just once to 'news.not.subscribed.to' and a dialog box tells user that the article will post ok on the network. * When a user cancels subscription to a group and articles arrive on the system for a group that is subscribed to but which are also crossposted to the canceled group, the articles now post only to subscribed to groups. * Fixed problem which could result in failure to post articles properly if spaces occur in a list of news groups in the Newsgroups: field of header. Program now eliminates any spaces. Release Notes: WinNET Mail and News v2.01 STD version * Communications program timings adjusted. * News subscription hang problems resolved. Release Notes: WinNET Mail and News v2.00 * Documentation completed for News subsystems of program. * Documentation completed for Cleanup program. * Documentation completed for Queue Editor. * Bug fixed which caused long aliases to sometimes fail when posting mail. * Maximum User Name length changed from 8 to 10 chars. * Forwarding mail when running a background search no longer causes a GPF. * Time Zone settings incorporated into setup process rather than requiring user to set an environment variable in autoexec.bat file. Release Notes: WinNET Mail and News v1.60U (Update) July 11, 1992 Bug Fixes: * When news/copy, news/copy thread functions are used, the cursor no longer dissapears. * News archiving "high water mark" now resets properly when all articles in a newsgroup are removed with cleanup (by setting a parameter of 0 days, or a low enough parameter to succeed in removing all articles in a news group). * Bug fixed in News/Search which would cause searches across "ALL" newsgroups to fail. * Bug fixed in News/Search which sometimes caused the Next Item function to behave erratically. * Bug fixed which caused 2 character system names to be rejected by setup program. * More stable edition of mailman.exe program which is less prone to runtime failures and GPFs. * Updated edition of QUEUE EDITOR which once again properly recognizes and processes news article postings. * Fixed bug which sometimes causes general protection faults when opening news folders. * Fixed minor bug which sometimes incorrectly fails to show number of lines in a news article. Release Notes: Version 1.60B June 30, 1993 __ Main Program__ * WinNET now has a context sensitive toolbar, with mail and news contexts. In the mail context, the toolbar sports the following buttons: Print Call Inbox Folders Compose Reply Forward Delete Move Previous Message Next Message News Cascade When the News button is clicked (or a news related window is opened), the toolbar switches to the news context, which has the following buttons: Print Call Inbox (to move back to mail context) Reply Forward Post Follow-Up Copy Mark Previous Message Next Message News Cascade * New functions have been added to the main program, including: - A Previous Message function that works in both mail and news to move to prior messages. - A Copy Thread option is available on the news menu that allows the user to highlight any article in a thread and copy the entire thread from the news hierarchy to to a mail folder. - Search functions similar to those in mail have been extended to work for news as well. - The Queue Editor is now a WinNET menu choice (and has an accelarator key as well -- Ctrl+Q) - The preface "In article , User Name (address) writes:" is now automatically supplied by the follow-up command. Additional Program Modifications: * The following accelarator keys have been added as an aid to more efficient operation of the program: Close Ctrl+Hyphen (this closes any open window) InBox Ctrl+Shift+I Mail Sent Folder Ctrl+S Folder List Ctrl+L Next Item Ctrl+N Previous Item Ctrl+L Reply to Ctrl+R Forward Ctrl+F Move Item Ctrl+Shift+M Copy Item Ctrl+Shift+0 Address Book Ctrl+B (changed from Ctrl+A) Queue Editor Ctrl+Q Follow-up Ctrl+U News Group List Ctrl+Shift+L Mark Seen Ctrl+X Tile Ctrl+T Cascade Ctrl+Spacebar Word-wrap toggle Ctrl+W * A preference dialog item has been added -- Hide Old Articles -- that, when set, causes articles previously seen to be suppressed from appearing in news group folders. * The operation of the Mark Seen function has been changed as follows: From the news viewer window, closes the window. From a news group folder, marks the currently highlighted item as read and advances one item. From the news group list, marks all articles in the currently highlighted newsgroup read en mass. * Added support for detaching binary files directly from system editor (previously, detach was only available from the the mail composition or news posting editors). * The cursor now changes to an hour glass in during several lengthy operations where previously it did not (such as when closing a mail folder with many deleted items). * When the user enters a comma in an address book name, this is now detected by the program -- the user is warned about doing this, and the program explains to the user that the comma has been automatically changed to a semi-colon. * Some minor changes have been made to tab order and default buttons in address book dialog to make operations here more intuitive. * The functioning of the Next Item button has been changed to close the viewer window when transitioning from a new mail or news article to one that has been previously seen, so that the user knows he/she has moved out of the sequence of new material. * Added support for adding the Lines: line to headers of articles created by WinNET. * Status of News Posts are not returned unless there is a problem. (Return status on *failure* only). * The File/Close function now works for *any* WinNET window and added accelerator hey (Ctrl+Hyphen) that allows user to easily move out of any window without using the mouse. * The size of the Select Folder dialog box has been enlarged for so user's with many folders defined can select a folder more easily. * Various minor menu modifications. Main program BUG fixes: * Fixed bug where Move Item would re-load same item if cancel pressed on dialog box. * Fixed bug where move operation from Mail Sent folder doesn't recall previous move folder as default. Fixed same bug in "Copy" operation. * Fixed bug which caused attached files with certain permission settings not to be recognized by the detach binary mail command. * Fixed editor bug that would not allow mousing down lines when caret postioned at last line of the document. * Fixed bug where closing a window when that window was the only remaining window left its status line below. Now, the status line clears completely. * Fixed bug where "opening folder xxx, please be patient" shows in the status line area when user clicks the InBox button when the Inbox is already open. * Made viewers less "sensitive" to detection of control characters in text files to prevent them from being classified as binary (this leads to new line characters showing up as blocks on the screen and loss of formatting of articles that sometimes are posted to clarinet groups that have tron/troff control characters. * Preferences dialog box minor cosmetic cleanup. * When new mail arrives in mailbox, previously highlighted selection is now properly retained. * Fixed a bug that caused the Lines: line of the incoming header to be improperly parsed as blank if the number of lines: is less than 10. * Fixed a bug in system editor related to saving files with the default name of "noname". When files are saved for the first time, the save file dialog box would allow the user to rename the file something more distinctive than "noname". However, the new name selected given by the user would not be refelected in the window title or status bar. Now these areas are properly updated. __Cleanup Program__ * The cleanup program now has a full Windows "user interface"; it is now controlled with buttons and dialog boxes. * Support for archiving newsgroups, on an individual basis. * Improved cooperative multi-tasking. * Settings retained from session to session. * The program can now be aborted in mid-session, without damage to news database, and without loss of state information. * The Cleanup "Days" parameter is now interpreted as >= days rather than > days, to avoid confusion and to allow deleting _all_ news by using a parameter of 0. __Mail Man Program__ * Better fault tolerance * Better cooperative multi-tasking. * Improved parsing of non-RFC headers. __Queue Editor program__ * New, and improved... Release Notes: May 16, 1993 WinNET v1.53B - Added support for parsing of certain non-standard news article headers. - Setup now adds "Cleanup News" icon properly to Program Manager Folder. - Other minor bug fixes. Release Notes: March 5, 1993 WinNET v1.52B - Fixed bugs in Subscriptions dialog box that caused system to hang and or spool numerous spurious files under certain circumstances. - Added "Copy to Folder" function for copying news articles from news database hierarchy to mail folder of user's choice. Release Notes: February 9, 1993 WinNET v1.51B - Fixed bug that would cause Reply function to hang occassionally. - Fixed bug in UUCICO that caused input to be lost on receive file synchonization errors. Release Notes: January 31, 1992 Version 1.50B - Added comphrehensive support for Usenet News Groups. - Cleanup program for pruning news articles. - New Mail Queue editor provides interface to mail queue. - Fix to problem on some systems with font size problem. - Setup program modified to require correct length system and login ids. - Program changed so that it finds startup directory dynamically, rather than from data base file, so that it can be moved from system to system, or to a different disk, more easily. - Added disk space checking to communication's program. Release Notes: November 28, 1992 Version 1.02 - Routines that open, delete, and move messages changed so that the next message in the current folder is loaded into the currently open window, rather than destroying the currently open window and recreating with the new message. - UUCICO (WinNET Communications Program) modified so that it allows up to 100 seconds to connect with CWI server. This helps support international calling. November 12, 1992 Version 1.01 This release fixes some minor bugs in the account and setup programs, and also bugs with the alias dialog box. November 1, 1992 Version 1.0 Orignal release