Organization: Pegasus Mail, Dunedin, New Zealand
X-Pmrqc:      1
Priority: normal
X-Mailer:     Pegasus Mail v2.3 (R6).
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.novell
Date:         Sun, 20 Dec 1992 18:36:10 GMT+1200
Reply-To:     Novell LAN Interest Group <NOVELL@SUVM.BITNET>
From:         David Harris <DAVID@PMAIL.GEN.NZ>
Subject:      PMail/Mac v2.0.2 released

Pegasus Mail version 2.0.2 for the Macintosh has been released, and is
now available from risc.ua.edu (130.160.4.7), as

            /pub/network/pegasus/pmmac202.hqx

It will be available from the following sites later this week:

      omnigate.clarkson.edu
      tyr.let.rug.nl         (European users)

As an experiment, it is available to NEW ZEALAND SITES ONLY from

      urania.pmail.gen.nz (192.156.225.16)

If you are NOT a New Zealand site, please do NOT use this service: the
link is very slow, and charged according to volume. If I find that non-
New Zealand sites are accessing urania, I will remove the service.

To unpack PMMAC202.HQX, you will require a Macintosh application capable
of dealing with BinHex files, such as BinHex 4.0, Compact Pro, or Stuffit
Classic. The .HQX file unpacks to a self-extracting archive.

------------ What's new in PMail/Mac 2.0.2 --------------------

PMail 2.0.2 should be considerably more reliable than 2.0.1; while I
have not as yet completely eliminated the System Error 25 problem noted
in the file "Important Release Note" supplied in this archive, I have
largely worked around it. I now believe it to be related to an
optimization problem in ThinkC v5 and am attempting to find a long term
fix.


Other additions or changes in this release:

*   A message count indicator now appears in mailboxes.

*   A new command has been added to the File menu - "Read new mail",
which is accelerated by pressing Cmd-R. This command will open the new
mail folder, or if the folder is open, it will make it the frontmost
window and force it to rescan for new mail.

*   PMail/Mac will now recognize system-wide folders and lists: they
must be located in the directory named for system-wide address books
using "General Setup" in PMail Config. Note that PMail/Mac will simply
ignore any entry for another list in a system-wide list if the entry is
in PMail/PC format (that is, @filename). To nest lists with PMail/Mac,
you should use the long name of the list enclosed in smart quotes.
PMail/PC version 2.35 and later will ignore Macintosh list names, so it
is safe to include both formats in a system-wide list.

*   Reply-to-all: A new option has been added to the reply dialog which
allows you to send a reply to everyone who received the original
message. PMail does this by creating a distribution list with the name
"Temporary list", which will subsequently appear in the distribution
list selector, and may be deleted if no longer desired. Note that using
reply to all will result in you receiving a copy of the message
yourself, since you were one of the original recipients.

*   The behaviour of the Shift and Cmd keys has changed in lists: the
Shift key now allows disjoint selections, while the Cmd key now does a
range selection. This change has been widely requested, although the
opposite behaviour is what Apple recommend,  and in fact is the default
behaviour of the Mac List Manager toolbox routines.

*   New keywords in lists: you can use a number of new keywords in
distribution lists to control the behaviour of the list. Keywords appear
on their own on a line, and always start with a single '\' character at
the start of the line. While this mechanism is not very Macintosh-like,
I couldn't think of any way of doing it that was... The new keywords are
as follows:

    \CC   all addresses following this line will be placed in the
    message's CC field

    \BCC all addresses following this line will be placed in the
    message's BCC field

    \TO   all addresses following this line will be placed in the
    message's TO field

You can use \CC, \BCC and \TO as many times as you wish in a
list - the effect is cumulative.

    \READING Y or N - if Y, then the "request confirmation of reading
    flag in the message is set, otherwise it is cleared.

    \DELIVERY Y or N - if Y, then the "request confirmation of delivery"
    flag in the message is set, otherwise it is cleared.

    \URGENT Y or N - if Y, then the urgent flag for the message is set,
    otherwise it is cleared.

    \NOSIG Y or N - if Y, then no signature will be appended to the
    message, otherwise it will be.

As well, several minor parsing bugs have been fixed, and general
performance improved.


Missing from this release:
-------------------------------------------------

I had hoped to implement new mail filtering rules (a la PMail/PC) and
forms handling, but pressure of time has made this impossible. The next
release of PMail/Mac will be in March or April 1993, and will support the
following:

    * Forms
    * Basic MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) support
    * Resizable windows
    * User-defined gateway support (a la PMail/PC)
    * A built-in POP3 transport for sites with MacTCP
    * Newmail filtering rules
    * A more attractive user-interface.

Bug reports and suggestions to david@pmail.gen.nz (or from CompuServe,
>internet:david@pmail.gen.nz).

Cheers!

-- David Harris --

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