Organization: Pegasus Mail, Dunedin, New Zealand
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Priority: normal
X-Mailer:     Pegasus Mail v2.3 (R6).
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.novell
Date:         Sun, 20 Dec 1992 18:28:26 GMT+1200
Reply-To:     Novell LAN Interest Group <NOVELL@SUVM.BITNET>
From:         David Harris <DAVID@PMAIL.GEN.NZ>
Subject:      PMail/PC v2.35 released

Pegasus Mail version 2.3 (R5) for DOS has been released, and is now
available from risc.ua.edu (130.160.4.7), as

            /pub/network/pegasus/pmail235.exe

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.

-------- What's new in 2.3 (R5) -------------------------------------

PMail 2.35 is mostly consolidation over previous versions, although
there are some new goodies as well.

* Long folder names are now shown in the browser title
* Some cosmetic fixes (spaces after names etc)
* Trailing white spaces in addresses is now stripped.
* Ctext comments in addresses containing commas (such as
  "(David Harris, CSC)" no longer cause parser errors.
* Extra Distribution List keywords:
  In this release, you have many more options in DLists by
  using keywords starting with '\' in the list.
  - \CC   all addresses following a \CC entry in the list
          will be placed in the message's CC field.
  - \BCC  all addresses following a \BCC entry in the list
          will be placed in the message's BCC field
  - \TO   all addresses following a \TO entry in the list
          will be placed in the message's TO field. You can
          use \CC, \BCC and \TO as often as you wish in the
          list, and the addresses will accumulate.

  [ Note: the \TO, \CC and \BCC lines should appear on a
    line of their own in the list - they affect addresses
    on subsequent lines in the list ]

  - \READING Y/N  sets the message's "Request confirmation
          of reading" flag to either Y or N.
  - \DELIVERY Y/N sets the message's "Request confirmation
          of delivery" field to either Y or N.
  - \URGENT Y/N  sets the message's "Urgent" flag to either
          Y or N.
  - \NOSIG Y/N   if N, then signatures can be appended to
          the message; if Y, they cannot.

* Reply-to-all option: you can now select "reply to all" in
  the reply dialog options. If you do, PMail will create a
  distribution list called "Temporary List" containing the
  addresses of every recipient of the original message. Note
  that this includes you.
* Help for the search options in the editor/better prompt.
* UDGs are now polled when "read new mail" is selected. Prior
  to this release, UDG's which depended on a program being run
  to process new mail were not run. That is fixed in 2.35.
* Progress indicator in mail loader window.
* Alternate text selection fixed: PMALTEXT.DAT, used to
  customize SMTP translation tables and PostScript printing,
  was broken in 2.34. It works in 2.35.
* Pmail now picks up NetWare IDENTIFICATION property as
  the user's Personal Name by default when first run.
* MV option now installed using PCONFIG: MHS users can now
  supply the path to the MHS tree using PCONFIG. Doing this
  allows PMail to operate correctly as an MHS mailer when
  the user chooses "Change file server" from the main menu.

Not done in this release:

  At various times I indicated that this release would
  include support for BinHex, and more flexible encoding
  options for attachments. People have also assumed that
  this release would include MIME support, and forms
  support. Because of a lack of time, these options are
  all missing from this release, but will certainly be in
  the next release, early in 1993.

Enjoy!

-- David --

------------------- David Harris -+- Pegasus Mail --------------------
  Box 5451, Dunedin, New Zealand  |  e-mail: david@pmail.gen.nz
 +64 3 4536880/Fax +64 3 4536612  |  CIS: >internet:david@pmail.gen.nz

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