Organization: Pegasus Mail, New Zealand
X-Pmrqc:      1
X-Mailer:     Pegasus Mail v2.3 (R3).
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.novell
Date:         Mon, 17 Aug 1992 23:12:29 GMT+1200
Reply-To:     Novell LAN Interest Group <NOVELL@SUVM.BITNET>
From:         David Harris <DAVID@PMAIL.GEN.NZ>
Subject:      Pegasus Mail v2.3 (R3) released.
X-To:         Charon Test List <charon-l@draco.erc.clarkson.edu>,
              Novell%suvm.bitnet@uga.cc.uga.edu,
              pmail-updates@busadm1.cba.hawaii.edu

PMAIL233.EXE is now available from the following sites:

         risc.ua.edu, in /pub/network/pegasus
   and   tyr.let.rug.nl, in /pub/pmail

it will be at omnigate.clarkson.edu and splicer.cba.hawaii.edu by the
middle of this week.

All sites currently running any revision of PMail 2.3 should regard this
as a mandatory upgrade. It is predominantly a stabilising maintenance
release which fixes a number of problems in PMail 2.3 (R2).

Fixed:
   * PMail will not now crash when trying to read more than 30KB of data
     into the editor.
   * PMail will not now crash when reading a message with more than 300
     lines in the To: field. A side-effect of this fix is that PMail can
     now browse messages up to around 70% the size of available RAM.
   * Distribution lists may now be nested, and only the \SENDER and
     \REPLYTO fields of the topmost list will be included in the message.
   * PMail will now issue a warning when a folder is too large to open,
     and load as many messages as it can (around 1900 on a typical
     machine running DOS 5).
   * PMail should now correctly parse messages sent via the MHS<->UUCP
     gateway UGATE.
   * PMail now issues warnings if you try to paste more data from an
     address list into an address field than will fit.
   * Problems sending attachments on NetWare 2.X servers have been fixed.
   * PMail now recognizes and processes new MHS mail as part of the
     browser idle cycle (previous versions only checked for new PMail
     or Charon-style mail while the new mail folder was open).
   * Problems with "corrupt message" errors when new mail arrives in the
     Newmail browse screen should diminish.
   * PMail no longer sends an attachment envelope if all the attachments
     are sent as messages. The wording of the attachment data entry screen
     has also been changed to be more accurate and informative.
   * PMail no longer strips high-bit chars in signatures sent to local
     addresses.

Worked-around:
   Under previous versions of PMail, newmail filtering rules would be
   repeatedly applied to mail left unread in the newmail folder. PMail
   2.33 works around this by flagging such messages as read. It's not a
   perfect solution, but the problem is more complex than it seems. This
   workaround does NOT affect the Read/Unread status of messages moved or
   copied into other folders - only mail which is left in the newmail
   folder after processing is affected.

Added:
   There are only a few feature additions over 2.32...

   * A new header option allows you to omit your signature from a
     message.

   * New command substitutions available for user-defined
     gateways:
     - ~x   Substitutes the name.ext ONLY of the
            message container file (ie, path stripped)
     - ~p   Substitutes the user's Personal Name field
            as defined in the Preferences Menu.

   * The GUIDE.EXE has been created with DRC v2, and supports searching,
     printing and extraction to text files.

   * Password entry at startup can now be specified in DEFAULTS.PM

   * PMail will now offer to try to create your home mailbox if it
     doesn't exist at startup.

   * New Actions for Newmail Filtering Rules:
     - Add user to list: adds the sender of the message to
       a distribution list. Only lists created using <F6>
       are candidates.
     - Remove user from list: removes the sender of the
       message from the specified list.

   The new rules work strictly on the address, and are not fooled by
   personal names or other comments in the field. The sender's address is
   taken from the Reply-to field of the message if one exists, or else
   the From field.

Enjoy!

Cheers!

-- David --

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                         David Harris  +  Pegasus Mail
  P.O. Box 5451, Dunedin, New Zealand  |  e-mail: david@pmail.gen.nz
   +64 3 453-6880, Fax +64 3 453-6612  |      or: david@otago.ac.nz
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