We fixed a bug that caused Agent to GPF when a DAT file exceeded the size limit of 2 gigabytes. The limit still exists, but Agent now reports an error rather than crashing. We fixed a bug that sometimes caused an attachment copy operation from Agent to another application to fail. We added support for SMTP authentication, for ISPs that require you to login to their mail server prior to sending email. We added support for the Macintosh Western European MIME charset.
Agent now tries the new sytnax if the news server rejects a command using the old one.
Version 1.7 Release Notes. This bug caused the slow operation reported by many users. We found that the charset warning message was confusing to many people. It was especially confusing if you replied to a message that contained unencodable characters, and the warning was displayed because of the quoted text. Since our attempt to wage a solitary fight for charset purity seems to have failed, we have added an option to Agent to have it follow common practice.