Pine Release Notes
Version 4.31
University of Washington
Pine(R) is the University of Washington's "Program for Internet News and
Email". It is intended to be an easy-to-use program for sending,
receiving, and filing Internet electronic mail messages and bulletin
board (Netnews) messages. There are versions that will run on many
different flavors of the Unix(R) operating system, as well as a version
with GUI amenities for 32-bit flavors of Microsoft Windows (95, 98, NT,
2000, and Millennium).
NEW IN PINE 4.31
Version 4.31 is a bug-fix release that addresses several bugs found in
earlier releases. There are only a few non-bug changes.
Bugs that have been addressed in this release include:
* Crashes when sorting by Threads
* Text of last message could be invisible with header larger than 4096
bytes
* Fixed a few buffer overflow possibilities
* Many problems if compiled without -DDEBUG
* Eliminated length restriction on address book comments
* Couldn't expand collections when selecting if combined-folder-display
set
* List options set only in fixed config didn't work
* Filtering based solely on scores didn't work
* Filtering to non-existent folder didn't ask to create the folder
* Save to default folder didn't work if the folder didn't already exist
* Crash when using WhereIs in Setup/Kolor with color turned off
* News collections would sometimes show up doubled until restarting
* Crash when accepting default in shuffle folder list command
* PC-Pine didn't always save window position
* Last-folder-used rule didn't always save the name of first saved
folder
* Rule editor address selector should allow multiple addresses
* Added Replicate command for Rules
* News validation doesn't validate against multiple news servers
* Reply to some text/html messages with attachments incorrectly set
content-type to text/html
* mail-directory setting in pine.conf doesn't work
Version 4.30 was an evolutionary release that introduced new
functionality.
Major new additions included:
* Configuration flexibility
+ pine configurations can now be stored remotely on an imap server
for access from different locations without the need to configure
for each location.
+ configuration may be split into two parts: generic configuration
and exceptional, per-platform configuration.
+ signatures can now be stored remotely or as part of the pinerc
file
+ for configuration options which are lists, inheritance is
supported
* New security features
+ SSL support for Unix Pine (source code only)
+ SSL enhancements for PC-Pine
* Minor rule enhancements
+ status of a message (New, Deleted, etc.) can now be used as
criteria for pattern matching.
+ "move-only-if-not-deleted" option in filtering to lessen the
chance of messages being filtered more than once when running
multiple pine sessions.
+ ability to set arbitrary headers in roles.
+ news filtering made more efficient.
* Basic threaded sorting (Expanded functionality to be added in a
future version).
* Enhanced MAPI support for PC-Pine
* Various other new features and configuration options
+ alternate-compose-menu
+ by-replyto for saved-msg-name-rule
+ check-newmail-when-quitting
+ continue-tab-without-confirm
+ expose-hidden-config
+ expunge-only-manually
+ incoming-startup-rule additions
+ literal-signature
+ mark-for-cc
+ prefer-plain-text
+ pruning-rule, for monthly sent-mail renaming and deleting
+ quell-extra-post-prompt
+ hidden feature allow-changing-from defaults to on
* New command line options:
+ -p <pinerc>, pinerc can now refer to a remote mailbox which
contains the configuration file
+ -x <exception_config>, is how you override your default pinerc
settings with exceptions for a particular platform, may be local
or remote
+ -aux <local_auxiliary_files_directory>, allows you to tell Pine
the local directory to use for auxiliary files when pinerc is
remote (PC-Pine only)
+ -copy_pinerc and -copy_abook options
+ -v option
Bugs addressed in the 4.30 release included:
* Incoming mail with an extremely long From address can cause a buffer
overflow on the stack (security)
* X-Keywords crash for unix formatted mailboxes
* Composer word wrapping needlessly wraps words
* New messages appear in zoomed view
* "Bad msgno 0" filtering crash
* "+" during login doesn't always mean that SSL is being used
* news filtering refilters messages that had already been filtered
* Goto and Save can't access folders that are readable but not listable
* Goto doesn't allow access of folders outside of a Collection List
* PC-Pine SSL functionality broken in Windows 2000/Millennium
* FromOrTo and To in index-format don't work for newsgroups
* Sorting by score doesn't always work
* Viewing of very large messages uses more memory than is need
* Loss of body for reply to multipart/signed mime messages
* Pine crashes when replying to or forwarding messages with certain
types of attachments
* Brackets are falsely recognized as url characters
* Crash when enclosing options in quotes for PC-Pine
* Newsgroup posting doesn't allow posting to additional news servers
Additional details on changes in this (and previous) versions of Pine may
be found at the following URL:
http://www.washington.edu/pine/changes.html
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GETTING HELP
Online Help
Every Pine screen and command has associated help text accessible
via the "?" key (or Ctrl-G in text-input contexts).
Web Help
The most current source of information about Pine, including new
version availability, is the web page at
http://www.washington.edu/pine/
Frequently Asked Questions (and answers) may be found at the following
URL:
http://www.washington.edu/pine/faq/
Some topics of current interest include:
* Information on Folder Locking
* Information on Missing mail and the mbox driver
* Information on Folder Namespaces
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
General Pine configuration information can be found here.
Pine is also available for Windows 32-bit environments. More information
on PC-Pine can be found here.
Pine was developed by the Office of Computing & Communications at the
University of Washington in Seattle. A more complete list of principal
players and key contributors can be found on the credits Web page at
http://www.washington.edu/pine/credits
Pine and Pico are trademarks of the University of Washington.
Pine, Pico and Pilot Copyright 1989-2000 University of Washington
Additional legal notices can be found here or at the web URL:
http://www.washington.edu/pine/legal