Pine Release Notes
Version 4.41
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 4.41
Version 4.41 is a bug-fix release that addresses bugs found in earlier
releases. There are only a few non-bug changes.
Functional changes include:
* Setup/Signature prefers literal-signature by default
* Composer justify command handles nested quoting better
* Increased efficiency for remote configurations (no temporary
files)
* New tokens SIZECOMMA (similar to 4.33 SIZE) and SIZENARROW for
index-format
* Select by size (thanks to Martin Gallwey)
* New feature quell-content-id for working around Outlook XP problem
* New PC-Pine feature quell-ssl-largeblocks for working around OS
SSL-problems
* Better color interoperability between PC-Pine and Unix Pine with
16-color xterm
* New PC-Pine dialog to aid in locating configuration file if none
found
Bugs that have been addressed in this release include:
* Save from local folder to simple name in remote collection fails
* Crash when selecting folders by Properties (Unseen...) in local
collection
* Crash when talking to POP3 servers which have the EXPIRE
capability
* Crash when talking to SMTP server which offers STARTTLS
* Crash when accessing remote config if there is a TLS failure
* Crash when index-format includes SCORE token, a score rule
includes an AllText pattern, and the folder being scored is remote
* Delivery Status Notification (DSN) broken
* Editing reply-indent-string was broken when using Windows dialog
boxes
* Entire folder is re-filtered when Save is typed and
save-will-advance is set
Version 4.40 was an evolutionary release that introduced new
functionality.
Additions included:
* TLS and SSL support
+ TLS is fully supported in sources
+ SSL is fully integrated in the source, due to changes in US
export regulations
+ For Unix and Windows 2000 Pine, server certificates must be
signed by a trusted certificate authority (more)
+ Does this Pine support TLS and SSL?
* Help for managing remote config and address books
+ Command line method to convert sigs from files to literal
(-convert_sigs)
+ Standalone commands rpload and rpdump to load and dump files
to and from remote config or address book folders
* New rules-based methods for setting up per-folder startup rules,
sorting, and index format
* Rules-based filtering can now set message state (Important,
Deleted, ...)
* Expunge now causes filter rules to be re-examined
* New printer type "attached-to-wyse"
* New feature enable-take-export
* New Setup/Kolor option Current Indexline Style
* New hidden feature disable-password-caching
* New hidden feature disable-shared-namespaces
* Some new tokens available, including KSIZE, SMARTTIME,
SMARTDATETIME, SCORE, and INIT
* New by-realname "saved-msg-name-rules"
* New command line argument -supported
Bugs addressed in the 4.40 release included:
* PC-Pine splash screen remains visible if started minimized
* Allow longer folder names
* Crash when posting news and no nntp-server defined
* Config changes not flushed to remote config folder when exiting
without quitting Pine
* Temp files not removed when exiting without quitting Pine
* TakeAddr crash on encoded addresses
* TakeAddr removed old entry when nickname matched, even if user
said "no"
* Newmail added to folder by a filter was not sorted correctly
* From header not always popping up in composer after postpone
* Select by Date in newsgroups broken
* Multi-line subject breaks new mail message
* Extra F (FFrom) written to mailbox in some situations
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 1989-2001 University of Washington
Additional legal notices can be found here or at the web URL:
http://www.washington.edu/pine/legal
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