Pine Release Notes
Version 4.60
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, Me, and XP).
New in Pine 4.60
Version 4.60 is an evolutionary release which introduces some new
functionality.
Additions include:
* In PC-Pine, add ability to do piping, Sending-Filters,
Display-Filters, and other operations where external command
execution is possible.
* Control margins in Message Viewing screen with Viewer-Margin-Left
and Viewer-Margin-Right
* Display flowed text well
* Send flowed text when possible, with the ability to turn this
behavior off through the new feature Quell-Flowed-Text
* Add keywords to folders using the Keywords option to set them up
and the Flag Command to set or clear them for particular messages.
Filters may also set or clear keywords. Keywords may be used for
Selecting messages, for matching messages in Rule Patterns, and
may be displayed in the index using the SUBJKEY token in the
Index-Format option.
* In Mac OS X, view and send attachments and URLs according to how
the system defines handling them, without relying on the existence
of a mailcap or mime.types file
* For PC-Pine, add a separate window that contains new mail
notifications for all folders currently opened (in PC-Pine Config
menu).
* Reply or Forward using a Role by turning on the
Alternate-Role-Menu option
* More IMAP connection caching: control it with options
Stay-Open-Folders, Preopen-Stayopen-Folders,
Max-Remote-Connections, and Offer-Expunge-On-Stayopen-Folders
* New feature Offer-Expunge-On-Inbox
* An attempt is made to convert incoming UTF-8 messages to the
user's character set
* Added support for HOME and END keys in message view and message
index
* Prevent canonicalization of news server names by setting
Mult-Newsrc-Hostnames-as-Typed
* Remove hostname from NNTP Path header with Hide-NNTP-Path option
* Support for External Categorizer Commands in Rules
* Improved interface when editing rules with many comma-separated
values
* More control over mail checking frequency with
Quell-Mailchecks-Composing-Except-Inbox,
Quell-Mailchecks-Composing-Inbox, and
Mail-Check-Interval-Noncurrent
* More control over filtering of control characters to screen with
Pass-C1-Control-Characters-as-is option
* New Export and Unexport commands in FOLDER LIST screen
* Now possible to use message size in Rule Patterns
* As a convenience, a shortcut for the command line argument
"-feature-list=feature" is "-feature", for example,
"-signature-at-bottom" or "-no-signature-at-bottom"
* Add PC-Pine command-line argument "-registry noset"
* Add command-line argument "-nowrite_passfile"
* Add feature Quell-Attachment-Extension-Warn
* Add features Quell-Filtering-Messages and
Quell-Filtering-Done-Message
* Add feature Quell-Charset-Warning
* Add feature Maildrops-Preserve-State
* Don't remove whitespace from the end of lines, a behavior which
can be turned off through the new feature
Strip-Whitespace-Before-Send
* Double dollar sign escapes special meaning of dollar sign in both
Unix Pine and PC-Pine (Using Environment Variables)
* RedHat and Debian ports more closely obey the Linux Hierarchy
Standard
* Improve performance of Select command when using Narrow or Broaden
and talking to an IMAP server
* Add feature Disable-Terminal-Reset-For-Display-Filters (you might
want to look into this if you have noticed that the coloring of
quoted text is broken when viewing messages)
* When displaying a message with QP encoding errors, instead of just
reporting "Non-hexadecimal character in QP encoding" and then
giving up, attempt to do the best possible
* Add feature Show-Sort
* Add feature Downgrade-Multipart-To-Text
* Add feature Dead-Letter-Files
* Port named "soc" is an attempt to use native Solaris compiler
* Add ability to justify the full message from the composer by doing
Control-W Control-J
Bugs that have been addressed in this release include:
* Crash when forwarding an attached message as an attachment
* Crash because of DebugJournal code on some systems, related to the
way they handle variable length arguments in C
* Crash when indexline colors are enabled and the last message of a
mailbox is expunged out from under us
* In FOLDER LIST screen using Select, Narrowing was not working
correctly
* When viewing a message with colored quotes, sometimes lines would
be erased from the screen when using the Up Arrow key
* Bug where normal text remained the same color as links after
viewing certain types of HTML-formatted messages
* More thoroughly use partial fetching for Quell-SSL-Largeblocks
when working around the Microsoft SSL crash that they continuously
forget to fix
* Crash when entering numerous attachments in the composer Attchmnt:
line
* Crash when composing to command line argument when address
requires an LDAP lookup
* Forwarding an address book distribution list did not work
correctly in PC-Pine
* GoTo a POP folder was broken in 4.58
* Non-terminating Filter Rules that only set message state, when
followed by a regular terminating rule that moved or deleted a
message, would cause messages matching the non-terminating rule to
be incorrectly deleted
* Near-infinite loop trying to open a temp file if disk quota is
exceeded
* Crash when trying to view attachment with a RFC-2047-encoded
filename
* Crash or data corruption when editing a HEADER COLOR's Pattern to
match
* HEADER COLOR's Pattern to match truncated to 100 characters
* In C locales where the decimal point character used by the printf
function is comma, some files could not be attached because their
size was listed as 7,3 KB, causing a parsing problem
* Bug where including a file from the composer would sometimes fail
unnecessarily
* Warn before attempting to view a file:// URL
* Pine on Mac OS X appears to hang when saving an attachment by
overwriting a file
* Pine hangs when given bad input for a rule interval
* Couldn't use Filters anymore if an empty file was included. The
same was true for other types of Rules, as well.
* Pine loses track of its selected messages and only saves one
message when new mail arrives during an aggregate save.
Details on changes in 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:
* Mail Drops
* 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 1989-2004 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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