Pine Release Notes
Version 4.63
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 4.63
Version 4.63 addresses bugs found in previous releases and has a few
additions as well.
Additions include:
* When cancelling a message being composed the commands are now "^C"
followed by "_C_onfirm" instead of "^C" followed by "_Y_es". "^C"
"Yes" was close to "^X" "Yes", the command used to send a message.
The change is there to prevent inadvertent cancellations. The old
behavior may be restored by setting the feature
Compose-Cancel-Confirm-Uses-Yes.
* Command-line option "-url" can now be used with "-attach" and
similar options
* Quell-User-Id-Prompt no longer falls back on prompting for user-id
if a connection to the INBOX can't be established
* New token _CURNEWS_ which is equal to the current newsgroup if
there is one, mostly for use with the Reply-Leadin option
* New token ARROW for use in the Index-Format option for the MESSAGE
INDEX screen. This causes the current message to be indicated by
an arrow instead of being shown in reverse video. It may also be
colored if desired.
* New feature Force-Arrow-Cursor turns on an "arrow" cursor in the
MESSAGE INDEX just like you get with the Assume-Slow-Link feature
turned on, except the coloring of the index line will still take
place.
* Address book entries can be exported to a file in tab-separated
columns for more convenient import to some other clients
* New variable Quote-Replace-String and feature
Quote-Replace-Nonflowed allow for replacing quotes with the string
of the user's choice when viewing a message
* Character Set matching can now be done conveniently in Rules
* Field for comments added to Rules. Warning: Don't use this field
until all of the Pines that you run are version 4.63 or higher,
since it will cause the Rule to be ignored in previous versions.
* There is a new filterNow command located under Setup/Rules which
causes your filters to be re-run immediately. This is _not_ useful
for most users since filters are run immediately as new mail
arrives, but it may be useful if you want to re-run filters after
changing the status (New, Important, Deleted, and so on) of
messages and you don't want to wait until exiting the folder or
expunging.
Bugs that have been addressed in this release include:
* Crash when an IMAP server dies while browsing the server's
collection of folders
* Crash with message "Lock when already locked" when saving multiple
messages where some of those messages have had attachments deleted
* Possible crash when viewing an attachment with an encoded name
* Crash when saving from a local folder which has been closed due to
external modification
* TABbing for new mail in a news maildrop with multiple newsrcs was
broken
* Role inheritance only worked one level deep
* When viewing messages with the Quote-Suppression-Threshold turned
on, non-flowed messages with long lines that wrapped caused
confusion with the quoted line counting
* Malformed addresses were not always handled cleanly when replying.
Now the original address should be presented to the user who must
sort it out.
* In PC-Pine, Postponed tab was needlessly grayed out when editing
headers.
* It wasn't possible to add a collection that was a sub-collection
of the open Inbox on a cyrus server because Pine tried to create
the directory Inbox and that Folder/Directory already existed
* Handles (for example, for URLs) would sometimes be selectable even
though they had been scrolled off the screen one line, causing
confusion
* Failed to notice expunges in local folders which were in mbx
format
* In composer: ^R to reveal Attachment line, attach a file without
leaving the line (e.g. with ^T), then ^R while still in the
Attachment line, and the attachment was not sent
* When viewing format=flowed messages with the DelSp=yes parameter
urls were not recognized if they were split in the middle. It is
recommended that messages not be sent with this format but it is
known that some clients (Apple Mail is one) do send such mail.
* Avoid unnecessary re-sort of the folder when re-filtering in
preparation for an expunge
* In PC-Pine, crash when fonts with unknown character sets are
loaded
* Bug in composer when cleaning up a flowed message with
indentations inside of quotes.
* Preserve Literal-Signature leading spaces in config file
* Strip trailing spaces from signatures so that they won't be
recognized as flowed text
* Fix race condition in rpdump that could cause overwriting of
arbitrary local files owned by the user running rpdump if a
malicious user has write permission in the same directory as the
local file specified on the command line.
* When running Pine in function key mode, make it possible to
Reverse the sort
Version 4.62 addressed bugs found in previous releases and had a few
additions as well.
Additions included:
* Enable-Newmail-in-Xterm-Icon now also sets the title bar text to
indicate new mail
* New feature Enable-Newmail-Short-Text-in-Icon
* New UNIX Pine feature NewMail-FIFO-Path
* New feature NewMail-Window-Width
* Select command may use the pattern from an existing Rule (for
example, an Indexcolor Rule) for its selection criteria
* Beginning of Month and Beginning of Year options in Rules
* Some additional tokens having to do with the current date may be
used in the folder name that is used as a target in a Filter Rule.
For example, you may filter messages to a folder named for the
current month by using the _CURYEAR_ and _CURMONTH_ tokens in the
folder name. The (long) list of all such tokens is here.
* Three additional tokens for use with Keywords may be used in the
Index-Format. They are SUBJKEYINIT, KEY, and KEYINIT (in addition
to the old SUBJKEY).
* Keywords may be displayed in color using Keyword Colors, available
from the Setup/Kolor screen
* The Keyword-Surrounding-Chars option may be used to slightly
modify the display of SUBJKEYINIT and SUBJKEY tokens.
* The Enable-Flag-Screen-Keyword-Shortcut option adds a shortcut
method of setting keywords
* When performing an aggregate reply (or forward), if the Role that
would be selected when replying (or forwarding) to each individual
message in the set is the same for all the messages, then that
role is used just like it would be when replying (or forwarding)
to any one of those messages.
* Delete/No Delete prompt added to Save command so that the source
message may be deleted or not on a Save-by-Save basis
* Status-Message-Delay option now allows reducing the status message
delays Pine sometimes adds
* New feature Save-Partial-Msg-Without-Confirm
* New feature Disable-Take-Fullname-in-Addresses
* New feature Sort-Default-FCC-Alpha
* New feature Sort-Default-Save-Alpha
* For selecting messages by Status, add the possibility of selecting
based on Recent or Unseen status
* Allow Take command to take addresses from html and enriched text
subtypes, as well as from plain text
Bugs addressed in the 4.62 release included:
* Crash when sending a message with a Role that sets the To header
if the Empty-Header-Message is set to <Empty Value>
* Pine hangs in composer after alternate editor or speller is run
and new mail arrives that causes an External Categorizer command
to be executed
* Crash in MESSAGE INDEX when using a threaded sort. The crash is
most common when the sort is Reversed.
* Pine could crash or hang when the window was resized down to 3
lines or fewer while in the composer
* In the Role editor the "To Folders" command for the "Set Fcc"
action did not work
* After running Pine for a long time, it would slow down until
restarted
* Export command in FOLDER LIST did not work with dual-use folders
* When the Send-Without-Confirm option was turned on, flowed text
was not produced and the Fcc-Without-Attachments feature did not
work
* Display bug, folder was not un-highlighted
* When viewing a message from the separate thread index, new mail
arrival could cause Pine to leave the MESSAGE TEXT screen and drop
back to the MESSAGE INDEX screen on its own
* When the UnDelete command was typed in the composer with the
cursor in the middle of a header line, the text was inserted at
the beginning of the line instead of at the location of the cursor
* When some messages from a thread were selected (not including the
top of the thread), the view was Zoomed, and the feature
Slash-Collapses-Entire-Thread was turned on; the collapse command
caused messages to disappear from the view entirely
* Incorrect character conversions were possible when going from
ISO-8859-X to ISO-8859-1
* Quell-Charset-Warning will now also quell the short comment
included in header lines about the charset being different from
yours in addition to quelling the editorial comment at the top of
a message. This is the stuff that looks like "[ISO-8859-2]" in a
header line.
* If the Down Arrow key was held down it caused Pine to do a new
mail check for each repeated character, which caused a delay when
the key was held down by mistake. Changed that so that it does at
most one check per second.
* An unnecessary sort of the folder (causing a delay) was happening
when closing if a filter rule depended on message state
* Mouse in xterm failed when clicking in the folder screen
* Enable-Dot-Folders feature did not allow adding folders with names
beginning with dot
* When replying to a TEXT/ENRICHED message Pine was failing to
filter out the ENRICHED markup
* Crash caused by malformed ISO-2022-JP in header
* Crash when changing Inbox-Path if INBOX was not the current folder
* Adding a collection on a Cyrus server did not work if the folder
already existed (Pine tried to create it and failed)
* Pine gave incorrect messages when deleting dual-use
folders/directories
* Saving an attached message to INBOX from another collection did
not work correctly (it tried to create INBOX in the collection
instead)
* In some circumstances, Pine could announce "No messages expunged
from folder <x>" after an expunge command that actually worked
correctly
* Allow alternate editor to use quoted arguments
* News drop folders weren't using the correct newsrc with
Enable-Multiple-Newsrcs enabled
* Error decoding some 8-bit headers, typically showing up as a
garbage character at the end of a name
Version 4.61 addressed bugs found in previous releases and had a few
additions as well.
Additions included:
* The "^T" "To Files" command from within the composer on the
Attchmnt header line or from within the composer in the "^J"
"Attach" command is now capable of attaching multiple files at
once
* When Exporting a message with attachments you now have the option
of saving all of the attachments in a new directory (Export
Message File Selection) by typing "^P" while exporting
* Feature to modify behavior of TAB command,
Tab-Uses-Unseen-For-Next-Folder
* When sending, flowed text (RFC 3676) is sent by default. Now it is
possible to turn off this behavior on a message by message basis
with the ^V command at the Send prompt. You may still turn if off
for all cases with the feature Quell-Flowed-Text.
* Viewer-Margin-Left and Viewer-Margin-Right made a little more
flexible
* Suppress quoted text when viewing messages with
Quote-Suppression-Threshold
* The behavior of the HdrMode Command has changed slightly. It now
reverts back to normal mode when you switch to a new message. It
also has an additional state if Quote-Suppression-Threshold is
turned on.
* The old behavior of the HdrMode Command can be restored by not
setting the Quote-Suppression-Threshold and setting the new
feature Quell-Full-Header-Auto-Reset
* Feature to rename sent-mail folder to sent-mail-yyyy-mm instead of
sent-mail-mon-year (Prune-Uses-YYYY-MM)
* With Alternate-Role-Menu option turned on you could Reply or
Forward using a Role. Now you can also Bounce using a role.
* Relaxed conditions which caused a filter to not be reevaluated
before expunging if the user changed flags manually. Now only a
manual Undelete may cause the filter to not be reevaluated before
expunging.
Bugs addressed in the 4.61 release included:
* Crash when resizing screen in empty collection
* Crash with alternate-role-menu in empty folder
* Crash when you enter the name of a server incorrectly
* Crash when using aggregate Save and some attachments have been
deleted
* Exit folder collection with "<" command was broken
* Export command in FOLDER LIST did not always work
* Filtering on subject with non-ascii value did not work correctly
* Index display sometimes incorrect when threading
* Incorrect conversion from one 8-bit character set to another
* Saved-Msg-Name-Rule of "last-folder-used" broken in 4.60
* The threading-indicator-character would disappear when Expunging
in some cases
* Stay-Open-Folders did not work with local folders
* Strip-From-Sigdashes-On-Reply was failing when replying to a
non-flowed message with flowed-text enabled
* Sigdashes were incorrectly flowed for some flowed messages
* When building pine, compiling filter.c was broken or slow on some
systems
* Features hide-nntp-path and disable-shared-namespaces weren't
being correctly initialized
* Rule Patterns could only have a single category of Extra Headers
* The command to Replicate a rule did not copy the "not" parts of
the rule correctly
Version 4.60 was an evolutionary release which introduced some new
functionality.
Additions included:
* 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 Import 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 addressed in the 4.60 release included:
* 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 1989-2005 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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