VDR Plugin 'mailbox' Revision History - commented version
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(additional comments are marked with 'Note:')

2004-01-24: Version 0.1.6

- no additional notes

2003-12-25: Version 0.1.4

- no additional notes

2003-12-20: Version 0.1.2

- Decode these '=?ISO-8859-1?Q?...?=' encoded-words in 'Subject'
  and 'From'-lines.
  (works for all characters of 'ISO-8859-1', almost complete for
  'ISO-8859-15' (8 chars missing), 'Windows-1252' (16 chars
  missing) and the other 'ISO-8559-*' (only first 126 characters
  supported. All other encodings are not touched (~0.5% of
  all mails to vdr-ml since 03/2002).

  Note:
  (1) Currently the decoding of 'ISO-8559-1' should be complete
      as VDR's fontOsd is apparently in ISO-8559-1. (80%)
  (2) For the encoding 'ISO-8559-15' the 8 missing characters are
      displayed as '?'. (4.5%)
  (3) For the encoding 'Windows-1252' the 16 missing characters
      are displayed as '?'. (1%)
  (4) For the other encodings 'ISO-8559-*' the characters above
      127 are displayed as '?', but nevertheles this should be
      more readable than those '=?ISO-8859-1?Q?...?=' encoded-
      words. (1%)
  (5) The other encodings are left untouched.
      (The most commonly used is 'x-unknown' (13%), but I
      currently don't know how to handle this.)

  Within the last ~20.000 mails in the vdr-ML, there are about
  5.8% mails with encoded words. ~85% of these fall in category
  (1)-(3) -> >99% of the mails is displayed correctly or almost
  correctly (concerning a few special characters).
  -> I can happily live with the rest of <~1.0% and don't plan to
  invest any more time.

- Avoid that parts of the subject are displayed behind the sender,
  if the subject-string is very long and the sender-string is
  very short.

  Note: This is done by appending several spaces after the
  sender-string.

- mail-list-view now displays four imap-state flags 'NFAD' (New,
  Flagged, Answered, Deleted) in front of the subject.

  Note: The one character display could lead to confusion and it isn't
  possible to finally decide how to order priorities of the flags.

- The flag Recent was removed completely (from the osd), because
  for POP3-accounts the Recent was always set and for IMAP-accounts
  it's not very useful (for reading mails).

  Note: For a 'biff'-like feature the \Recent-flag could of course
  be useful.

2003-12-05: Version 0.1.0 - first public release

2003-11-xx: Versions < 0.1.0 for internal use only
