Message-Id: <9305201615.AA21681@marinara>
From: alsaggaf@Athena.MIT.EDU
Sender: owner-linux-activists@joker.cs.hut.fi
To: linux-activists@joker.cs.hut.fi
Subject: Mumail 1.7b
Date: Thu, 20 May 1993 19:14:41 +0300


I've uploaded Mumail 1.7b to sipb.mit.edu:/pub/seyon/MUMAIL. This is a
much improved release over previous ones (I was even thinking of bumping
the version number to 2.0). Please do read the change log and manual
carefully, as you'll have to modify some resources if they don't fit
your setup. Here are he changes from 1.6b:


Version 1.7b:
    * The folder name now appears on the window's title bar and icon
      name. Also the screen number is shown.
    * The busy cursor is now shown on all screen as it should be
      (since the whole program is busy then and not just one screen).
    * A bug is opening more than 4 screens is fixed.
    * Performance improvement for opening folders. Mumail is now TWICE
      AS FAST AS ELM in loaing folders (informal benchmark: on my
      386SX-25, it takes elm 22 seconds to load a 400k folder of 255
      letters, it takes Mumail 11 seconds).
    * Revamped the mail delivery agent interface. Make sure you read
      the new section in the manual about that before using Mumail.
      The old resource mailAgent is replaced by three new resources:
      mailAgentProgram, mailAgentArgs, and mailAgentPassAddress. Refer
      to the manual page for more details.
    * Most (perhaps all) of the old limitations are gone. Mumail now
      handle muliple headers, aliases in multiple headers, correct
      handling of cc and Bcc, and handling of aliases in cc and Bcc.
      Also Mumail now understands headers of all cases (all capital is
      ok).
    * Search folder is now case-insensitive.
    * Due to the correct handling of headers of wrong case, Mumail is
      no longer twice as fast as elm in loading folders, but still
      faster (18 seconds in the baove example, compared to elm's 22).
    * Added a small hacked truncate(2) for systems without it.
    * New menu option: Check mailbox. Tells you if whether your
	  mailbox has mail or not.
    * Mumail now tells the user if the mailbox has letters when it
      starts up.
    * Mumail now handles digests correclty. Two choices are available.
      the normal one handles digests conforming to the de-facto
      starndrad RFC-1153 (most digests), and another for grotty
	  digests. In the latter, rules are relaxed a bit to handle
	  non-conforming digests. If a digest is not recognized by the
	  normal menu option, use the other one. Thanks to Joseph Urban
	  for supplying the RFC document and examples.
    * Exit is now handled correctly for multiple screens. The program
      now prompts the user before closing each screen on exit if the
      folder in that screen has changed.
    * Fixed a few bugs and added sme compatibility fucntions.

Enjoy!

-- M. Saggaf