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This file contains all the changes made to the program within the last five or more versions. You can use it to quickly see what's new, what's fixed, and what changes you can make to take advantage of new features. The changes are marked as to importance: !! Item is very important to all users ** Moderately important, or important only on certain systems ++ Improvement or addition ## Bug-fix or correction Minor change --- ## I think I fixed the Area Manager/FrontDoor problem, where FD tried to call some node other than the one it should have to deliver an Area Manager message. This is sheer guesswork, I have no way of knowing if it will do any good. --- ## Fixed a packet-bug that caused A/Mail to create "incorrectly terminated" packets sometimes. This may have fixed other problems as well. --- ++ Added debugging code for the OS/2 version's archiver problem. Run the program with the -D (for Debug) switch. --- ++ A/Mail had been checking to see if a file was already file-attached before creating a file-attach for it. Under Bink this was fine, and will continue; under FrontDoor and others, it was taking large amounts of time in some cases. A/Mail will no longer check under *.MSG systems, it will blindly file-attach a mail file when it is first created. --- ++ Updated the dupe-detection slightly, to allow for multiple areas sharing the same dupe-detect file. --- ## Fixed a bug that caused A/Mail to go into an endless loop when it saw some netmail messages. --- ## Fixed a bug in my BitArray library which caused A/Mail's Area Manager to allow access to all areas to everyone. Version 2.02a ============= ## Fixed (I think) a problem with netmail when using /AND with a *.MSG and other type (such as Spitfire). --- ## The "route to 1:0/0" problem reappeared. I don't know for certain why, but I've added a bit of code that should help, and another bit to tell me what's happening if it doesn't. --- ## Fixed a problem when /AND was used with *.MSG echomail areas. --- ## A bug introduced in 2.02 caused netmail addresses to get screwed up. Fixed. --- ## The "wrong zone in MSGID line" problem was only partly fixed in 2.02. The other half is now fixed. --- ## Fixed a "problem" in the *.MSG stuff that caused a certain badly-behaved message/fax program to throw garbage in the messages. Version 2.02 ============ ## FASTHUB now defaults to 25 (as it did originally), and DIRECTCALL is now the default. The DIRECTCALL option is no longer needed or documented. --- ## The PKDVER warning has been completely removed. Too many programs do not apparently use it correctly, and good messages were being thrown away because of it. --- ## The bogus error message concerning TESTFILE.TMP -- an annoyance caused by the debugging code added to track down the lockups -- has been supressed. --- ## Fixed the problem where A/Mail would try (and fail) to create both zone and point directories at the same time. It will now create the zone directory first, then the point directory, as necessary. --- ++ Improved the packet-buffering, letting A/Mail use the buffer memory more efficiently. Also cut the size of the buffer, freeing 32K of memory. --- ## The MSGID line was sometimes getting the wrong zone on it. Fixed. --- ## Reworked portions of the file-locking under the Spitfire format, which should prevent the lockups SF people have been seeing. --- ## Made a small change to the empty-netmail-detection code that should prevent the blank ones that were getting through. --- ## Fixed a seldom-seen bug in the Spitfire stuff, which would only appear when A/Mail tossed locally-created netmail to the Spitfire message base. --- ## Fixed a possible problem with the dupe-detection code, to take care of at least some of the lockup problems. --- ## Found and fixed one possible cause of the SHARE problems. --- ## Fixed a problem in a new piece of the *.MSG code, which should fix some of the reported bugs. --- ## Added some code to catch failure-to-open-file problems. I don't know if it will do any good, but it's a possible problem I'd like to eliminate. --- ## Found a new bug in the *.MSG code that probably caused the 2.01 delay when scanning an empty UNKNOWN directory. Fixed. --- ++ Improved the circular-path detection a bit. Version 2.01 ============ ## A bug had crept into the *.MSG code during all the below-mentioned changes. Some of the people who played with the 'x' and 'xF' versions saw it, though 2.00 users would not have. Now fixed. --- ++ If an area were turned off by A/Mail's Area Manager, and you manually turned it back on, A/Mail wouldn't notice. Now it will see that the echo is on and remove it from the "turned off" file. --- ## Fixed some problems with *.MSG netmail areas, which were causing lockups, exceptions, and "floating point" errors at random. --- ## Some tosser out there is writing messages without using any separation character after the header information. This was causing A/Mail to lock up most of the time, when it ran across these messages, many of which have been traced to the Fido SPORTS echo. Such messages will now get the first 70 characters or so -- only -- treated as header information. You will probably see these messages as missing the beginning of the first paragraph, but they will no longer lock up the program. --- ++ Various improvements to the Area Manager. It will now make reply messages no more than 8K long, splitting them into multiple messages if necessary. It will also no longer need the 16K it was trying to allocate for a work buffer. --- ** I've added what I call "FastHub." In effect, A/Mail will keep as many outbound packet files open as it can, for as long as it can, eliminating the large overhead of repeatedly opening and closing the same files. The advantage: SPEED. The more nodes you send echomail to, the more of a speed increase you should see. The disadvantage: it's something new, with all the potential problems that brings with it. I've done everything in my power to minimize the risk, but I don't yet know how successful this will be. To take full advantage of the speed improvements this offers, I would recommend having FILES=35 (or higher) in your CONFIG.SYS. This is not required, though, as A/Mail should be able to adapt itself to whatever setting you have. --- ## Several sections of code updated to allow more flexible point-routing, even with points that don't "belong" to your system. --- ## The NOTOUCH option would not ignore an address belonging to the system it was running on, even if told to. Fixed. --- ## A/Mail's Area Manager wasn't working properly when the AREAS.BBS file was not located on the current drive. Fixed. --- ## The bug (bugs, rather -- there were two sections of code responsible) that caused A/Mail to lock up or give exception 13 or trap 0D at the end of a session has been found and eliminated. --- ## A bug in the Hudson and multi-Hudson code caused excessive memory usage, to the tune of 16K per Hudson base. Other than the obvious memory problem, there should have been no ill effects from this. --- ++ Added protection from zero-byte *.MSG files, which were on occasion locking up A/Mail. Thanks to Cliff and Susana Emberg for finding this and recommending the fix. --- ## A/Mail wasn't stripping out the entire path on file-attached messages, causing a mostly-cosmetic problem. Fixed. --- ++ Taught A/Mail to recognize the SCHED keyword in the config file. A/Mail itself will *not* do schedules; that is handled by the SCHED program (available only to registered users), which is currently being tested. --- ## A bug in the packet-reading portion of the program caused some packets not to be re-processed after being marked "bad" (by NOTOUCH, etc). --- ## Two small bugs with /ANDed netmail areas have been fixed. Thanks to Tom Creek for figuring out the main one. --- ## Fixed a bug in the routing that caused A/Mail to ignore any CRASH, HOLD, DIRECT, NORMAL, or IMMEDIATE commands if no ROUTE command was used as well. --- ++ Expanded the REPORTSTATS option to allow full echomail accounting. --- ## A/Mail will no longer send dupes out when it tosses a previously unknown area. --- ++ Fixed a problem with Areafix messages being processed twice with *.MSG netmail areas. --- ++ Reformatted the docs. I didn't realize they were misformatted until I switched to an editor that treats TAB-characters properly. --- ## Some netmail options, notably the FORWARD option, were not working correctly when a *.MSG netmail area wasn't used. Fixed. --- ++ Expanded the NOWARN option. You can now selectively disable different types of A/Mail's warning netmail. See the updated NOWARN information in the docs for details. --- ## There was a report that *.MSG netmail was getting an extraneous AREA: line, at least on one system. I don't know the reason, but it should be fixed now. --- ++ Some complaints about A/Mail locking up after trying to file-attach under FrontDoor led to an allocation change that might take care of the problem. --- ++ Changed the unarchiving code to always find the oldest archive to unpack, instead of going by the names. --- ++ Several people were apparently confused by the tail-first syntax of the ROUTE command, and ended up trying to route to ALL. Added code to detect this and complain. Also noted in TROUBLESHOOTING section of docs. --- ## A small bug in the BitArray code caused big problems on some systems when using -NT with no mail to toss. Fixed. --- Added the FILE_ID.DIZ file to the distribution archive. --- ## Fixed a problem causing A/Mail to ignore mail written in /ANDed netmail areas. --- ++ Added the AREAMGR.USE file, an instruction file describing the use of the Area Manager for your downlinks. --- ++ Modified routing code to allow the sysop to specify alternate routing for points belonging to other systems. If you don't specify a routing or flavoring command for a particular point, it will still be routed to its bossnode, along whatever flavoring and routing path you have specified for the bossnode. --- ++ Added the NORESCAN option to the Area Manager, to disallow rescan requests. --- ++ Any comments in an echolist are now included in a %QUERY (-Q) from the Area Manager. Lines will be cut off at 70 characters. Unfortunately, this feature is not easily possible from the %LIST (-L). That may be added in a future version. --- ++ Added some extra debugging code for the PKDVER problem. If you run across this problem, please report the numbers that will be listed in the logfile. This will allow future versions of A/Mail to toss these packets without a problem. Also noted this in the TROUBLESHOOTING section of the docs. --- ++ Greatly improved the file-sharing code for the Spitfire message base. --- ++ Something I hadn't forseen, though I should have... when using an /AND option between your FrontDoor netmail area and another, A/Mail was creating file-attach messages in both formats (as it was told to with the /AND...). A/Mail-created file-attaches are no longer created in the non-*.MSG netmail area in this case. --- ++ Some grunged packets were causing A/Mail to bomb out, after trying to create an outbound directory with a four-digit extension. This would cause problems like an Exception 13 under QEMM, apparently when DOS tried to parse the request. A/Mail will now put outbound mail for any zone over 4095 (the largest three-digit hexidecimal number) in another directory, preventing these problems. --- ## The -NOTIFY <address> command-line option was broken. Fixed. --- ++ Added the -BAD command-line option, to instruct A/Mail to attempt to re-toss messages it has previously put in the bad message area. --- ++ Several people have reported the Area Manager's -NOTIFY function was trying to send messages to 1:0/0. The only reason I can find for this is something in the AREAFIX block(s) that A/Mail didn't understand. I've told it to check every line in them now, to make sure it understand them, before continuing. If it runs across something it doesn't understand, it will tell the Sysop and refuse to run until the problem is fixed. --- ## Several flag bits were not being stripped out of messages before they were sent out. This should not have caused any real problems, but has now been corrected. --- ## A bug in my library was causing the Area Manager to go crazy on messages that didn't include a tearline (three dashes) at the end. Fixed. --- ** There was apparently a bug in the Synchronet code. I don't know how it got past both me and the Synchronet alpha testers. It seems A/Mail was not able to change to the various message directories, and because of this wasn't finding mail for export. Thanks to Paul Aljets for finding this, and his patient help in tracking it down. --- ## The /AND function will now work properly even with no addresses after the first area. --- ++ FrontDoor-style file-attaches will now be marked PRIVATE, and will be flavored DIRECT if no other flavor is specified. --- Version 2.00 (public release) ============================= ++ The -NOTIFY command line option can now be used to notify only selected addresses by specifying them after -NOTIFY. The original behavior, notifying all nodes, is still available if you do not specify an address. --- ++ Added the NONOTIFY option, to tell A/Mail's Area Manager what addresses to ignore during a -NOTIFY command. See the docs for full details. --- ++ Added the ShowArrived option for Hudson format, as FreeMail had. I thought this was already in here, until someone remarked that it had been one of his favorite features in FreeMail... --- It seems A/Mail's routing and flavoring doesn't work with FrontDoor-style mailers. Instead of changing things around this close to release, and perhaps breaking things that are working now, I've noted this limitation in the docs. Since FrontDoor-style mailers have built-in routing and flavoring capabilities, this shouldn't be a major problem. --- ++ Added the DumpUnknown option, for systems using Planet Connect. This will eliminate the need to define all the areas PC is sending; just define the ones you want, and DumpUnknown will ignore messages for any others. I *highly* recommend this option for all systems using Planet Connect, as it will free up a lot of memory A/Mail would otherwise have to spend storing the unused areas. --- ++ The end-of-run statistics now report the "tossing time" as well as the total time. This is the time A/Mail itself was running, as opposed to the time used by external programs (archivers/unarchivers). It also gives statistics based on both times, for comparison purposes. --- ## The "status report" messages created by A/Mail were getting an unnecessary address at the beginning of the Subject line (Spitfire format). Fixed. --- ## The A/Mail wasn't recognizing the FREQ bit in the Hudson format. Fixed. --- ++ The Spitfire format includes a redundant 'space' character after all newlines. A/Mail will now strip them out when exporting messages. --- ## The /GATE option was putting the wrong address in the Origin lines of the GATEd messages. Fixed. --- ## A bug in the new FidoLib seems to have caused random garbage in some messages. Fixed. --- ## Hudson-base FREQs were not being processed properly. Should be fixed now. --- ## The -NOTIFY option was only notifying every other node (oops!). Fixed. --- Version 2.00 Alpha-7 ==================== ++ Rescans! A downlink may now request a rescan of an area you have on your system (with -R or %RESCAN), and all messages in the area(s) will be dumped into packets for him. This current works only with *.MSG, Hudson, and Spitfire formats; it will be added for Synchronet formats later, there just isn't enough time now. --- ++ Added the -NOTIFY command line option. Similar to that of Areafix, -NOTIFY tells A/Mail to send a list of the echos currently connected to all nodes listed in the AREAFIX sections of the config file. --- ++ The Area Manager now understands %LIST, %QUERY, and %RESCAN in the body of the message. Previously it only understood -L, -Q, and -R in the subject line. --- ++ Added the AREAMGR LIST option, to tell the Area Manager to always append a list of the echos being received by the node it's answering when it processes an area change request. --- ++ Added the AREAMGR SENDNOW option. Should be fairly obvious, please check the docs for details. --- ## The Area Manager was looking for a standard tearline (a line starting with three dashes and an optional space) to terminate a message. It didn't understand lines that had more than three, as some people use instead; now it will. --- ++ In ECHOLISTs, A/Mail will now ignore lines that start with a TAB or four or more spaces. Some echolists use this to wrap around long lines. --- ++ When using -NT, A/Mail will now check each message to see if it's addressed to Areafix. If it is, the message will be processed. Note that, to prevent A/Mail from processing it multiple times, the original *.MSG message will be deleted; if you don't have another netmail format for A/Mail to put the original into, it will be lost. --- ## A/Mail should no longer add blank lines to the *.?LO files in BinkleyTerm setups. This was causing minor problems with the Portal of Power mailer. --- ## Discovered and fixed a possible problem with the overlay manager in the DOS version. I don't yet know what effect this will have on the program. --- ## There was one last problem with the /GATE option. Messages that came in the /GATE from one side were not being imported. Should be fixed now. --- ## Improved the code for NOTOSS to prevent problems caused by extra spaces. --- ++ The Hudson SEATBELT feature now stops the Hudson base at 15.5MB, instead of 15.9. This should give a little room for other utilities which don't check the size. --- ## Another problem in dealing with FrontDoor-style netmail was fixed. A/Mail would endlessly process a netmail message created by FrontDoor if FD couldn't find the node it was addressed to. --- ## Hudson-format Area Manager messages are now noted in the NETMAIL.BBS file, used by Hudson-base scanners for quick access to unsent messages. --- ** IMPORTANT: On Spitfire systems, A/Mail will now use the NETMAIL flag on messages, unless disabled with the new IGNORENM option. --- ++ A/Mail will now recognize lines in the areafile that start with ;+ as lines it should pay attention to. All other programs should ignore such lines, since they are behind a semi-colon. See the docs for examples. --- ## There was a small but very nasty bug in the /GATE code. Fixed. Thanks to Mike Weaver for his assistance on this one. --- ++ Added a small modification to allow for file-request messages with passwords on Bink-style systems. Use "<filename> !<password>" in the subject or @FREQ line, same as FrontDoor. --- ++ The FORCEKILLSENT option will now turn on the KILL-SENT bit for *all* *.MSG netmail A/Mail creates. If you use a non-*.MSG netmail area with FrontDoor, this will get rid of the resulting *.MSG netmail messages after they're sent. --- ## The FIXDATES option added in alpha-6 was reporting all messages had their dates fixed. This was a false report; fixed now. --- ++ Added a FROMSYSOP option to the Area Manager, for those whose uplinks area managers insist that Areafix messages be from the sysop, not Alexi/Mail. --- ++ In response to a complaint that recent alphas are much slower than earlier ones, I've made some small changes to various parts of the program. I don't yet know how much of a difference they will make, but it should help some. --- FrontDoor-style file-request messages are now marked kill-sent when A/Mail has to create them. --- ## The more efficient way alpha-6 treated netmail on FrontDoor-style systems caused a problem with file-request and file-attach messages. Fixed. --- ## The Spitfire @FATT/@FREQ had a bug that would cut off the remainder of the netmail message when used. Fixed. --- ++ A/Mail was not converting outgoing Spitfire messages addressed to Sysop to the SysopCvt name. It will now. --- Version 2.00 Alpha-6 ==================== ++ Added the FIXDATES option, to correct inbound/outbound message dates as necessary. See the docs for details. --- ++ Added the read-only option to the Areafile. Activate this for a particular node by adding an exclaimation point before its address in the AREAS.BBS file: "!109/812". See the AREAFILE section of the docs for further details. --- ++ Added the REPORTSTATS option, to turn on area statistics. When active, this notes the number and size of tossed/scanned messages on an area-by-area basis in the logfile. --- ## A/Mail was counting *.MSG file-attaches as messages in its stats. Should be fixed now. --- ++ Alexi/Mail, when encountering a netmail message, would put it in a packet addressed to the recipient. While this is fine on BinkleyTerm-style systems, it is inefficient on FrontDoor systems -- a *.MSG file-attach is made for the netmail packet, when the message could be put in *.MSG format and left for FrontDoor to deliver directly. This has now been changed. --- ## A bug in the Spitfire-format netmail prevented proper flavoring. Fixed. --- ## There was a bug in the Area Manager code that would cause NETMAIL areas to be deleted on some systems. Fixed. --- ++ Some other tosser programs, notably Squish, were confused by A/Mail's Areafix responses. This should be taken care of now. --- ++ I had one report that miscellaneous garbage in the *.MSG headers was being displayed by FrontDoor's reader. I've cleared all such information from the headers to prevent further problems. This should also solve the problems of the SENT bit not always being cleared properly. --- ## There was a problem with the Area Manager, when creating non-*.MSG return messages. The messages were not being marked "unsent". Fixed. --- ++ The internals of the config-reading stuff have been heavily modified, saving some space and making future expansion easier. This should not affect anyone, unless I made a mistake while converting it. --- ++ The NOTOSS option was not warning the Sysop if it was used without a *.MSG netmail area, which it needs to work. Fixed. --- ## Fixed a bug in the Hudson/multi-Hudson scanning. This caused some unsent messages not to be found when scanning. SCANALL should no longer be necessary for proper operation. --- ## Spitfire quick-scan had another bug, which appeared on areas with fewer messages than the quick-scan number. Fixed. --- ## In FrontDoor-style systems, the new Area Manager would put its outgoing mail directly into the non-*.MSG netmail area, if one exists, when using -NT on the command line. The messages will now be put in the proper *.MSG netmail area instead. --- ++ The IN-TRANSIT flag is now stripped from imported netmail. This should prevent problems where A/Mail would not let certain messages continue on. Version 2.00 alpha-5 ==================== A/Mail now logs the area as well as message number when exporting messages. --- ++ Alexi/Mail, unlike FreeMail, was not storing dupe-detection information on messages written on your system. This would not cause a problem, but it prevented such messages from being caught as dupes if they came back, as they would with a Planet Connect system. Fixed. --- ## In at least one case, the tearline and @Via lines were moved over one space too far. Fixed. --- ## The Spitfire @FATT and @FREQ features weren't working. They should be fixed now. --- ** The Areafix-style Area Manager is finally ready! Though the rescan ability is not available yet, A/Mail should otherwise be ready to manage its own areas. See the new INTEGRATED AREA MANAGER section of the docs for setup and usage. --- ++ A/Mail will now attempt to get zone information from Stone-Age type-2 packets. If this causes zone problems, use the FUZZYZONE option. --- ## Point-generated mail was being sent back to the point that created it. Should now be fixed in most cases. --- ## Spitfire netmail addressed as "<addr> <subject>" on the subject line wasn't getting the address stripped in the exported message. Fixed. --- ++ Netmail had a small problem -- it was going out as echomail in area "NETMAIL". Fixed. --- The /GATE option was putting the gating origin line in the message base on the gating system. While this caused no problems, it was somewhat confusing. Now changed. --- ++ The STORESEEN option, which allowed the SEEN-BY and PATH information to be stored in the Hudson-format message base, was not documented in previous versions. It now is. Also fixed a minor bug in it, that would cause the SEEN-BY lines thus imported not to be hidden. --- ++ Added the LIST and FORWARD options. These were both in FreeMail, but only worked if your system was set up a particular way, which wasn't very well documented. In A/Mail, both will work with any kind of setup. --- ## MSGID lines are now added to locally-generated echomail as well as netmail. --- ## Messages tossed from the UNKNOWN area weren't being marked as SENT, producing duplicates when a new echo arrived. Fixed. Version 2.00 alpha-4 ==================== ## Finally found and fixed the Hudson-corruption bug! --- ## Fixed another problem with the Spitfire quick-scan. --- ++ Added the /BRIDGE, /GATE, and /AND options (finally!). --- ++ The dupe-detection code was catching too many false dupes. I've changed the calculation method slightly, which should stop most of these, at the risk of allowing some true duplicate messages through. --- ** Alexi/Mail now understands the "type 2.2" extended packet format. It will identify which type of packet it's dealing with (2.2, 2+, or "stone age" type 2) and pull as much information as it can from it. The 2.2 and 2+ formats offer zone and point fields; the standard type 2 format does not. For now, A/Mail will only create type 2+ packets (superior to 2.2 in my opinion); this may change in the future to match whatever type of packet the other system is sending. --- ++ SECURE mode now honors the FUZZYZONE option, which should allow SECURE operation even with stone-age type 2 packets. --- ++ A/Mail will now add a MSGID line to locally-generated messages that don't already have one. --- ## The NOTOSS option wasn't working. Fixed. --- Added the NOPAUSE option, to disable the five-second pause at the end of the run if it bothers you. --- ++ Russ Trahan pointed out that, although Alexi/Mail and many other programs will *create* outbound directories as needed, there is nothing to remove them when they are empty. A/Mail will now do so. --- ## In some instances, A/Mail would dupe all messages back to the sender in alternate networks. This should be fixed now. --- ## A/Mail will now strip out the 'soft carriage returns' added into messages by some reader programs. --- ## Found and fixed a bug that would cause HIDDEN addresses to be shown in the SEEN-BY lines of messages. --- ## Found and fixed another Spitfire bug, this one was probably causing the "Carbon Copy" problem. --- ## Found two problems with routing. The first was rare, and would only occur when a ROUTE command didn't include a flavor. The second would show up whenever the format <zone>:ALL was used. Both fixed. Thanks to James Young for his help tracking these down -- and his patience, one of these has been a problem for him since FreeMail 1.08! --- ++ Added the NOKILL option to STOPSIGN. See the docs for details. --- ++ For registered users, your registration number will now appear in the tearline if you use RETEAR REPLACE. This will allow those with low numbers to show it off. ;-) --- ## In the "removed *.MSG netmail SENT bit" fix, I made a mistake -- fixed. Version 2.00 alpha-3 ==================== ## A/Mail wasn't recognizing Spitfire netmail addresses on the subject line. Fixed. --- ++ Converted the DOS version of A/Mail to use overlays. Base effect: A/Mail will now run in about 45K less memory (a standard configuration with dupe-detection now needs only 305K, instead of the 350K previous alphas needed). The only cost is (or should be, anyway) a few extra seconds to read the config files. If you notice this version running significantly slower than previous alphas, please let me know and include a copy of your config files -- I can probably move some functions around to recover the speed. This will sharply reduce the memory expense of adding new features as well, especially new message-base formats. --- ## I thought I had fixed the bug in the SHARE-detection that left a zero-length temporary file behind. It was only half-fixed. :-/ The rest of it is now fixed as well. --- ## Flavored netmail addressed to another system's point was not being routed through that system's bossnode as it should have been. Fixed. --- ## There was another problem with using a root directory for the WORKDIR (or just about anything else). Fixed. --- ## It has been brought to my attention that FrontDoor won't show a netmail message to you as new mail if the "sent" bit of the message is on. A/Mail was turning this bit on by default. I don't believe it will disrupt anything, so I have removed it from *.MSG netmail (only). --- ## The Spitfire quick-scan feature wasn't working. I can't make a meaningful test of it here, but it should be fixed. --- ## The bug that has been causing Hudson-base corruption should no longer show up. I *still* don't know what's causing it (though I suspect some broken "redundant read optimizing" somewhere). A/Mail is taking a shotgun approach to the problem -- we'll see how well it works. --- ** There was a problem using Spitfire-format areas with conference numbers over 255. Fixed. --- ## Fixed a minor cosmetic problem in some warning netmail messages. --- ## The multi-Hudson support was broken. :-( A simple problem, now fixed, but it made A/Mail unusable with multiple Hudson bases. --- ## It seems A/Mail didn't like having to create more than one Hudson base during a run. Fixed. --- ## A/Mail wouldn't always remember where it left off in a packet, depending on why it exited. Fixed; it should now always remember where it left off. General improvements on the exit errorlevel stuff as well. --- ++ Added a DISKFULL condition to the EXIT option. See the docs for details. --- ## The CRC calculation in the Spitfire-format indexes was wrong. This would cause Spitfire BBS to miss these messages when scanning for personal mail. Fixed. --- ## Messages imported to Spitfire format with Alexi/Mail were getting garbage in the headers. I'm assuming this is caused by garbage in the reserved portions of the Spitfire header, which I have no documentation for. I've told A/Mail to clean those out, which should take care of the problem. --- ## The Origin line in Spitfire-format messages was getting your primary address in it, ignoring any /FROM lines. Fixed. --- Version 2.00 alpha-2 ==================== ## There was a bug that would only appear if A/Mail ran for an hour or more -- the "total time" report would not report the number of hours. Fixed. --- ## If A/Mail ran into a configuration problem, it was possible it could cause a "divide by zero" error when it exited. Fixed. --- ## There was a problem determining the highest message number in the Spitfire format, now fixed. Thanks to Mike Grant for helping me pin this one down. --- ## A test file created by the DOS version while checking for SHARE was not being deleted. Fixed. --- ## If using the root directory on a drive, A/Mail would complain that it couldn't find the directory. Fixed. --- ## The STRIPCTL option was stripping out newline characters, causing all tossed messages to appear as a single line. Oops. <grin> Fixed. --- ** There is a bug in the Hudson-base code that sometimes causes all messages tossed during a run to have the same message number. I haven't discovered the cause yet -- I'm working on it as fast as I can. A renumber and reindex with FreeMail or another Hudson-maintenance program will fix the message base until the next time it happens. :-/ --- ## A bug in the message parsing code caused address problems with INTL, TOPT, and FMPT lines. This could have caused a number of other problems as well. Thanks to Tony Mann for his patient help in tracking down this and several other bugs. --- ## A bug that would cause some zone information to be lost from *.MSG netmail messages was fixed. This caused, among other things, duplicate file-attach messages to be generated for mail in alternate zones, when used with FrontDoor. --- ## Some problems that should have generated warning netmail messages weren't, due to a bug. Fixed. --- Version 2.00 alpha-1 ==================== !! Since this version is the first since FreeMail 1.10, all major changes between the programs are documented in the FREEMAIL.DIF file. Later versions will use this file instead. ---