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- IMPORTANT NOTES ABOUT THIS PRERELEASE (April 16, 1998)
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- ! If you're upgrading from YAM 1.3.x to YAM 2.0, make a backup
- ! of the whole YAM directory before you start the installation.
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- This pre-release fixes some bugs of the last version and contains
- a couple of new features.
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- Fixed bugs:
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- - Search window crashed due to trashed memory after first search
- - Sending mail sometimes produced a 'Read error on mailfile'
- - 'Send mail on startup' didn't work when 'Get mail on startup' was
- enabled
- - Subjects starting with 'Re[x]:' weren't sorted correctly
- - Width of last column in folder/message lists couldn't be set
- - YAM didn't remove mail from server when there were no messages
- to download
- - Filter 'CustomField' wasn't read from configuration file
- - Empty From field in outgoing MDNs
- - Folder popup in filter config didn't show new user-defined folders
- - Filename of message wasn't passed as an argument to filter action
- 'Execute'
- - Transfer window wasn't activated in import/export mode
- - Some grammatical errors
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- Modifications:
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- - When moving messages, YAM now remembers the last destination folder
- - Version check now compares compilation dates instead of version
- numbers
- - Color selection now uses Poppen object
- - In multi-reply and multi-forward, quoted messages are sorted by date
- - Stack size for external commands is now set to 12 KB
- - Phrases and quote string can contain one ore more spaces at the
- beginning
- - Improved index handling (smaller risk of working with outdated index
- files, e.g. after a crash)
- - German catalog update
- - Increased internal stack size to 20K
- - Increased maximum number of folders, filters and MIME viewers to
- 100 each
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- New features:
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- - English documentation
- - GUI option for color of 2nd level quote
- - Added config page for MIME viewers and options
- - In the read window, clickable URLs are now highlighted
- - Toolbars are now cropped if they don't fit on the screen
- - Implemented some Arexx commands: APPNOBUSY, GETCONFIGINFO, FOLDERINFO,
- HELP, HIDE, INFO, LISTSELECT, MAILCOPY, MAILINFO, MAILMOVE,
- MAILUPDATE, MAILWRITE, NEWMAILFILE, SCREENTOBACK, SCREENTOFRONT,
- SETFLAG, SHOW, WRITEBCC, WRITECC, WRITEFROM, WRITELETTER, WRITEOPTIONS,
- WRITEQUEUE, WRITEREPLYTO, WRITESEND, WRITESUBJECT, WRITETO
- - Optional NewIcons style toolbar buttons
- - Config option 'Wrap header' sets read window default
- - Config option 'Use textstyles' sets read window default
- - Recognition of user-defined filetypes using filename extensions
- - Config option 'Identify application/octet-stream attachments'
- - Hidden config options to set path to public and secret keyrings
- - Original recipient or complete message headers can be inserted
- in forward-text
- - Opening and closing phrases for replies can be set separately
- - Import MIME configuration from mime.types and mailcap files
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- Updated MUI classes:
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- - TextEditor.mcc/.mcp 15.4
- - BetterString.mcc/.mcp 11.2, HotkeyString.mcc 11.1
- - NList.mcc 19.86, NListview.mcc 19.60, NFloattext.mcc 19.46,
- NListviews.mcp 19.54
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- This version of YAM 2.0 is still in beta stage. XPK support
- and the ARexx interface aren't fully implemented yet, and there
- are probably some other functions that don't work as expected.
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- The final version of YAM 2.0 will be different
- from this prerelease in these points:
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- - Missing features implemented
- - Known bugs fixed
- - Localized for many other languages
- - More icon sets and example scripts included
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- The release date is not known yet. Go to the YAM
- website and register for updates if you want to
- be notified when the final version is ready.
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