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MicroDotII
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MicroDot II is an integrated standalone mailer and newsreader written by
Oliver Wagner (owagner@vapor.com). It is a part of the VaporWare suite
of Internet applications. For more information on MD2 or any other
VaporWare products, please see our website - http://www.vapor.com/.
Please use the included Installer script to install MD-2, the
required libraries and MUI custom classes.
Starting with this version, the old MD-2 keyfiles won't work anymore.
New keyfiles have been mailed out to everyone who already registered;
if you didn't receive your updated keyfile yet, please mail
<keyfile-update@vapor.com> stating where and when you originally
ordered MicroDot II.
MicroDot II Mailing list
------------------------
There is a support mailing list dedicated to discuss MD-2
related issues. To subscribe, mail to
<md-2-request@vapor.com>
and put "SUBSCRIBE" in the subject or body of the mail.
What's new in Release 1.3?
--------------------------
· Heavily improved protection against mail losses in
case of system crashes
· Improved URL detection in vapor_toolkit
· Network settings now allow using services not running
on their standard ports
· UIDL.history is now only used when required
What's new in Release 1.2?
--------------------------
· POP3 download manager. Get an overview of the mail in your
pop3 box and decide individually whether to download, delete
or ignore it
· various SMTP issues fixed
Core features
-------------
· mail and news fully integrated
· full MIME support. Backward compatibility with
uuencoded data in both reading and sending
messages. Direct processing of MIME data
according to MIMEPrefs settings
· transparent PGP support with AmigaPGP 2.x.x and 5.x.x
· integrated reader with automatic URL and E-Mail
address detection. Click on URLs to view them
in your favorite browser, or click on E-Mail
addresses to quickly send a mail from within MD-2
· versatile ARexx port
· fully configurable buttons / keyboard shortcuts
utilizing ARexx commands
· versatile filtering system to process incoming and
outgoing messages
· fully threaded display, even for mail folders.
Allows you to handle mailing lists like newsgroups.
· supports multiple independant accounts for mail & news
· utilizes the latest protocol definitions (ESMTP,
8BITMIME sending, NNTP XOVERs, POP3 UIDL and APOP)
with fallbacks for oudated server software
· supports X-Face to send small photos, logos or other
pictures with your messages
· supports Contact Manager, when installed
· Works with Genesis, Miami, AmiTCP and as225/inet225, no additional
libraries.
What's missing?
---------------
There is still a lot of stuff planned for the next releases.
On the ToDo list are, for example,
· getting mail from several POP3 mailboxes into a single
account
· Catalog translations. No translations have been done so far
due to the many GUI changes which are still going on
· ARexx extensions
· proper API to access the database on a low level
· a ZConnect/UUCP network module
· inline viewing of image attachments
=====================================================================
Full changes history since early alpha versions
===============================================
(changes before Version 0.198alpha have been removed)
0.199
-----
- now properly prefixes signatures with "-- \n" instead of "--\n"
- major crash when the level of thread indentation was "too high";
it now "wraps" the tree when the thread nests too often
- fixed a rather nasty hits orgy/crash when trying to send mails
without having a newsgroup in the group list
- fixed a bug with retrieving the group list -- when the server
was too lame to understand "LIST NEWSGROUPS", a spurious error
message showed up. Also, newsgroups not listed by those comments
weren't shown at all, instead of simply having no description.
0.200
-----
- SMTP send will now silently convert 8bit text to quoted printable
when the receiving SMTP demon is too lame to understand ESMTP
8BITMIME bodies. You wouldn't expect this in 1997, really.
- added new Rexx command "ExtractSelectedMsgs FILE,PARTS,APPEND/S"
to extract currently selected messages into a file. File defaults
to the username part of the From:, PARTS is either "0"
for the whole message (default) or a part number.
0.201
-----
- ExtractSelectedMsgs PARTS is now a /Keyword, to avoid messup
with missing filenames
- ExtractSelectedMsgs will now always call upon the standard
save parts filerequester, unless NOREQ switch is given.
- fixed SMTP send crash
- fixed outgoing quoted-printable encoding
- fixed MIME header encoding
0.202
-----
- will now support NList.mcc if installed (V19+)
- fixed aborting of search
- fixed fuzzy index searching
- fixed ExtractSelectedMsgs abort
- ExtractSelectedMsgs now also works in the message
index
- fixed flags for arexx message call so that internal
button command syntax is similar to "rx"
- added new menu item, arexx command "DownloadSelected"
to download all selected messages and store them in
the database. Only works in the message list.
0.203
-----
- now generates X-Priority: and Precedence: headers
from the "Priority" cycle in the new message window
- now parses X-Priority: header for incoming mails
(meeting the Eudora "standard")
- now shows the message Priority in the message overview
in a new column
- sort order in msglist is now visualized with arrows
in the directional buttons
- it's now possible to dragselect entries in the group
and message lists
- news-on-demand download window now opens again when
fetching article takes longer than 2 seconds
- fixed prefs window page listview
- network get now saves all the messages indexes more
often to prevent index loss due to system crashes
0.204
-----
- fixed prefs window
- fixed command calling (again)
- calling MIMEPrefs from the menu now works
- now properly supports MIMEPrefs based viewing
0.205
-----
- fixed opening of fonts
- groupmanager window now supports multiselect
again
- added UseOldStyleLists tooltype/shell arg
to disable usage of nlist.mcc
- will now DELE mail on the server if it's
already there locally
- added new ultra hyper cool mail filtering system
(see Prefs/Message filters). Old filters will no
longer be used, but are silently converted
to new filters on first start. Note:
Execute and Forward To are currently dysfunctional,
and the filters are only applied to mail ATM.
(bah, so much work for 6 lines of history
entry)
- fixed mouse drag select not properly activating
"multi select" mode for further operations
0.206
-----
- actually, "Contains" behaved like "Is". Lame
bug.
0.207
-----
- fixed creating of new groups (bogus default
parameters)
- now permits blanks in group names
- fixed font opening in group list
- main lists now have a 1/1 pixel frame for a less
cramped look
0.208
-----
- fixed background filling in grouplist/msglist,
and column button widths in msglist
- it's now possible to mark and copy text to
clipboard in the reader window
0.209
-----
- added auto-mail polling (currently fixed to
5 minutes)
- it's now possible to rename existant
newsgroups and mail folders
- fixed lame bug in forward-without-edit: the first
textual part of the message wasn't properly dumped;
instead of the body, the header was dumped a
second time.
0.210
-----
- delete flag now has a red led in the message
reader flags line
- now calls MimePrefs with proper PUBSCREEN argument
- now uses improved high speed textlen/textfit routines
for much faster reader text layout
- renaming of a mail group now properly renames all
filter action destinations pointing at that
group
- now shows a note requester when old-style per group
filters have been autoconverted into new style filters
- grouplist and msglist now have a 1 pixel line leading
for a less cramped and classactish look
- fixed various minor miscalculations in the msglist layout
0.211
-----
- fixed mime type matching
- fixed missing mime prefs requester to no longer demand
MIMEPrefs being installed in AmIRC's directory
- fixed "Filters converte