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Changes ======= PLEASE NOTE: Starting with version 1.3.20.0, Hamster's sourcecode was released as Open Source: http://home.t-online.de/home/juergen.haible/hamsrc.htm "Hamster-Classic" is a successor of it, and the addition "Classic" was used to distinguish it from other successors. The authors or "Hamster-Classic" are: {JH} Juergen Haible, <juergen.haible@t-online.de> {TGL} Thomas G. Liesner, <tgl@gmx.de> Vr. 1.3.21.0 (06 Aug 2000; see also 1.3.20.10/.20 below) - Chg: List of new groups now reflects changes immediately to the client. {JH} - Fix: Rounding problem converting Delphi to Unix time (encodetime/HSC). {JH} - New: HSC: RasGetIP {JH} Vr. 1.3.20.20 (source update only): - Fix: Keep current view of logfile lines as long as possible if "[ ] Auto- Scroll" is disabled. {JH} - Fix: Decimal value of thread-ID in "X-Hamster-Trace"-line was reported as signed value (i.e. negative). {JH} - Fix: Wrong group description was used for new groups, if server does not support "LIST NEWSGROUPS wildmat". {JH} - Fix: Optional server list was not treated correctly on some of the script commands (HamNews...). {JH} - Fix: Disabled Delphi5's .AutoHotkeys ('&' in dynamic menu-items). {JH} - New: Path settings can now be changed in section [Directories] of file Hamster.ini. {TGL} - New: New checkbox "Find pulls immediately" on selection window for adding new news-pulls. {TGL} // added session persistence {JH} - New: New page "Errors+Warnings" on main window, which shows all logged errors and warnings since Hamster was started. {TGL} // shift list after ~30K entries {JH} - New: The sub-menu to run available scripts was removed and replaced by entries within the script-menu. {TGL} - New: Menu item "Script/Edit Modules" to edit available modules. {TGL} - New: The status-line of Hamster's main window and the hint-text of its tray-icon can now be changed in Hamster.ini ([Main] BottomLineFormat, HintFormat). {TGL} // changed placeholders to %XX; use also for internal default {JH} Vr. 1.3.20.10 (source update only): - Chg: Sources can now be compiled with Delphi5 without modifications. {JH} - Chg: Version ressources "ProductName", "Maintainer" and "Download" are now used for About-page. {JH} Vr. 1.3.20.0 (22 Jul 2000) See also: Changes of test versions 1.3.19.100/1.3.19.200 noted below. - Fix: Error "Zugriffsverletzung bei Adresse ...": 00443015 (Vr. 1.3.18.0), 00450E5D (Vr. 1.3.19.0). - Fix: Invalid HELP-reply (SMTP server). - Chg: Removed XHAMSTER-commands (NNTP/POP3/SMTP server). - Fix: AUTH failed if used with SMTP-after-POP3 (SMTP server). - Chg: Removed "[X] Full"-selections for logfiles. PLEASE NOTE: Starting with version 1.3.19, Hamster's former internal groups named "hamster.misc", "hamster.posted" and "hamster.errors" were replaced by one group named "internal.misc". This was changed to not confuse YOU (;-) with other groups named "hamster.*", because "hamster" is planned to be used (and partly is already used) as the hierarchy-name for Hamster-related groups. To continue with the former groups (not suggested), you have to add the following lines under [Setup] in Hamster.ini: internalgroup.default=hamster.misc internalgroup.postok=hamster.posted internalgroup.posterrors=hamster.errors See online-help under "Files and Directories" for details on these settings. Vr. 1.3.19.200 (09 Jul 2000) BETA - Chg: Modified (unified) former functions used to save articles. This change affects: pulling news, get news by Message-ID, import articles, local posting of H.-generated articles. - New: Report GROUP-errors when pulling news (e.g. outdated groups) in internal.misc (Hamster.ini: internalgroup.pullerrors=...). - New: HSC: HamFlush - New: OLE: ControlFlush - Chg: Ham.exe: Flush history after importing articles. - Chg: File '.\Server\(servername)\newgrps.txt' is not used any more. - New: Note time when group- or description-list was reloaded (file Server.ini: [Pull] ReloadGroupsLast=/ReloadDescsLast=). - New: "Auto-scroll"-checkbox on Log-page. - New: "Leave mails on server" can now be enabled for a specific server (Server.ini, [POP3], LeaveOnServer=1). - New: Optionally add trace-header to posted articles (Hamster.ini: [Setup] news.addxhtrace). - Chg: Hamster timed out if a pulled article contained any ASCII-0 character (fix for problems with msnews.microsoft.com?). Vr. 1.3.19.100 (02 Jul 2000) BETA - Fix: POP3-LIST timed out with specific providers (telda, uunet). - New: Added POST-result to archive-copies of posted news. - Fix: Invalid group-handles caused Hamster to "die" instead of just returning an error-value (scripts). - Chg: Various minor changes (additional logfile-entries, enhanced error-checking etc.) - Chg: Report message-number in NewsOut.log. - Chg: Modified entries in MailOut.log and NewsOut.log (add message number; omit path). - Fix: Tray-icon did not disappear after starting Hamster by OLE. - Fix: Number of jobs left shown as tray-hint was wrong. - New: SMTP server now supports EHLO and authentication with AUTH LOGIN. If authentication is required, it has to be enabled under: "File / Configuration / Local servers / SMTP / [X] SMTP AUTH". - New: SMTP client now supports authentication with AUTH LOGIN. It has to be enabled separately for each server, that requires it (add a line "AUTH=1" under "[SMTP]" in server's file "Server.ini"). - New: HSC: HamSendMailAuth - New: OLE: ControlRunSendMailAuth Vr. 1.3.19.0 (12 Jun 2000) BETA - Chg: Modified history to handle chunk-files concurrently. - Chg: Replaced old handler for news-jobs with a new one. - New: Show number of remaining jobs in the status-line (again). - Chg: Removed former pull- and post-threads and replaced them with a "news-jobs"-thread, which handles all transfers to and from newsservers. Former pull- and post-commands are now simulated to make use of this new thread-type, where "post-jobs" always have a higher priority than "pull-jobs". - New: HSC: HamNewsJobs* - New: OLE: NewsJobs* - Chg: New default for number of pull-jobs per server is now 1. - Chg: Same naming convention of *.msg-files for news as with mails (unique/growing numbers, no leading zeros). - Chg: Running scripts are not counted as "active tasks" any more, so HamThreadCount (hsc) and ControlThreadCount (OLE) might return lower values than in former Hamster-versions. - Chg: Replaced former MD5-implementation with a new one (especially used for history-entries). - Chg: Replaced former Blowfish-implementation with a new one (used for coding stored passwords). - Chg: Updated to PCRE Vr. 3.1 (regular expressions), which is used with a new interface. - Chg: Replaced former tray-icon-component with direct API calls. - Chg: Client-threads (i.e. transfers to/from remote servers) now use blocking socket-connections. - New: Menu "File / Refresh menu items" - Chg: Scripts to start were moved to new sub-menu "Script / Run". - New: Menu "Script / Edit", "Script / Stop all scripts" - Chg: The question for "Rebuilding global lists now?" is now asked (and executed) when adding new pulls. - New: Show currently connected clients in "Threads"-list. - New: Add and expand "Path:"-header in posts to local groups (note: "local group" = not pulled from other servers). - Fix: "crazy endwhile"-effect (HSC; loop-stack was filled with wrong instruction-pointer when used in conjunction with function-calls) - New: AtAdd (HSC) now supports times round midnight ("23.00"-"01.00") - Fix: SMTP multiline reply was treated wrong (-> GMX's HELO-reply). - Chg: Special "nntpdefault"-account is not related with MODE READER (NNTP) any more. MODE READER is just ignored (again). - Chg: Replaced former header-decoding (QP, Base64) with a new one (used with "~"-filters and to display killfile-log). - Chg: Internal groups used by Hamster (hamster.misc/.posted/.errors) were renamed and replaced by a single group: "internal.misc". This new group is automatically created when starting Hamster, the old ones will be retained but will not be used any more. The name(s) of the internal groups may now be changed with settings in Hamster.ini. - Fix: Bug in operator precedence in conjunction with parens (HSC). Vr. 1.3.18.0 (07 May 2000) BETA - Chg: If no password is set for a given server, it is assumed now, that none is needed (providers which auth. by dialup-IP). - Fix: HSC: HamSendMail (3rd par), HamMessage (2nd par), Parser (WSP and parens in function-calls/-declarations) - Chg: HSC: IniRead/IniWrite now use current directory by default, use "HScripts.ini" if no file is given and use "[Common]" if no section is given. - New: HSC: HamMessage(8), HamArtTextExport, HamArtDeleteMid, HamArtLocateMid, HamScoreList, HamScoreTest, DirWindows, DirSystem, VarSet, Sgn, For, Assert, ListBox, RE_Match, RE_Extract, RE_Parse, RE_Split, FileSize, FileTime, ListRasEntries, ErrCatch et.al. - New: OLE: ControlMessage(8) Vr. 1.3.17.0 (29 Apr 2000) BETA - Chg: "RasHangup" (OLE) and "ras.hangup" (.hsc) now also terminate connections not initiated by Hamster. - New: New script-engine activated by "#!hs2" in the first line of a .hsc-script (see helpfile for details). Old .hsc-scripts are still supported [til end of year?] but cannot be mixed with new-style scripts. - Fix: Hamster could become completely unresponsive if its password- option "?" (=ask when needed) was used. - Chg: Mailfilter "postto" now adds "Followup-To: poster" to every mail redirected to a newsgroup (former: only if mail had a "Mailing-List:"-header). - Chg: "LIST EXTENSIONS" (local NNTP) to make NetScape 6 work? Vr. 1.3.16.0 (16 Apr 2000) BETA - Fix: If multiple mailfilters matched, resulting recipients- and newsgroups-lists could contain duplicate entries. - Chg: Modified startup-behaviour to avoid some problems when starting scripts or "clicking" around while Hamster has not finished its initialization. - Chg: Disabled Full-Log-setting under "File/Configuration/Settings". If you save a new Log-setting, a prior "[X] Full"-setting is removed. - Chg: "Remaining Pull-Jobs"-display removed, as its interpretation requires a good knowledge on how Hamster works internally and the value shown was not the value one would expect. - Chg: File ".\Server\allpulls.txt" introduced in Vr. 1.3.15.0 is neither created nor used any more - just delete it. - Chg: File ".\Server\alldescs.txt" is now always used when selecting new news-pulls. It is only rebuild automatically, when Hamster is started and the file is missing. If you select "File/Configuration" and Hamster has noticed, that the file should be rebuild (e.g. groups- or description-lists were reloaded or new groups were reported from one of the news- servers), you are asked to rebuild the file. - Chg: There are now two steps when selecting new pulls. First step is to select the wanted groups in the upper part of the window by groupname and description. Second step is to find and select newsservers, which carry the selected groups. - Chg: If a newsserver reports new newsgroups, the corresponding descriptions are now loaded immediately and are added (e.g.) to the "New groups"-message posted to "hamster.misc". Vr. 1.3.15.0 (09 Apr 2000) BETA - Fix: "notify"-command (mail-filters) without given recipients did not send notification-messages to determined recipients in all cases. - Fix: ControlWaitIdle-command (OLE) with a timeout-value greater than zero returned immediately. - New: Added matching kill-/ignore-lines of mailfilters to notification- messages. - New: Display number of remaining "Pull-Jobs" while pulling groups. Note: Current design does not allow to show an exact value here. - Fix: Local groups could be added more than once. - Chg: Default startup-mode is now "show as window" and not "as icon". - New: Added "[X] Minimize on close"-setting. - New: Killfile-Log: Added "Exit" to context-menu. - New: Killfile-Log: Last sort-order is now saved. - New: Killfile-Log: Set/save sort-sequence for two additional fields. - Fix: Hide input when entering passwords. - Fix: After certain "minimize"-actions, Hamster could be left in an unresponsible state (e.g. Hamster-icon ignores mouse-clicks). - Chg: Don't start "purge" for groups with "days to keep" of "0". This also disables error-detection and -correction for such groups, so they remain really "untouched" when purging. - Chg: Delay and skip groups on purging if they are currently "in use". - New: Added Newsserver-settings, which allow reloading the list of available newsgroups and (re-) loading the list of available newsgroup-descriptions. Note: Unlike group-list, descriptions are NOT loaded by default. - New: Menu "File/Rebuild global lists" creates (by now) two new files: - .\Server\allpulls.txt: Available groups of all servers. - .\Server\alldescs.txt: All groups with their descriptions. These lists are also build automatically when starting Hamster, if they are missing or not up to date any more. They can also be rebuild immediately by scripts using "news.rebuildgloballists" (.hsc) or by "ControlRunRebuildGlobalLists" (OLE). - New: When adding new "News-Pulls", the newsgroup-descriptions are now displayed and may be used for finding, if "[X] Descriptions" is marked. If no descriptions were loaded or none are available, a question-mark is shown instead. Vr. 1.3.14.0 (25 Mar 2000) BETA - New: Mail-filters (see "MailFilt.hst" in helpfile for details). Additional notes for 1.3.13.100-betatesters: - Fix: "postto" additionally generated a mail-message. - Fix: "notify"-command overwrote recipient-list. - New: settings in Hamster.ini ("mail.filter.*"): - number of TOP-lines to load for notification-msgs - global size-filters (without pre-loading of headers) - Chg: Only one notification should be generated now, if "ignore already loaded mails" is enabled and server supports UIDL. - Fix: Add "Followup-To: poster"-header on "postto", if mail contains a "Mailing-List:"-header. - New: Added support for newsgroup-types "y" (posting allowed), "n" (no posting allowed) and "m" (moderated). Restrictions: - the types have to be set manually under "File/Configuration/ Newsgroups/Settings" (default is always "y") - "m" has no special meaning yet, it works like "y" - New: Added (yellow) warning if logfile-setting "[X] Full" is enabled. - New: "call"-command for internal .hsc-scripts. - New: Settings in Hamster.ini: - password.codebase=2 A value of 2 now disables usage of OS-specific values completely. - purge.mhistory.keepdays=14 Number of days to keep entries in mail-history (default: 14). Vr. 1.3.13.0 (15 Feb 2000) BETA - Fix: Listbox-entries were partly unreadable when using 'large fonts'. - Fix: Since 1.3.12, overview-values for lines and bytes returned from Hamster's NNTP-server were wrong (mostly too low). - Chg: Usage of APOP is now controlled by the given password. If it is preceded by "APOP:", APOP is used, USER/PASS otherwise. To force USER/PASS, a password may be preceded with "PASS:". - Fix: Colors in lists were not updated immediately in some cases and were wrong, if a server was set to be readonly. - New: The length of a line and the size of the complete text sent to Hamster's local servers is now limited by default to prevent from DoS-attacks. If one of the limits is exceeded, connection will be terminated. The defaults (1000/2MB) may be changed in Hamster.ini under "[Setup]"; a value of 0 disables the limit: local.limit.linelen.(nntp|pop3|smtp)=1000 local.limit.textsize.(nntp|pop3|smtp)=2097152 - Fix: If authentication failed (get news/mails), Hamster nevertheless tried to continue in some cases. - Fix: Starting of a .hsc-script by command-line failed, if parameter- string contained a path, so association of file-type ".hsc" to "Hamster.exe" failed. - Fix: A mail got different Message-IDs if sent to internal accounts and external recipients at the same time. Vr. 1.3.12.0 (06 Feb 2000) BETA - New: Mark already selected news-pulls blue when selecting new pulls. - New: Mark local groups blue in newsgroup-list. - New: Use APOP instead of USER/PASS if remote POP3-server supports it. - New: Additional logfile named "RasDial.log", which contains an entry for each connection initiated by Hamster. - New: Added support for newsgroup-descriptions. The descriptions are loaded when the group is pulled. For local groups or if the newsserver doesn't support it, the descriptions can be changed under "File/Configuration/Newsgroups/Settings". - Fix: Newsgroups currently in use can't be "deleted" any more. - Chg: When pulling news, articles are additionally stored in the current group, even if this group is not listet in Newsgroups- header of the article (e.g. control-messages in control.*). - Fix: After timeouts a (useless) QUIT-command was sent, causing an additional delay until QUIT timed out, too. - New: To allow access for dynamically assigned IP-addresses (dial-up, DHCP), a special "LOCAL"-setting was added to "IPAccess.hst". The default-setting is "ALL,NA,LOCAL,127.0.0.1", which treats ALL local IP-addresses like "127.0.0.1". - Fix: New subscribed groups should be pulled first again. - New: Added new ControlMessage-numbers (OLE+.hsc) to hide/show main- window and tray-icon. - New/Chg: If a mail could not be delivered by SMTP for any reason: - Sender (or at least "admin") will get a notification by mail. - Delivery is tried again later for a given number of times. -> Hamster.ini: [Setup] sendmail.attempts.max=10 - If all attempts fail, the undeliverable mailfile is finally renamed to "*.err" (.del=0) or deleted (.del=1). -> Hamster.ini: [Setup] sendmail.attempts.del=0 - If only some of the given recipients are not accepted by the SMTP-server, the mail is now immediately send to the accepted ones. These recipients will be commented out in the mailfile ("!X-OK: ..."), so they will not get additional copies of the mail on further attempts. - If it's possible to reset the remote SMTP-server after an error occured, Hamster does not disconnect from server any more but tries to send additional waiting mails. - New: Disable Hamster's "Received:"-header for mails by setting "mail.addreceived=0" under "[Setup]" in Hamster.ini. - Chg: Some commands of local NNTP-server (especially XOVER) should now be faster in groups with large articles. - Fix: "Preferred Post-Server"-setting did not work as a "preference" when selecting a post-server for a given group. The group was somewhat (and unintentional) "fixed" to this specific server. - Chg: The yellow hint-window on tray-icon now shows a few items from the current status-line. Vr. 1.3.11.0 (11 Jan 2000) BETA - Fix: Error "NNTP.LoginUser-Exception #4: Zugriffsverletzung bei Adresse 004710F1 in Modul 'Hamster.exe' Lesen von Adresse 00000000" could finally be reproduced by me and (hopefully) be fixed. - New: To disable the automatic retrieval of new newsgroups from still not Y2K-compliant newsservers, change the "LastGMT="- setting in the appropriate Server.ini to "LastGMT=NEVER". - Chg/Dbg: Use Message-ID of article for additional history-lookup and -entry (was: Message-ID of XOVER-reply). Vr. 1.3.10.0 (03 Jan 2000) BETA - Chg: NEWGROUPS (local NNTP) now also supports broken "YMMDD"- and "1YYMMDD"-dates. - Chg: Options which can only be set manually by editing .ini-files: - Server.ini: [Newgroups] 4-Digit-Years=0 If set to 1, NEWGROUPS-command for this server is invoked with format "YYYYMMDD ...". - Fix: Connections to remote-servers were not terminated in all cases after timeouts (especially after XOVER/ARTICLE). - New: Two new levels for log-files named "Details" (=commands sent to remote-servers and their replies) and "Full" (=complete communication including article-/mail-data). Default for new installations was changed to also save more communication-"[X] Details". - Dbg: "Additional logfile-entries in client-auth..." part XIV. Vr. 1.3.9.0 (18 Dec 1999) BETA - Dbg: Disabled caching of client-threads. - Dbg: Additional logfile-entries in client-authentication, if "[X] Debug" is enabled. Vr. 1.3.8.0 (05 Dec 1999) BETA - Chg: Additional log-entries for local (NNTP-/POP3-) authentication. - Chg: Removed one possible reason for "... Lesen von Adresse 00000000"- exceptions. - Fix: "wait.delay" (internal scripts) did not work any more. - Chg: Removed "experimental", additional lookup of IP-address. - New: Confirmation-message if starting "Rebuild history" by menu. - New: Split long Received-header into two lines (local SMTP). - Fix: Deleting newsserver now also deletes its news-pulls. - Chg: "start.wait" (internal script) now always sets Hamster's root- directory as the "working directory" for the started program. Vr. 1.3.7.0 (28 Nov 1999) BETA - Fix: "ham import" tried to import "directories", not only files ... - New: Added "[X] Ignore already loaded mails, i.e. do not load them again"-setting to prevent from loading mails more than once, if deleting of mails is disabled. For this function to work, a history for mail-UIDLs was added (file: mails\mhistory.dat) and the purge-function was enhanced accordingly (period is by now fixed to 14 days). - New: Added "[X] Start as icon"-setting. - Chg: Note destination-newsgroups in hamster.posted-intro. - Fix: An active 'wait.delay' (internal script) could not be stopped. - Chg: HELO (local SMTP) is now optional. - Fix: Files and directories were not removed when deleting servers. - Chg: Added warning, if directory could not be deleted when deleting a server or a newsgroup (mostly due to non-Hamster-files). - Fix: Pull-thread for a given server was not stopped on timeouts, so download of different groups could become mixed up "a little", if answer for abandoned group still arrived when Hamster was already working with the next group. Additionally, a more detailed check for GROUP-reply was implemented. - Chg: Added consistency-checks based on file-sizes to recognized and delete damaged index-entries when purging articles. - Fix: Hamster is now able [again *sigh*], to detect and automatically rebuild missing newsgroup-indexfiles. - Chg: Added some log-entries to trim down some reported problems, which I could not reproduce here. - New: Added a new score-field named "Age", which is based on the Date:- header and gives the age of the article in days (e.g. to ignore all articles older than 14 days, use "=-9999 age %>14"). - New: OLE-function: NewsLocateMID2 (with Variant-pars for VBScript). - New: Mark last client-usage of a group in group's Data.ini ("[Info] LastClientRead=<timestamp>"). - Chg: Original "Xref"-header is now saved in "X-Old-Xref"-header. Vr. 1.3.6.0 (24 Oct 1999) BETA - Fix: "history.chunkbits"-setting had no effect yet. - Fix: Definable items of "Online"-menu did not work if called by tray-icon. - Chg: "Color" of tray-icon now depends on "Threads=..."-count instead of RasDial-state. - Fix: Invalid reply on HELO (SMTP) without domain-name. - Fix: Local dupes on concurrent downloads. - Fix: "ham import" created invalid Date:-header with option "-x". - Chg: Start internal script by command-line even if Hamster is already running. Already running tasks will be terminated in this case. - Chg: Accept non-RFC cancel-message of NetScape ... PLEASE NOTE: Starting with version 1.3.5, a new file-format is used for the history. If you are upgrading an older version of Hamster, the new files will be created automatically when starting the new Hamster for the first time. The old history-file "History.dat" in "Groups"- directory may (and should) be deleted manually. Vr. 1.3.5.0 (17 Oct 1999) BETA - New: The file-format of history-file has changed. New history-files will be created automatically when starting the new Hamster for the first time. - New: The new "[Setup] history.chunkbits=4"-setting in Hamster.ini controls, how many files will be used for history. - Chg: A small "Please wait"-window is displayed if history is rebuild automatically due to missing files. - Chg: More effective handling of groups-indexfiles (data.idx). - New: If an account with username "nntpdefault" and password "*" is created, its NNTP-settings will be used, if user accesses the local NNTP-server without prior authentication. This "auto-login" takes place, when client issues a "mode reader"-command. - Fix: Passwords in error-messages replaced by "[...]" in logfile. - New: Menu-item "File/Clear counters+log" - New: "~"-scoreentries now support base64-encoded headers. - Chg: Misleading reply on NNTP-POST if hdr/body-separator was missing. - Chg: POST-replies (NNTP) with recommended and finally used M-ID. - Fix: Indexfiles and history-files were saved too often and even if content has not changed (experimental-1.3.4.100 only). - New: New and enhanced functions for OLE- and internal scripts: - ControlMessage, message: Initiates some special functions like start/stop local servers, reset counters, exit. - New: When Hamster is started or minimized now, its main-window and taskbar-entry will be hidden. It is replaced by an icon in the taskbar notification area (system-tray). Double-click with left mouse-button restores the window, single click with right mouse-button displays menu. Vr. 1.3.4.0 (25 Sep 1999) BETA - Fix: When adding new groups with "News-Pulls", the groups were not generated and saved in all cases. - Chg: Modified article-parsing in a way, that Hamster is also able to load news from servers running "NNTP Service Microsoft« Internet Services 5.5" ... - Chg: Removed misleading connection-thread from thread-list. - Chg: Display local server replies as "Info" now, not as "Debug". - New: Display number of loaded mails. Slightly modified the format of the status-line to keep it small. - Chg: Additionally show name of winsock-errors (e.g. WSAETIMEDOUT). - Chg: Additionally show description of RAS-errors. - Chg: Stop further download of mail/news, if save to file fails (e.g. when disk is full). - Chg: Replaced APOP-digest (POP3) in logfile with "[...]". PLEASE NOTE: Starting with version 1.3.3, it's not possible any more to access Hamster's NNTP- and POP3-servers without prior authentication. If you are upgrading an older version of Hamster, you have to enter a password for the default-account "admin" under "File/Configuration/ Accounts" and use these settings for authentication in your news- or mail-client (i.e. "admin" as username and the password chosen). Vr. 1.3.3.0 (19 Sep 1999) BETA - Chg: Removed "Authentication [X] required" for NNTP- and POP3-server, as this is default from now on. Renamed SMTP's "Authentication [X] required" to "SMTP-after-POP3". - New: Added "[X] Allow POST to unknown groups"-setting (disabled by default and not recommended for multiuser-environments). - New: Definition for local domains. Mails sent to addresses with these domains via local SMTP-server will be delivered locally. - New: Assign specific mail-addresses to local accounts. Mails sent to these addresses via local SMTP-server will be delivered locally. - New: "General purpose"-passwords ($x) now work with RasDial too. - Chg: Added some date-related tests before loading new groups and log used NEWGROUPS-values in signature of announcements in hamster.misc. - Chg: New configuration page "Local servers". Former "Accounts"-page renamed to "Local accounts". - Fix: Removed "OK"- and "Cancel"-buttons on configuration-window, as they did not work as [you ;-)] expected. Some pages got a "Save"- button instead, changes on other pages are saved immediately. - Fix: Deleting account now deletes mailbox, if it's empty. - Fix: "admin"-mailbox can't be deleted any more. - Fix: Some valid groupnames (e.g. trailing "+"-sign like in "c++") were rejected due to a faulty syntax-check. - Fix: "ham import": mbox-format now triggers on "From " (case-dep.) - Fix: Mark missing headers with '(none)' on XHDR (NNTP). (Agent) - Chg: Changed "misleading" UIDL-format (only used internally). Vr. 1.3.2.0 (05 Sep 1999) BETA - New: Added user-accounts (-> File/Configuration/Accounts), which will be used, if "Authentication: [X] required" is activated for the local servers (-> File/Cfg./Settings). If authentication is enabled, the behaviour of the local servers changes as follows: - NNTP: user-specific group-selection for reading and posting; (cross-) postings to unknown groups are rejected, even if a valid Followup-To is set - POP3: separate mailboxes per account, but so far, they can only be filled by the new script-commands mentioned below - SMTP: only connections with prior POP3-authentication are accepted ("SMTP-after-POP3") - New: "General purpose"-passwords (-> File/Cfg./Passwords) to be used in scripts, which avoids the need to write them in clear text. - New: New and enhanced functions for OLE- and internal scripts: - ControlSetLogin, setlogin: support for new "general purpose"- passwords mentioned above - ControlRunFetchMail, fetchmail: fetch mails from a given server, optionally store the mail in a given account-mailbox - ControlRunSendMail, sendmail: send mails to a given server, optionally based on Envelope-From of message - Chg: Passwords used to log into local servers are also replaced by "[...]" now in the logfiles. - New: Support for APOP-authentication (local POP3-server). - Fix: Add missing Date:-header in archive-copy of posted article (XNews). - Fix: Order of mail-numbers could change after RSET (POP3). - Fix: Mailbox-locking (concurrent POP3-sessions of same user). - Chg: Regex-selection under "News-Pulls/Add" now includes servername. - Fix: Missing history-entry for messages stored in hamster.posted. - Fix: XPAT (NNTP) without params returned 500 instead of 501 (slrn). - Chg: Optimized range-selection for XPAT (NNTP) Vr. 1.3.1.0 (22 Aug 1999) BETA - New: Group-selection on "News-Pulls/Add" with regular expression. - New: Select more than one group on "News-Pulls/Add". - New: Internal scripts: Added "start.wait" and "start.nowait" to start external programs. - New: Removed menu-item "Online/Script: Default.hsc" and added a separate "Script"-menu containing all available *.hsc-files. - New: Added menu-item "Online/Single Server" to start transfer to/from one of the defined servers. - Fix: Group-selection with ["pattern"] in scorefile did not work. - Chg: "Lines:"-value in Hamster's XOVER-reply is not based on the given Lines:-header of the article any more. - Chg: Local cancel failed, if "From:"-header of cancel was not exactly the same as that of the article to cancel (slrn). - Fix: NEWGROUPS (NNTP) mostly returned all or none groups ... - Chg: If connection was lost during posting, a misleading 340-reply was generated. - New: OLE-function: NewsImport - New: Import messages into Hamster's database with "ham import". - Chg: Remember last selected page on main-window and reselect it on startup. - Fix: Already known Message-IDs were not deleted in "getmids.txt" ("Mark for retrieval"-function). - New: If a Message-ID in "getmids.txt" is preceded with "!", it will be pulled, even it is marked as "known" in history-file. - New: Hamster.ini: [Setup] local.timeout.quitdelay=100 Delay in milliseconds before local servers close a connection after client's final QUIT (Agent). - Chg: Hamster.ini: [Setup] remote.timeout.connect/.command=120 Default timeouts raised from 60 to 120 seconds. - Fix: Crosspost-restrictions could not be turned off by setting a "Followup-To:"-header. - New: Start internal script by command-line ("hamster.exe doit.hsc"). Note: This only works, if Hamster is not running yet. - New: Killfile-Log: "Select all (Ctrl-A)" - Chg: Archive-copies of posted articles in hamster.posted now get a unique Message-ID and a correct "Newsgroups:"-header (original values will be preserved in "X-Post-..."-headers). To avoid confusions, the article is also marked an "archive-copy" in the body-text of the article. - Fix: Scorelines with a leading '=' stopped further scoring, but did not adjust the resulting score-value. - Chg: When deleting a "Newsgroup", all corresponding "News-Pulls" will be deleted also. - Chg: SMTP-HELO now uses a/the hostname, not "localhost". Vr. 1.3.0.42 (11 Jul 1999) BETA - Fix: "Preferred Post-Server" was ignored. - Chg: Removed STAT when pulling mails. - Chg: Changed naming convention for mailfiles created by Hamster (*.msg, IN and OUT): Number in decimal without leading zeros; numbers will only be reset to 1 when 99.999.999 is reached. - Chg: Options which can only be set manually by editing .ini-files: - Server.ini: [Setup] ReadOnly=0 If set to 1, the given newsserver will not be used to post articles. - Chg: Added further log-messages. Vr. 1.3.0.40 (04 Jul 1999) BETA - Fix: A group was not recognized as "known", if its spelling was different from that in Hamster's group-list (upper-/lower- case). Articles were loaded but not saved in this case. - Fix: NEWGROUPS (NNTP) now returns data in same format as LIST. - Fix: Automatically ignore scorefile and load articles by number, if newsserver does not support XOVER. - Chg: Additional warning- and error-messages in some "critical" (support- ;-) situations. - Chg: If loading of newsgroups-list fails, no dummy-list containing the error-messages will be saved any more, so the list will be loaded automatically after solving the problem (e.g. wrong username/password). - Chg: Turned (yellow) warnings of thread-limiter into (b/w) infos. - Fix: Articles were not posted immediately if "preferred post- server" was not in the list of selected servers. Now it will be posted to one of the given servers, if the group is pulled from it. - Chg: Don't start more (useless) pull-threads than there are jobs to do for a given server. Vr. 1.3.0.38 (27 Jun 1999) BETA - New: OLE-functions: NewsDeleteByMID - New: Execute cancel-messages (local groups only; identical From; notification in hamster.misc). - New: Improved version of "ham.exe": - "delete": Delete article by Message-ID in Hamster's database. - Chg: Some minor performance-optimizations (less group-reopens when pulling news; less serialization when accessing group-files and adding log-entries). - New: Added a short connection-info after closing RAS-connection. - Fix: Final "." could be missing on TOP-command (local POP3-server). - Fix: Internal errors in protocol-handling of local servers were only treated as "Debug"-infos instead of more "visible" and correct "Errors" (like in TOP/POP3-situation above). - Fix: Invalid characters were accepted when setting FQDN. - Chg: Added some syntactical checks when posting articles. - Chg: Additional checks on purge to detect and remove "damaged" articles in database-files. - New: Options which can only be set manually by editing .ini-files: - Hamster.ini: [Setup] password.codebase=0 Defines how the keyword is built for encoding the entries in password-file. If set to 1, the user-name is not used for it (e.g. on NT, if Hamster is used with different logins). Note: You have to restart Hamster and set all passwords again after changing this value! - Fix: Check for valid newsgroup-name when adding a local group. Vr. 1.3.0.36 (19 Jun 1999) BETA - Fix: Scores on "Xref" and "Xpost" were ignored. - Chg: "Scorefile-Test" in Killfile-Log could be rather slow. - Chg: Additional error-handling for POP3-server. - New: Hamster could not be started/used, if RAS was not installed. The RAS-DLLs are now loaded dynamically only when needed. - New: "rasapi32.dll" added to "Help/System Informations". - New: Options which can only be set manually by editing .ini-files: - Hamster.ini: [Setup] remote.timeout.connect=60 [Setup] remote.timeout.command=60 Seconds after which remote-servers have to answer (when connecting/after sending a command) before a 'no response from server' is assumed (in seconds; default: 60). - Chg: Options which can only be set manually by editing .ini-files: - Server.ini: [Pull] Threads=2 The new limit for concurrent threads per server is now a GNKSA-compliant 4 threads per server, default is still "2". Note: The usage-policy for some servers might order you not to use higher values than 1, 2 or 3. The default-value of "2" should be OK for most servers, but if in doubt, ask your newsmaster, how many concurrent connections ("sockets") are allowed on his server. Note: The thread-limit per server is now "strict" and can't be "workarounded" by starting additional tasks by menu or scripts as in former versions. If additional tasks are started, they will be suspended until another thread for the given server has finished (in most cases they will do just nothing, as the jobs are already done by the other threads). - Chg: Optimized history (insert-time for pulled articles). - Chg: Priority for large and currently unused groups when pulling news. This avoids ineffective pulls and "delayed" groups at the end of transmission, when only a few threads are left. Vr. 1.3.0.34 (13 Jun 1999) BETA - Chg: Limitation on max. 10 concurrent online-threads removed. - New: Generate Xref-headers. - Chg: Lowered restrictions when crossposting to too many [unknown] groups, IF Followup-To is set. - Chg: Disabled "[Setup] news.removemids=". - Chg: Add missing Lines:-header when archiving in .posted/.errors. - Fix: Group-specific purge-range was ignored. - New: If a score-pattern is surrounded by '{' and '}', it is treated as a PCRE-style regular expression, e.g.: -1 From {no@?spam} Regex-matching is not case-sensitive, but this can be changed in a pattern with a leading "(?-i)" or with "(?-i:XXX)", e.g.: -1 Subject {(?-i)HELP} {(?-i:URGENT)} - New: To mix scores for different header-fields on a single line, a pattern may be qualified with ('@'+headerfield+':'), e.g.: -1 Subject {[!?]{3}} "help" "urgent" -@From:"me@home" -";-)" - New: OLE-function: NewsScoreTest - New: Improved version of "ham.exe": - "scoreview": Show scorelines used for a given group. - "scoretest": Show score-value and matching score-lines for a given article. - New: "Scorefile-Test" in Killfile-Log shows the scorelines, which match on the selected article. Vr. 1.3.0.32 (05 Jun 1999) BETA - New: Menu "Help / System-Informations". - Chg: Default inactivity-timeout for local servers raised to 60 min. - New: Add missing Date:-header if article is posted to or archived in local groups. - New: OLE-functions: NewsLocateMID, ControlRunRebuildHistory. - Chg: Separate settings for the generation of Message-IDs for news and mails. - Chg: Posted articles with "unknown" groups will be accepted, if at least one of it is "known" and at most two are "unknown". - Fix: Articles without Message-ID in hamster.posted/.errors. - Fix: Upper range of available articles in a group could be set to a lower number on purge, if article with the highest number was purged, or even be set to 0, if all articles were purged. - New: Options which can only be set manually by editing .ini-files: - Server.ini: [Pull] Threads=2 Number of threads started when pulling news (default: 2, valid range: 0-9) - Hamster.ini: [Setup] local.timeout.inactivity=60 Minutes after which local servers disconnect inactive clients (default: 60). - Hamster.ini: [Setup] mail.addxhamster=1 news.addxhamster=1 Disable Hamster's "X-Posting-Agent"-header for mail and/or news (default: 1=enable; 0 to disable). - Hamster.ini: [Setup] mail.removemids=FQDN1,FQDN2,... news.removemids= Remove Message-ID from messages posted to local NNTP-server (POST) and/or sent to local SMTP-server, if its FQDN is one of the given FQDNs in the list. Message-IDs for news-articles will NOT be removed, if an article contains a Path:-header or is marked as "known" or "MID already removed earlier" in history-file. Additionally, if history-check fails, the article will be refused, i.e. it will not be accepted again (history-range is raised to at least 14 days, if "news.removemids" is set). - New: Improved version of "ham.exe": - "locate" article by Message-ID - "type" and "export" specific article (option: "-number") - directly "grep" in groups with regexp-patterns - group-selection with one or more regexp-patterns (see "ham help" or "ham help all" for more^Wdetails). Vr. 1.3.0.30 (31 May 1999) BETA - Fix: Local servers ... - New: POP3/NOOP Vr. 1.3.0.29 (30 May 1999) BETA - Fix: Client-connection was "used" to early, which caused a misleading "no posting allowed"-message when connecting. - Chg: Added "X-Posting-Agent"-header in sent mails. Vr. 1.3.0.28 (29 May 1999) BETA - Chg: [Local-servers] Initial greeting-message was sent before client-connection was completely initialized. This could cause Hamster or client to "die" and a "lost" connection. - Chg: [Local-servers] Show (yellow) warnings when connection is lost or closed by Hamster. - Chg: Additional debug-logs for passwordfile-usage. - Chg: When decoding of username/password fails, Hamster now uses "ask for the values" as default. - Chg: Width of horizontal scrollbar adjusted ... Vr. 1.3.0.27 (27 May 1999) BETA - New: Additional extensions for local NNTP-Server: "LIST ACTIVE [wildmat]", "LIST ACTIVE.TIMES", "XPAT header range wildmat [wildmat...]" - Fix: Reject articles posted with missing or unknown newsgroup. - Fix: Enable crossposting in local groups. - Chg: (path)\Hamster.exe can only be started once. - Chg: Accept empty "empty list" on POP3/LIST (telda.net?) - Chg: Local servers: separate threads per client-connection. Vr. 1.3.0.24 (15 May 1999) BETA - Fix: Generate Message-ID for mails. Service-Pack 1. ;-) Vr. 1.3.0.23 (15 May 1999) BETA - Chg/Fix: Redesign of local-servers which solves some issues like: - Hamster could "die" and/or cause unpredictable results, if connections to local-servers were closed immediately after a "QUIT"-command. - Similar effects, when connection was lost during sending or receiving data. - SMTP-envelope of mails sent to SMTP-server could get lost under certain conditions (don't panic, mail-delivery would have failed with "red" errors in this case). - Error-handling, in general, was really B.A.D. - Fix: Errors on external-connections were noted but not handled correctly and mostly caused Hamster to "die". - Chg: Additional ("visible") warning when posting of article fails. - Fix: Articles loaded by "mark for retrieval" were counted under "Load", but not under "All". - Chg: "wait.until" (internal script) now waits til next minute before it starts checking the given timepoints. - New: Show number of articles/mails in outbox on main-window. - New: Generate Message-ID for mails if enabled for news. Vr. 1.3.0.22 (10 May 1999) BETA - Chg: Modified behaviour when clients connect to local-servers. - Chg: Modified error-handling for client-connections to local-servers. - Chg: Additional checks and warnings for invalid scorefile-entries. - Chg: Increased width of configuration-window. Vr. 1.3.0.21 (09 May 1999) BETA - New: Start new session-logfile when date changes. - Fix: "news.purge" (internal script) did ... nothing. - Fix: Empty lines sent to local servers caused error-message. - Chg: Improved concurrent news-pulls from different servers. - Fix: "wait.until" (internal script) did ... nothing. - New: "LIST EXTENSIONS" (NNTP), "AUTH" (POP3) and "EHLP" (SMTP) are "known" now, but still give a "not implemented"-response. - Fix: Improved behaviour on "lost" connections to local-servers. - Chg: Increased width of selection-window for news-pulls. Vr. 1.3.0.20 (06 May 1999) BETA - New: Allow or refuse connections to the local servers based on the IP-address of the connecting client. By default, only addresses 127.0.0.1 and 192.168.0.0-192.168.255.255 are accepted. To modify this default, you have to generate a file named "IPAccess.hst" with appropriate settings (see "IPAccess.hst"). - New: Added Win32-event named 'evtHamster.IsIdle', which is signaled, when Hamster is in idle-state, and unsignaled, when there are active tasks like purge, pulling news etc. (see "Events"). - Chg: The detection of "first pull" was changed from "no articles in group" to a real "no articles loaded from server yet". - Chg: Additional checks and warnings for invalid scorefile-entries. - New: "wait.until" (internal script) with multiple timepoints. - New: "restart" (internal script) restarts script from beginning. - New: "Del"- and "Ctrl+M"-shortcuts for functions in killfile-log. - Fix: Unpredictable change of sort-order in killfile-log after deleting and/or marking for retrieval. - Fix: Local servers: Closing connection after "QUIT"-command from client could sometimes cause a ... dead Hamster. - Fix: Local servers: Sending large amount of data to clients (like big articles or many overview-lines) was not safe and could cause gaps in transmitted data-stream (similar to "large mail"-effect fixed in 1.3.0.12). - Fix: Local servers: Initial greeting message from Hamster was assigned to (ooops) wrong socket-event, which could "disturb" dataflow (seldom effect, mostly after loading hundreds of overview-lines: Agent displays "200 Hamster-NNTP Vr. ..." as Subject). Vr. 1.3.0.16 (25 Apr 1999) BETA - Chg: if scoreline contains an unquoted ';' or '#', the rest of the line is ignored (i.e. treated as a comment) - New: additional functions for OLE-automation (see list in helpfile) - Chg: built-in scripts modified to use OLE-automation-functions - Fix: script-command "setlogin" had no effect Vr. 1.3.0.15 (18 Apr 1999) BETA - Fix: invalid dates were displayed (and sorted) in killfile-log - New: included OLE-interface to access Hamster from other programs; by now, only a few functions were implemented for testing- purposes; the "Hamster.App"-object is registered automatically when Hamster.exe is started - New: commandline-utility "Ham.exe" to test the new OLE-interface; type "ham help" to get a short helptext for the functions, e.g. "ham export de.comm.software.forte-agent > dcsfa.txt" - Chg: optimized behaviour when pulling a group which is already in use by another thread (group-pull is not delayed or skipped when "in use" is just a short "saving a crossposted article") Vr. 1.3.0.13 (release-date intentionally left blank) BETA - New: an interface to Hamster from other programs :-) - Chg: removed this &*(º$&])!-interface :-( - Fix: cool down, relax, insert new coin ... ;-) Vr. 1.3.0.12 (09 Apr 1999) BETA - Fix: number of kept logfiles was always 10 regardless of cfg.-value - Chg: improved the automatic detection of new article-ranges on server (e.g. reinstalled server with new article-numbers) - Chg: when adding group+server at "Configuration/News-Pulls", the referenced group is now created automatically if it does not exist already - Chg: removed (obsolete) "Add/Select"-button at "Configuration/Groups" - New: list of active threads on main window - Fix: "large" mails could not be sent Vr. 1.3.0.10 (07 Apr 1999) BETA - New: added "Xpost" to allow scoring on crosspostings (e.g.: "-1 Xpost %>3" -> posted in more than 3 groups) - New: 'score.loglimit' can now be set on scorefile-editwindow - Chg: disabled internal cache for local article-ranges (min./max. no.) Vr. 1.3.0.9 (06 Apr 1999) BETA - Fix: "stop all tasks" could (still) cause one corrupted article/mail - Fix: "corrupted" articles could cause (unpredictable) side-effects - Fix: the reverse-lookup of the domain connecting to the local servers caused Windows to dial, even if it was "localhost" defined in local "HOSTS"-file ... [dirty comments of author snipped] ... the logfile now only contains the IP-number of the connecting station Vr. 1.3.0.8 (05 Apr 1999) BETA - Fix: back to connection-behaviour of Vr. 1.3.0.3 due to problems when connecting to local-servers - Chg: added "///BETA/// Renumber triggered: ..."-warning with additional informations when renumbering of articles on newsserver is detected Vr. 1.3.0.7 (04 Apr 1999) BETA - New: added "Lines:"-header for info-postings in hamster.misc - Chg: replaced username and password in logfile with "[...]" - Chg: additional debug-log entries to make support- and bugfix-life easier (like article-ranges before downloading) - Chg: completely rewritten news-pull (e.g. two threads for each each server by default; pull-list per server not per thread) - Fix: interrupted news-pull could cause one corrupted article (i.e. saved only with lines loaded before interruption) - Chg: default log-length in debug-mode doubled to first 120 byte of received data - New: To get a complete log: close Hamster, change "log.file.mask=FFFF" under "[Setup]" in Hamster.ini and restart Hamster; this megabyte- eating setting is disabled when using "Configuration" again. - New: to identify server-related issues, the initial server-message is now stored in file ".\Server\(servername)\Greeting.txt" - Chg: (try to ;-) handle "peculiar" end of POP3-LIST from Germanynet - Fix: error when exceeding 32K matching groups in group-selection - Fix: no postserver found with trailing whitespace on "Newsgroups:" - Fix: error(s) when Windows wants to auto-dial (?) for a localhost- connection (???), but confirmation-box is cancelled - Fix: Hamster was not initialized until it became "visible" (e.g. local-servers not active when started "minimized") - Chg: save/load last position of main- and scoreedit-window - Chg: added horizontal scroll for messages in main-window - Fix: listbox-entries were too low when using 'large fonts' - New: articles with a score of less than "score.loglimit="-setting under "[Setup]" in Hamster.ini are not logged in killfile-log (default: "score.loglimit=-10000", i.e. log all) Vr. 1.3.0.3 (29 Mar 1999) BETA - Fix: POP3-maildownload stopped after the first mail was loaded, stored and (if enabled under 'Settings') deleted from server. No mails were lost due to this issue. Vr. 1.3.0.2 (22 Mar 1999) BETA - Fix: error when Hamster was about to send out mails with SMTP (situation: no preferred smtp-server set AND transfer was startet with one of the definable menu-items) - Fix: error when starting transfer without "Scores.hst"-file - Fix: error when starting script without "Default.hsc"-file - Fix: error when selecting group and groupfile was not loaded yet - Chg: default-username and -passwort for new servers was changed from "ask when needed" (="?") to "not needed" (="") - Chg: the article-count in reply to "GROUP"-command of newsserver was changed from "exact" to "estimated" due to performance issues - New: configuration-setting to delete mails on server after loading them by POP3. default value is: "[X] Leave mails on server, i.e. do not delete them." - Chg: hide separator-line in online-menu if no var.-items defined Vr. 1.3.0.1 (21 Mar 1999) BETA - New: online-help added (Hamster.hlp).