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Short: Offline mail/news/... reader, main archive (required)
Author: Ultima Thule Software (thor@hstud6.cs.uit.no)
Uploader: Petter Nilsen (pettern@icenet.no)
Type: comm/thor
970827
- THOR -
Release 2.5
Copyright (C) 1993-1997 Ultima Thule Software,
All Rights Reserved.
THOR 2.5 is an advanced multi-format offline reader, supporting the
QWK, Fido, UUCP, SOUP, Bluewave, Omen, ABBS, MBBS and Hippo (BBBS)
message formats. It will also handle TCP-connections with NNTP, SMTP
and POP3, with extensive MIME support.
Changes from 2.4 to 2.5 pre-release 1:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
THOR:
- Will optionally detect and provide actions for http:, ftp:, news:
and mailto: links in messages. Start you browser with a click,
download a file with a click!
If a ftp: link is not complete with a filename, a popdown menu will appear
that lets you select to use an external program on the link. For this to
happen, you must have configured a ftp client that will accept ftp: links
on the commandline. AmiFTP supports this. (it must be configured, but you
can still have Internal in the visual config on ftp:).
On news:, you will have the option to start ConnectTHOR or subscribe
to the group directly.
- Added popdown menu instead of requesters when clicking on attachment
icons.
- Added support for external icons for the various filetypes
in attachments. The icons should reside in "filestypes/" in the THOR
dir. See included icons for examples. Normal, MagicWB and NewIcons are
supported. If a filetype icon is a project icon, the default tool will replace
Multiview in the popdown menu when clicking on an attachment icon.
- Main THOR program now relies on ClassAct to work.
- Visual Config, Kill windows and pack/purge window are in ClassAct
- Thor will handle Cc: and add the selected addresses at the top of the
message as Cc: lines.
- Pack/purge window expanded to include a separate tab section that will
list files attached to messages that were deleted in the purge. It also
is 100% ClassAct now.
- TRUE kills implemented, meaning a messages matching this type of kill
will not be imported into the database.
- MAKESIGNATURE added to the ARexx interface of THOR.
- Double-clicking an entry in the user database will enter a message
to that person.
- THOR will now make sure attachments can be deleted, even if a
datatype hold a lock on it, by freeing all inline pictures before
deletion.
- Multiselection possible in the event window on all but edit.
- The datatype filetype will be in the Type: description
on attachments.
- The requester whether to delete attachments have "Delete All" and
"Delete None" options.
- Pre-processes % characters in the FromAddr or ReplyToAddr that could
cause crashes when replying so this will not happen.
- When getting a list of mail packets in the download dir fails, the systems
list will still be shown.
- Removed a few bugs when there is not enough memory to load the passive
conferencelist and reduced the memory consumption.
- Text attachments are shown inline automatically.
- Added "Get Current User" to the User database window.
- Fixed crashing bug when using attach without a listfont configured.
ConnectTHOR:
- 2 new arguments: BROWSENEWS (for entering the newsbrowser directly), and
NEWSGROUP used with BROWSENEWS.
- Fixed a CT crash when no stack is running (I hope).
- Added a "flush log" menu item.
- Fixed a memory leak.
bbsreadrexx-handler:
- UPDATEBRMESSAGE can now set and clear the read/superunread flags too.
bbsread.library:
- Length of paths for UnArchive() and Archive() has been doubled to 500
characters
- Fixed a possible problem when comparing kills when BRKILL_Private tag
was used on a kill (missing break in a switch statement).
- Forwarded messages will not be purged on pack/purge before the event
has been executed and the events purged. MDF_REFERENCED is the private
flag added to messages that should not be purged.
- API change allows for creating a list of file attachments at pack/purge time,
so they can be browsed later for copying, deletion etc. New tag
PD_AttachmentList to PackDataFile() added for this purpose.
- Fixed the long standing problem when packing a filedb with more than 32K
number of files. The problem was that the hash key for each file was held in
in a WORD and no checking was done when this could not fit the key. This has
been changed to a UWORD (compatible with older filedbs still), and
only 60K unique hash keys will be generated now.
- WBRK_MarkDeleted can be set on a kill, which will really delete a message
if it matches a kill. WriteBRMessage() will not write the message to the
database if a match with this tag is found. NOTE: This introduces a slight
API change in in what WriteBRMessage() returns. If possible, do not rely on
this return value if it is anything else but 0, which means failure. -1 is
returned on messages that are not added to the database due to a kill match
on the above tag.
Changes from 2.5 pre-release 1 to 2.5 final release:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- added grouping/sorting of messages in Show ALL mode too. Requires V5 of
bbsread.library now.
- Added a description field for kills, so the user can add a comment to each
kill/emphasize.
- When writing an event, the data about the event will be shown in the info bar
at the bottom of the main window.
- Visual Config adds an option to show pictures automatically inline or with the
external viewer.
- Somewhere in the past, I added new formatting codes for the reply/forward
string, but forgot to document them. Here they are:
%F - Sender first name
%L - Sender last name
- Option for always encoding mail as quoted-printable added to
system->import/export settings.
- Added support for APOP authentication on POP3 mail collection.
- Sortmail trigger processing done on import now, with a very flexible
command set. CfgSortmail.thor still needs to be run to set triggers up.
+ many bug fixes and improvements
To install this upgrade, use the UpdateThor installer script.
QUESTIONS?
~~~~~~~~~~
There is a newsgroup for Thor with the name of alt.sys.amiga.thor. If
the group is not available at your newsserver, ask for it by sending a
mail to your system admin.
Mailing Lists:
The old THOR mailing list has be resurrected. To subscribe to this list,
send a mail to majordomo@thule.no with "subscribe thor-ml <email address>"
in the body.
There is a mailing list for developers of programs and ARexx scripts
related to THOR. To subscribe to this list, send a mail to
majordomo@thule.no with "subscribe thor-dev <email address>" in the
body. If you have no interest in making scripts or programs related
to THOR, you do not need to join this mailing list.
--
Petter Nilsen
EMail THOR Team: thor@thule.no
WWW site: http://www.thule.no/
EMail: pettern@thule.no
IRC: Mitchman