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- ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ Pegasus Mail version 1.3 │
- │ A Mail System for Novell Netware (tm). │
- │ (c) 1989, 1990, David Harris. │
- │ │
- │ Release Notes │
- └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- Release 1.3 of Pegasus Mail is slightly more than the maintenance
- release intended to supplement version 1.2 which it started out as.
- It adds true foreign character support, an address book feature and
- solid encryption, as well as a number of smaller modifications. It
- will DEFINITELY be the last release before the end of January 1991
- (heard that one before?).
-
- ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ NOTE: The version of the manual included with this release is the │
- │ same as the 1.2 manual: an up-to-date version will be released at │
- │ a later date. │
- └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- ┌─────────────────────────────────┐
- │ Foreign Character Support. │
- └─────────────────────────────────┘
- Users who install the MS-DOS KEYB program will now find that Pegasus
- Mail supports the special characters mapped on their keyboards. Only
- code page 437 has been tested and others might or might not work.
- While this modification sounds small, in fact it has been the single
- most major adjustment to the program since its first release!
-
- The digraph character formation mechanism introduced in version 1.2
- is retained, allowing characters not available via KEYB to be entered
- easily.
-
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- │ Address Book │
- └─────────────────────────────────┘
- Pegasus Mail now includes an address book, capable of storing around
- 500 entries. It is accessible at any time by pressing <F3>. Its
- operation is straightforward: entries can be created with meaningful
- (or not, as it suits you) descriptions: an entry can contain as many
- addresses as will fit into the TO: field, and any address legal to
- Pegasus Mail (including Internet addresses, user groups and
- distribution files) can be included. While entering addresses, you
- can use the UserList key (F2) to lookup users.
-
- When selecting users from the Address book, you may use either the
- space bar, or the standard Novell <F5> key to select more than one
- entry: when you press <Enter>, all marked entries will be placed in
- the TO: field, separated by commas: if the list of entries exceeds
- the maximum length of the TO: field, excess entries will be omitted.
-
- Each user's address book is stored in his home mailbox, and system
- supervisors can define public address lists in a file called
- PEGASUS.ADR in the same directory as PMAIL.EXE: the public list is
- added to the user's list when <F3> is pressed. To facilitate loading,
- the public address list should be kept as small as possible. Public
- address lists are maintained with the PMADDR.EXE program supplied
- with this release. Supervisors can allow the system PEGASUS.ADR
- file to be accessed from elsewhere by setting a DOS environment
- variable "PMAB" to point to the fully extended path name of the
- file (eg: "set PMAB=SYS:PUBLIC/PEGASUS.ADR").
-
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- │ Encryption │
- └─────────────────────────────────┘
- Pegasus Mail can now encrypt messages (but not files) using a 7-bit
- mechanism similar to DES, meaning that encrypted messages can be sent
- via the SMTP gateway without modification. The algorithm used is
- extremely robust, and only the NSA should have any reasonable chance
- of cracking it. All the browse functions have been modified to prompt
- for the key before operating on encrypted messages. Note that when
- sending encrypted messages via an SMTP gateway, ALL high-bit charac-
- ters are translated to a ^V: this is because the gateway can't handle
- 8-bit characters, and the encryption mechanism is desynchronized by
- the appearance of an extra ASCII char.
-
- WARNING: Do not forget the keys you use! I CANNOT help you if you do
- - I am no more able to crack the encoding scheme than anyone else
- (this is as it should be)!
-
- ┌─────────────────────────────────┐
- │ Alt-F10 │
- └─────────────────────────────────┘
- By popular request, the standard Novell <Alt-F10> key sequence can
- now be used to exit Pegasus Mail at any time.
-
- ┌─────────────────────────────────┐
- │ Modifications: │
- └─────────────────────────────────┘
- * The user list screen (<F2> in TO: fields) now displays groups
- as well as users, and allows selection of multiple values using
- <Space> or the standard NetWare <F5> key.
- * When extracting files, Pmail now tries to extract to the drive
- and directory which was current at the time the program was
- run if you enter no explicit path.
- * A problem which caused NetWare to delete any mapping for the Z:
- drive when leaving Pmail has been worked around.
- * A quick reference screen for commonly-used keys is available
- from any help screen by pressing <F1> again (and there is a
- message to this effect).
- * Problems some users experienced while moving home mailboxes
- have been tidied - Pmail is now forgiving if mail directories
- already exist in the new target mailbox.
- * Better error reporting: previously, Pmail would not necessarily
- report failure to deliver messages; now it does. Similarly,
- other areas where error reporting were weak have been
- improved.
-
- ┌─────────────────────────────────┐
- │ ADDENDUM: v1.31, 1 Dec '90. │
- └─────────────────────────────────┘
- v1.31 fixes some small bugs to do with Home Mailboxes on NetWare
- Volumes other than SYS:. It also enhances error checking, and will
- not copy files over themselves (resulting in 0-length files). There
- are no features not found in 1.3, except that broadcast messages are
- now fielded in dialog boxes while Pmail is running.
-
-
- -- David Harris --
-
- email: david@otago.ac.nz, - or - david@elrond.otago.ac.nz
- BIX (Byte Information Exchange): dave_h.
-
- Postal enquiries and registrations to:
- P.O. Box 5451, Dunedin, New Zealand (no postal codes required).
-
- (The postal address will be good until at least January 1993, the
- others probably likewise.)
-
- 1 Dec '90
-
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