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* NetWare MHS Driver for Microsoft Mail *
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* Release 2.0 *
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Problems Addressed
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Microsoft Office 4.x:
1. When the "Send" menu option was chosen, the public address book
could not be seen from all applications.
2. When the "Add Routing Slip" menu was chosen, applications reported
a "General Mail Failure ...".
3. The memory leaks in the alpha release have been eliminated.
4. The Company Address Book "Hotkey" feature did not work for
Word in the Microsoft Office 4.2 Suite.
5. Receiving messages on a remote client meant searching
the address book for each recipient for a display name.
This has been eliminated, the display name is carried in
the address itself in driver to driver mail.
6. Hotkey items like 'Z' any 'Y' did not work for sites
that also used '^' in names.
7. When "hotkey"ing into the address book, a mismatch always
returned you to the first name. This version will
leave you at the last match.
8. Address book queries created huge performance problems.
Substring searches were invoked for the "Check Names"
button, the looking glass icon in the address book, and the
cmc_lookup call for cmc users.
When users queried the address book over a WAN, performance
was not good. In order to solve this problem, the search
mechanism has been redefined. Those users who need a sub-string
search should indicate so by the wildcard character '*' at the
begining of a string. E.g. To find "John" use "*John", wildcard
characters are not defined anywhere else in the name. If you do
not specify a '*' in front of a string, the sub-string will be
assumed at the start of a name.
This speeds up life quite a bit, since a binary search can
be used to locate sub-strings at the begining of a name.
Suppose you want to locate a user "Smith, John" in
"Check Names" or the looking glass icon or cmc_lookup
expect the following behavior:
String entered What Happens
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*John Searches every record in the
Company Address Book for the
occurance of "John". It will
not stop until every record in
the file has been hit.
John Will not match, since John is
not a last name. However, this
goes via a binary search. If
John was a last name in the
address book it would find it.
Smith Uses a binary search to find
all names begining with Smith
in the address book.
*Smith Searches every record in the
Company Address Book for the
occurance of "Smith". It will
not stop until every record in
the file has been hit.
9. Since the application now heavily depends on binary
searching, the search algorithm has been modified.
Multiple network accesses on the same record are prevented
by caching the two most recently accessed records. This
enhancement cuts down network accesses to just under a half.
The performance increment is almost 100%.
10. In replies to messages from NGMSMTP module, the driver was
using the "Sender" address, when in actual fact, it should
have used the "From" address. This version will ignore the
"Sender" in favour of the "From" address.
11. In the Address Book custom address icon, the "Address" field
allowed only 60 characters. Users wishing to enter longer
(X.400 etc.) addresses could not do so. This version
fixes that problem.
12. The login name of the sender was being displayed in
messages in the "Sent Mail" folder.
13. The dos_findfirst and dos_findnext calls stopped working
in the gold version of Windows NT 3.51. This version provides
a workaround to the bug in that product. Users will now be
able to receive their messages.
14. In Microsoft Mail 3.2 the address book "Details" button leads
to a GPF for SMF addresses of around 14 characters, this version
fixes that problem.
15. New users accidently mis-typed their password the first time
they tried to logon. This left them with no way to
access their messages on subsequent sessions. This version will
require password verification from first time users.
17. For those users who have standardized their login names to
"Last, First .." or "First Last" or "Initials Last", or
"Last, Initials" or "Last name only", the display name will
be automatically found for you when you upgrade from 1.x to 2.0.
The common denominator is the LastName, which is used to jump
to the appropriate place in the extract file. The previously
configured email-address (SMF UserName) is then used to find
the correct entry.
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Enhancements.
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1. The Server Dialog Box invoked through the "Options" menu
now provides browse buttons for convenience.
2. The address book Find command (ie the looking glass icon) took
too long to execute for the Company Address Book. This release
should improve performance by up to 200% depending upon the
available memory, and in theory should optimize network transfers
( although tests have not be run to measure the latter ).
3. Received messages did not retain friendly names. When
receiving messages from other MSMail Driver users, you
will now see friendly names instead of SMF addresses.
4. Applications checked a user's login name against the
Company Address Book as a means of authentication. If
the login name was not a sub-string of that user's full
name in the Company Address Book, the authentication failed.
The authentication mechanism now uses your Display Name (i.e,
a new configurable parameter in your server dialog box.). You
should ensure your display name exactly matches the one in the address
book (including all spaces, tabs etc.). See also 11 below.
5. "Memo" users experienced problems when blank lines that
contained spaces were stripped of those spaces. This
version no longer strips spaces (See 12 below).
6. When the content of a message contained a very long line,
that did not contain any spaces, a character was dropped.
This has been addressed.
7. Read Receipt has no German umlat in the subject field.
This has been fixed.
8. The "MHS User Name" field did not scroll. This has been
fixed.
9. The options button in the Send Mail dialog box checked
the delivery request when receipt request was checked.
This has been fixed.
10. The "Details" button in the Address Book displays all
Extract file information about that user.
11. The Mail Options Server dialog box has a new field called
"Last, First Name" (see 14 below). This field will hold your display name.
When recipients look at a message from you, the "From" field
of the message will display this name. You can specify the name
as an unambigous partial string that matches the begining part
of your fullname in the SMF_NS.XRT (extract file also known as
the Company Address Book) and search for the rest of it
(the MHS Path field must have been correctly set for this to
work). The search will also automatically fill in your
MHS User Name and your MHS Short Name.
If you choose not to use this field, your logon name is used
as your display name. If your login name is not be the same as
your display name (fullname) in the SMF_NS.XRT file, applications like
MS Word will not be able to authenticate you against the address book and
you will get a "General Mail Failure.." message.
12 This item is related to item 5 above. Other applications
were now having problems because spaces in blank lines
were not being stripped. An enhancement has now been
made in the Mail -> Options -> Server dialog box that
allows users to choose whether they want to strip spaces
or not. The default is not to strip spaces.
13 When messages were being moved from the outbox into the
MHS\MAIL\SND directory, elements of the SMF message were being
constructed over the network or via asynchronous connections.
In particular messages with a large number of recipients, over
asynchronous connections led to performance penalties. This
version will create the SMF message in the MHS Temp directory.
It will then copy the whole file to the MHS\MAIL\SND directory.
14 Related to 11 above. Users did not like the wording
"Last, First Name" in the server options dialog box. This
has been changed to "Display Name".
15 Some users did not want display names in received messages.
The Mail->Options->Server dialog box includes a new option
the allows a user to choose.
16 This version also authenticates originator display names. It
does this by checking who the logged in NetWare user is, and
ensuring that the display name of the NetWare/MHS user in the
address book, is the display name configured.
17 In the Mail->Options->Server dialog box users may use the
"Next" and "Back" keys to navigate the Company Address Book
in order to locate their record.
18 If the login name is of the form "FirstName LastName", the
program will try to locate the Display Name automatically by
converting it to "LastName, FirstName".
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MHS Services for NetWare 4.
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You may find that the "Company Address Book" cannot be
accessed. In order to fix this problem ensure that
"[public]" has the "FILE SCAN" rights to the
..\MHS\MAIL\PUBLIC\SMF-NS.XRT file.
How ?
1. Invoke the filer (this procedure requires supervisory rights).
2 Choose "Select current directory". Change it to
...MHS\MAIL\PUBLIC, return to "Available options" menu.
3. Choose "Manage files and directories".
4. In "Directory contents" menu choose "SMF_NS.XRT".
5. In "File options" menu choose "View/Set file information"
6. In "Information for file SMF_NS.XRT" dialog box select
"Trustees: [Public]".
7. In "Trustee name Type Rights" dialog box press
"Enter" on "[Public]".
8. In "Trustee rights" press "Ins" to select from list
(won't work if "Numlock" is on) of available rights.
9. Press "Enter" to select "File scan".