http://www.washington.edu/pine/changes/4.62-to-4.63.html
Specific notable user-visible changes:
* When cancelling a message being composed the commands are now "^C"
followed by "_C_onfirm" instead of "^C" followed by "_Y_es". "^C"
"Yes" was close to "^X" "Yes", the command used to send a message.
The change is there to prevent inadvertent cancellations. The old
behavior may be restored by setting the feature
Compose-Cancel-Confirm-Uses-Yes.
* Field for comments added to Rules. Warning: Don't use this field
until all of the Pines that you run are version 4.63 or higher,
since it will cause the Rule to be ignored in previous versions.
Additions include:
* Enable-Newmail-in-Xterm-Icon now also sets the title bar text to
indicate new mail
* New feature Enable-Newmail-Short-Text-in-Icon
* New UNIX Pine feature NewMail-FIFO-Path
* New feature NewMail-Window-Width
* Select command may use the pattern from an existing Rule (for
example, an Indexcolor Rule) for its selection criteria
* Beginning of Month and Beginning of Year options in Rules
* Some additional tokens having to do with the current date may be
used in the folder name that is used as a target in a Filter Rule.
For example, you may filter messages to a folder named for the
current month by using the _CURYEAR_ and _CURMONTH_ tokens in the
folder name. The (long) list of all such tokens is here.
* Three additional tokens for use with Keywords may be used in the
Index-Format. They are SUBJKEYINIT, KEY, and KEYINIT (in addition
to the old SUBJKEY).
* Keywords may be displayed in color using Keyword Colors, available
from the Setup/Kolor screen
* The Keyword-Surrounding-Chars option may be used to slightly
modify the display of SUBJKEYINIT and SUBJKEY tokens.
* The Enable-Flag-Screen-Keyword-Shortcut option adds a shortcut
method of setting keywords
* When performing an aggregate reply (or forward), if the Role that
would be selected when replying (or forwarding) to each individual
message in the set is the same for all the messages, then that
role is used just like it would be when replying (or forwarding)
to any one of those messages.
* Delete/No Delete prompt added to Save command so that the source
message may be deleted or not on a Save-by-Save basis
* Status-Message-Delay option now allows reducing the status message
delays Pine sometimes adds
* New feature Save-Partial-Msg-Without-Confirm
* New feature Disable-Take-Fullname-in-Addresses
* New feature Sort-Default-FCC-Alpha
* New feature Sort-Default-Save-Alpha
* For selecting messages by Status, add the possibility of selecting
based on Recent or Unseen status
* Allow Take command to take addresses from html and enriched text
subtypes, as well as from plain text
Bugs that have been addressed in this release include:
* Crash when sending a message with a Role that sets the To header
if the Empty-Header-Message is set to
* Pine hangs in composer after alternate editor or speller is run
and new mail arrives that causes an External Categorizer command
to be executed
* Crash in MESSAGE INDEX when using a threaded sort. The crash is
most common when the sort is Reversed.
* Pine could crash or hang when the window was resized down to 3
lines or fewer while in the composer
* In the Role editor the "To Folders" command for the "Set Fcc"
action did not work
* After running Pine for a long time, it would slow down until
restarted
* Export command in FOLDER LIST did not work with dual-use folders
* When the Send-Without-Confirm option was turned on, flowed text
was not produced and the Fcc-Without-Attachments feature did not
work
* Display bug, folder was not un-highlighted
* When viewing a message from the separate thread index, new mail
arrival could cause Pine to leave the MESSAGE TEXT screen and drop
back to the MESSAGE INDEX screen on its own
* When the UnDelete command was typed in the composer with the
cursor in the middle of a header line, the text was inserted at
the beginning of the line instead of at the location of the cursor
* When some messages from a thread were selected (not including the
top of the thread), the view was Zoomed, and the feature
Slash-Collapses-Entire-Thread was turned on; the collapse command
caused messages to disappear from the view entirely
* Incorrect character conversions were possible when going from
ISO-8859-X to ISO-8859-1
* Quell-Charset-Warning will now also quell the short comment
included in header lines about the charset being different from
yours in addition to quelling the editorial comment at the top of
a message. This is the stuff that looks like "[ISO-8859-2]" in a
header line.
* If the Down Arrow key was held down it caused Pine to do a new
mail check for each repeated character, which caused a delay when
the key was held down by mistake. Changed that so that it does at
most one check per second.
* An unnecessary sort of the folder (causing a delay) was happening
when closing if a filter rule depended on message state
* Mouse in xterm failed when clicking in the folder screen
* Enable-Dot-Folders feature did not allow adding folders with names
beginning with dot
* When replying to a TEXT/ENRICHED message Pine was failing to
filter out the ENRICHED markup
* Crash caused by malformed ISO-2022-JP in header
* Crash when changing Inbox-Path if INBOX was not the current folder
* Adding a collection on a Cyrus server did not work if the folder
already existed (Pine tried to create it and failed)
* Pine gave incorrect messages when deleting dual-use
folders/directories
* Saving an attached message to INBOX from another collection did
not work correctly (it tried to create INBOX in the collection
instead)
* In some circumstances, Pine could announce "No messages expunged
from folder " after an expunge command that actually worked
correctly
* Allow alternate editor to use quoted arguments
* News drop folders weren't using the correct newsrc with
Enable-Multiple-Newsrcs enabled
* Error decoding some 8-bit headers, typically showing up as a
garbage character at the end of a name
* In PC-Pine, add ability to do piping, Sending-Filters,
Display-Filters, and other operations where external command
execution is possible.
* Control margins in Message Viewing screen with Viewer-Margin-Left
and Viewer-Margin-Right
* Display flowed text well
* Send flowed text when possible, with the ability to turn this
behavior off through the new feature Quell-Flowed-Text
* Add keywords to folders using the Keywords option to set them up
and the Flag Command to set or clear them for particular messages.
* In Mac OS X, view and send attachments and URLs according to how
the system defines handling them, without relying on the existence
of a mailcap or mime.types file
* For PC-Pine, add a separate window that contains new mail
notifications for all folders currently opened (in PC-Pine Config menu).
* Reply or Forward using a Role by turning on the
Alternate-Role-Menu option
* More IMAP connection caching: control it with options
Stay-Open-Folders, Preopen-Stayopen-Folders,
Max-Remote-Connections, and Offer-Expunge-On-Stayopen-Folders
* New feature Offer-Expunge-On-Inbox
* An attempt is made to convert incoming UTF-8 messages to the
user's character set
* Added support for HOME and END keys in message view and message
index
* Prevent canonicalization of news server names by setting
Mult-Newsrc-Hostnames-as-Typed
* Remove hostname from NNTP Path header with Hide-NNTP-Path option
* Support for External Categorizer Commands in Rules
* Improved interface when editing rules with many comma-separated
values
* More control over mail checking frequency with
Quell-Mailchecks-Composing-Except-Inbox,
Quell-Mailchecks-Composing-Inbox, and
Mail-Check-Interval-Noncurrent
* More control over filtering of control characters to screen with
Pass-C1-Control-Characters-as-is option
* New Export and Unexport commands in FOLDER LIST screen
* Now possible to use message size in Rule Patterns
* As a convenience, a shortcut for the command line argument
"-feature-list=feature" is "-feature", for example,
"-signature-at-bottom" or "-no-signature-at-bottom"
* Add PC-Pine command-line argument "-registry noset"
* Add command-line argument "-nowrite_passfile"
* Add feature Quell-Attachment-Extension-Warn
* Add features Quell-Filtering-Messages and
Quell-Filtering-Done-Message
* Add feature Quell-Charset-Warning
* Add feature Maildrops-Preserve-State
* Don't remove whitespace from the end of lines, a behavior which
can be turned off through the new feature
Strip-Whitespace-Before-Send
* Double dollar sign escapes special meaning of dollar sign in both
Unix Pine and PC-Pine (Using Environment Variables)
* RedHat and Debian ports more closely obey the Linux Hierarchy
Standard
* Improve performance of Select command when using Narrow or Broaden
and talking to an IMAP server
* Add feature Disable-Terminal-Reset-For-Display-Filters
* When displaying a message with QP encoding errors, instead of just
reporting "Non-hexadecimal character in QP encoding" and then
giving up, attempt to do the best possible
* Add feature Show-Sort
* Add feature Downgrade-Multipart-To-Text
* Add feature Dead-Letter-Files
* Port named "soc" is an attempt to use native Solaris compiler
* Add ability to justify the full message from the composer by doing
Control-W Control-J
* Bug fixes
Additions include:
* enable-multiple-newsrcs makes Pine use a different newsrc file for
each NNTP server
* predict-nntp-server makes Pine use current NNTP server for posting
* Now possible to set the outgoing NNTP server based on the Role being
used
* Option tab-checks-recent to have TAB display number of recent messages
in a highlighted folder
* For aggregate Saves there is now a default Save folder, which is
derived from the first message being saved
* If Unix Pine alternate compose editor returns nonzero,
ask the user if they want to use the resulting file anyway
* Environment variable, "h_news_config", default values
supported
* Missing arguments to -f or -F are prompted for
* Some speedup to subscribe to news when the whole list of groups is not
needed
Bugs that have been addressed in this release include:
* Mbox functionality was broken
* Take to a Filter or other Rule crashed in 4.55
* Crash when Sorting on an IMAP server which does not have SORT
extension and some other related mystery crashes
* Features which were changed in Setup/Config and then backed out by
answering "No" would sometimes stay changed until
quitting Pine
* After UnCut in composer headers leave the cursor positioned at the
end of the uncut text instead of at the beginning or end of the line
* When Unix Pine forwarded address book entries as a Vcard attachment
it added extra carriage returns which caused problems
* Full header prevented the ability to view the ATTACHMENT INDEX
screen
* In MIME Digests, Newsgroups, References, and other headers were
ignored when viewing or replying to messages inside the digest
* PC-Pine installer could possibly present incorrect information for
the mail server login name
* Roles with search criteria weren't being used when composing a new
message
* For attachments of type application/octet-stream, place precedence
of a mailcap entry over the file's extension
- move parts of DESCR to MESSAGE
- USE_PKGINSTALL
- add ncurses-buildlink
- on linux, link with -lncurses rather than -lcurses
While there, shuffle some definitions around to match overall order.
Don't use the nonexistent ../pico/cc5.sol as LDCC, set it to ${CC}
Add -lnsl -lsocket to the libraries.
libc-client is in $(CCLIENTLIB) not $(CCLIENTDIR)
* Answered flag not set in some circumstances when replying
* PC-Pine command line argument -passfile to change the name of the
password file. This should be a fully-qualified filename.
* Replying to a message may close the folder containing the message
* Pine fails to compile in non-DEBUG mode.
* PC-Pine crashes in some dialogs when run in Dialog Box mode.
* Setup/Signature prefers literal-signature by default
* Composer justify command handles nested quoting better
* Increased efficiency for remote configurations (no temporary files)
* New tokens SIZECOMMA (similar to 4.33 SIZE) and SIZENARROW for index-format
* Select by size (thanks to Martin Gallwey)
* New feature quell-content-id for working around Outlook XP problem
* New PC-Pine feature quell-ssl-largeblocks for working around OS
SSL-problems
* Better color interoperability between PC-Pine and Unix Pine with
16-color xterm
* New PC-Pine dialog to aid in locating configuration file if none found
* Save from local folder to simple name in remote collection fails
* Crash when selecting folders by Properties (Unseen...) in local collection
* Crash when talking to POP3 servers which have the EXPIRE capability
* Crash when talking to SMTP server which offers STARTTLS
* Crash when accessing remote config if there is a TLS failure
* Crash when index-format includes SCORE token, a score rule includes
an AllText pattern, and the folder being scored is remote
* Delivery Status Notification (DSN) broken
* Editing reply-indent-string was broken when using Windows dialog boxes
* Entire folder is re-filtered when Save is typed and save-will-advance is set
+ restore definitions of RM and LN in makefile.neb, as they're used
later on in the file.
+ if we're going to the bother of passing PREFIX to the invocation of
make, we might as well use PREFIX rather than LOCALBASE in the definition
of CCLIENTDIR.
Patch supplied by martti.kuparinen@iki.fi in PR pkg/12222
Changes in 4.33
* NNTP authentication causes crash
* Attachment viewing broken
* Display-Filters and Url-Viewers with quoted arguments in config
broken
* Reverse sorting doesn't work correctly with filters
* Some combinations of non-ascii characters in subject cause crash
* Add version information to PC-Pine
* Top line in news index was painted incorrectly at times
* Crash caused by debugging when > 1K config lines are present
* PC-Pine LDAP crash caused by using incorrect memory free routine
* Save size check was disabled in multi append
Changes in 4.32
* File attaching broken (double filename) in PC-Pine
* Postponing loses second reply-to address
* Obscure crash when sorting by Threads
* Temporary file vulnerabilities
* Crash when NNTP authentication aborted
* Make /secure work again (broken in 4.30)
* Setup printer list problems with $PRINTER
* Recognize Re[arbitrary stuff]: reply syntax
* Allow for attaching files on a Windows network drive
Changes in 4.31
* Crashes when sorting by Threads
* Text of last message could be invisible with header larger than 4096
bytes
* Fixed a few buffer overflow possibilities
* Many problems if compiled without -DDEBUG
* Eliminated length restriction on address book comments
* Couldn't expand collections when selecting if combined-folder-display
set
* List options set only in fixed config didn't work
* Filtering based solely on scores didn't work
* Filtering to non-existent folder didn't ask to create the folder
* Save to default folder didn't work if the folder didn't already exist
* Crash when using WhereIs in Setup/Kolor with color turned off
* News collections would sometimes show up doubled until restarting
* Crash when accepting default in shuffle folder list command
* PC-Pine didn't always save window position
* Last-folder-used rule didn't always save the name of first saved
folder
* Rule editor address selector should allow multiple addresses
* Added Replicate command for Rules
* News validation doesn't validate against multiple news servers
* Reply to some text/html messages with attachments incorrectly set
content-type to text/html
* mail-directory setting in pine.conf doesn't work
with libimapuw (at least on ELF) _need_ to explicitly bring in -lssl -lcrypto.
In the future, when updating a package, _please_ check any packages which depend
on that package to make sure they aren't broken by the change. It took a _long_
time to find out that pine was broken on this machine (a SparcClassic).
Fixes another security hole...
Full list of changes:
* Configuration flexibility
+ pine configurations can now be stored remotely on an imap
server for access from different locations without the need
to configure for each location.
+ configuration may be split into two parts: generic
configuration and exceptional, per-platform configuration.
+ signatures can now be stored remotely or as part of the
pinerc file
+ for configuration options which are lists, inheritance is
supported
* New security features
+ SSL support for Unix Pine (source code only)
+ SSL enhancements for PC-Pine
* Minor rule enhancements
+ status of a message (New, Deleted, etc.) can now be used as
criteria for pattern matching.
+ "move-only-if-not-deleted" option in filtering to lessen the
chance of messages being filtered more than once when running
multiple pine sessions.
+ ability to set arbitrary headers in roles.
+ news filtering made more efficient.
* Basic threaded sorting (Expanded functionality to be added in a
future version).
* Enhanced MAPI support for PC-Pine
* Various other new features and configuration options
+ alternate-compose-menu
+ by-replyto for saved-msg-name-rule
+ check-newmail-when-quitting
+ continue-tab-without-confirm
+ expose-hidden-config
+ expunge-only-manually
+ incoming-startup-rule additions
+ literal-signature
+ mark-for-cc
+ prefer-plain-text
+ pruning-rule, for monthly sent-mail renaming and deleting
+ quell-extra-post-prompt
+ hidden feature allow-changing-from defaults to on
* New command line options:
+ -p , pinerc can now refer to a remote mailbox which
contains the configuration file
+ -x , is how you override your default
pinerc settings with exceptions for a particular platform,
may be local or remote
+ -aux , allows you to tell
Pine the local directory to use for auxiliary files when
pinerc is remote (PC-Pine only)
+ -copy_pinerc and -copy_abook options
+ -v option
Bugs that have been addressed in this release include:
* Incoming mail with an extremely long From address can cause a
buffer overflow on the stack (security)
* X-Keywords crash for unix formatted mailboxes
* Composer word wrapping needlessly wraps words
* New messages appear in zoomed view
* "Bad msgno 0" filtering crash
* "+" during login doesn't always mean that SSL is being used
* news filtering refilters messages that had already been filtered
* Goto and Save can't access folders that are readable but not
listable
* Goto doesn't allow access of folders outside of a Collection List
* PC-Pine SSL functionality broken in Windows 2000/Millennium
* FromOrTo and To in index-format don't work for newsgroups
* Sorting by score doesn't always work
* Viewing of very large messages uses more memory than is need
* Loss of body for reply to multipart/signed mime messages
* Pine crashes when replying to or forwarding messages with certain
types of attachments
* Brackets are falsely recognized as url characters
* Crash when enclosing options in quotes for PC-Pine
* Newsgroup posting doesn't allow posting to additional news servers
turned off in the pine global config file, but cannot be turned on
if not compiled in. Of course, the `security' this provides is
entirely phony, but those that feel more comfortable with it disabled
can still do so with the binary pacakge.
