Pine Release Notes Version 4.30 University of Washington Pine(R) is the University of Washington's "Program for Internet News and Email". It is intended to be an easy-to-use program for sending, receiving, and filing Internet electronic mail messages and bulletin board (Netnews) messages. There are versions that will run on many different flavors of the Unix(R) operating system, as well as a version with GUI amenities for 32-bit flavors of Microsoft Windows (95, 98, NT, 2000, and Millennium). NEW IN PINE 4.30 Version 4.30 is an evolutionary release that introduces both new functionality as well as addresses several bugs found in earlier releases. Major new additions include: * 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 Additional details on changes in this (and previous) versions of Pine may be found at the following URL: http://www.washington.edu/pine/changes.html ____________________________________________________ GETTING HELP Online Help Every Pine screen and command has associated help text accessible via the "?" key (or Ctrl-G in text-input contexts). Web Help The most current source of information about Pine, including new version availability, is the web page at http://www.washington.edu/pine/ Frequently Asked Questions (and answers) may be found at the following URL: http://www.washington.edu/pine/faq/ Some topics of current interest include: * Information on Folder Locking * Information on Missing mail and the mbox driver * Information on Folder Namespaces ____________________________________________________ ADDITIONAL INFORMATION General Pine configuration information can be found here. Pine is also available for Windows 32-bit environments. More information on PC-Pine can be found here. Pine was developed by the Office of Computing & Communications at the University of Washington in Seattle. A more complete list of principal players and key contributors can be found on the credits Web page at http://www.washington.edu/pine/credits Pine and Pico are trademarks of the University of Washington. 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