Pine Release Notes Version 4.40 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 4.40 Version 4.40 introduces some new functionality and addresses bugs found in earlier releases. Additions include: * TLS and SSL support + TLS is fully supported in sources + SSL is fully integrated in the source, due to changes in US export regulations + For Unix and Windows 2000 Pine, server certificates must be signed by a trusted certificate authority * Help for managing remote config and address books + Command line method to convert sigs from files to literal (-convert_sigs) + Standalone commands rpload and rpdump to load and dump files to and from remote config or address book folders * New rules-based methods for setting up per-folder startup rules, sorting, and index format * Rules-based filtering can now set message state (Important, Deleted, ...) * Expunge now causes filter rules to be re-examined * New printer type "attached-to-wyse" * New feature enable-take-export * New Setup/Kolor option Current Indexline Style * New hidden feature disable-password-caching * New hidden feature disable-shared-namespaces * Some new tokens available, including KSIZE, SMARTTIME, SMARTDATETIME, SCORE, and INIT * New by-realname "saved-msg-name-rules" * New command line argument -supported Bugs that have been addressed in this release include: * PC-Pine splash screen remains visible if started minimized * Allow longer folder names * Crash when posting news and no nntp-server defined * Config changes not flushed to remote config folder when exiting without quitting Pine * Temp files not removed when exiting without quitting Pine * TakeAddr crash on encoded addresses * TakeAddr removed old entry when nickname matched, even if user said "no" * Newmail added to folder by a filter was not sorted correctly * From header not always popping up in composer after postpone * Select by Date in newsgroups broken * Multi-line subject breaks new mail message * Extra F (FFrom) written to mailbox in some situations 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 Pine is also available for Windows 32-bit environments. 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. Pine, Pico and Pilot Copyright 1989-2001 University of Washington Additional legal notices can be found here or at the web URL: http://www.washington.edu/pine/legal