Pine Release Notes Version 4.21 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, and NT). NEW IN PINE 4.21 Version 4.21 is mainly intended to fix bugs introduced in previous versions. Bugs that have been addressed in this release include: * 'N' flag not preserved across sessions * 'N' flag not cleared when messages containing non-text pieces viewed * Sort failure using non-UW IMAP servers * Linux port: failure to recognize resized display * Problems with quoted /user= argument in smtp-server config * Transient (e.g., mistyped password) authentication failures not reported * Rare cases of deleted header lines reappearing after ^X in Composer * Customized headers Bcc, To, Cc and Lcc not shown when posting news * Problem with role pattern vs. color patterns in a file * Problem with color display vs. single line scrolling * Last line of one-page message not displayed in rare cases * Text in Reply/Forward of encapsulated multipart/alternative and signed missing * Failure to recognize list management headers in sorted folder * Attachments sometimes marked for deletion when scoring in use * Delayed notification of messages filtered from Inbox to current folder * WhereIs to start or end of Folder List screen didn't * PC-Pine crash selecting text from secondary window * PC-Pine instances of "FOLDER CLOSED DUE TO ACCESS ERROR" General improvements include: * Filter performance and interface tuning: + User-Interface changes to avoid accidental deletion of mail + Action Folders local to PC-Pine no longer require double-backslashes + Improved expunge performance with filters enabled * NNTP performance improvements in MESSAGE INDEX screen * Role Command (#) improvements * Improved display of addresses containing comma in personal name * Numerous Text/HTML parser improvements * Continued help text improvements 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 accesseible 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 avilable 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. Pine, Pico and Pilot Copyright 1989-1999 University of Washington Additional legal notices can be found here or at the web URL: http://www.washington.edu/pine/legal