Pine Release Notes Version 4.50 (built 2002-11-20) 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, Me, and XP). New in Pine 4.50 Version introduces some new functionality and addresses bugs found in earlier releases. Additions include: * Threading support + Threading display styles configurable (Threading-Display-Style) + Threading index styles configurable (Threading-Index-Style) + Options to affect threading display, "Threading-Indicator-Character", "Threading-Expanded-Character", and "Threading-Lastreply-Character" + Feature to color thread index lines the same color as the Important symbol "thread-index-shows-important-color" + Feature to make slash command collapse whole thread instead of just the subthread at current line "slash-collapses-entire-thread" + Feature to keep Pine from asking you about Next and Prev commands when they move you to another thread ("next-thread-without-confirm" * Rule Pattern enhancements + Non-terminating Filter Rules + New option in Rule Patterns to match message body text but not headers + "Not" ("!") operator in Header patterns, AllText patterns, and BodyText patterns + New option in Rule Patterns to match messages of a certain age + New option in Rule Patterns to match messages with raw 8-bit characters in the Subject (Raw 8-bit in Subject) + New option in Rule Patterns to match messages which have a From or Reply-To address which is in your address book (more) + New option in Rule Patterns to match messages which are Recent + If Patterns contain elements that are unrecognized, most likely because they are from a version of Pine which is newer than the Pine that is running, Pine will not act on them. _WARNING_: If you are using a version of Pine which is 4.50 or newer and also using a version which is older than 4.50 you should probably read this additional information. * New option to use a role-based SMTP server * Rudimentary support for converting a message in a character set different from yours to your character set when displaying the message (more). The old, broken ISO_TO_CP and CP_TO_ISO hooks have been removed. * Rudimentary support for ISO-2022-JP. Uses EUC for UNIX Pine with terminals that understand how to display EUC, and uses Shift-JIS for PC-Pine (more). * Fcc copies of sent mail may be automatically marked Seen * Select text body (excluding header) option * New feature "enable-full-header-and-text" * New feature "quell-attachment-extra-prompt" * New color feature "Titlebar-Color-Style" * More new index format tokens * "Pass-control-characters-as-is". feature is always turned on in PC-Pine now * Now possible to search LDAP from bounce command with ^T * Attachment viewing now offers option to view by file extension if mime type is unknown * New PC-Pine feature "store-window-position-in-config" * New PC-Pine command line flag "-nosplash" to disable splash screen * New feature "quell-timezone-comment-when-sending" for working around paranoid SMTP servers * Hidden feature "quell-maildomain-warning" * Add References header to all replies, whether it be in newsgroups or email * More efficient use of IMAP connections when viewing and managing folders * New PC-Pine registry setting for the pine.conf file * Pico only preserves the start-stop characters (^Q/^S) if given the -p option * If a filter sets status bits and then the user uses D, U, or * command on a message, don't refilter that message when expunging. _WARNING_: it will still be refiltered next time the folder is opened. * Trivial change so that cursor advances when unselecting the current message and a new feature to restore the old behavior "unselect-will-not-advance" Bugs that are addressed in this release include: * Potential security problem with remote data folders * Potential denial of service with maliciously-crafted From: header * Bug in HTML parser that left underline character turned on * Bug in HTML parser that swallowed last character when there was a wrap * Crash in HTML parser when encountering many links on one line * Recognize HTML