Changes from Pine 4.02 to 4.03
This information is also available in Pine 4.03 itself, in the Release Notes which can be accessed from Pine's MAIN MENU screen:
Version 4.03 is a maintenance release (i.e. primarily bug fixes) for
Unix Pine, but it also represents the debut of PC-Pine version 4.xx.
In addition, there are a few new capabilities (listed below). An
extensive list of bugs fixed appears further below.
* Inclusion of improved LDAP library support (courtesy Netscape
Inc.)
* Index: New date format options
* By popular demand, revert to displaying multiple addresses per
line
* URL Viewers variable: explicit URL quoting is no longer needed
* Address Book Setup: Allow use of {} on server name for consistency
* Address Book View: some minor format adjustments
* Address Book: after update, etc, go back to list of entries
* Changed text of lock error warning message to be more helpful:
* "Mailbox vulnerable - directory must have 1777 protection"
* Added support for Authenticated SMTP servers using "Simple
Authentication and Session Layer"
* Added support for POP authentication via "Simple Authentication
and Session Layer"
* More coherent "path resolution"
* Numerous PC-Pine improvements, including:
+ Use of Windows registry in lieu of mailcap and mimetypes
files
+ Use of Windows registry to find default browser
+ Context sensitive right-mouse-button pop-up menus
+ Ability to copy/paste via keyboard commands, e.g. Ctl-Shift-V
+ Improved menus/dialog boxes
Bug fixes in Pine 4.03:
More efficient pre-fetching of data when Index is sorted
View: "NEW" in message view titlebar restored
View: Change highlighting of selectable items to follow viewport
"[NOTIMAP4] can't do peeking fetch" still in 4.02
Compose from Postponed folder causes INBOX to go READONLY
Piping through cat: "down arrow doubles newlines"
Pico temp files not being deleted -Solaris
pico.#.bak files not getting deleted -FreeBSD
Changed back to using /tmp for editor temp files
Attachment filename cutoff on forward/reply
Lose the blank line at the beginning of an Exported msg
Add new collection: don't make default unless we prompt,
will make Add always append
Title text for help, make generic sub help titles
Context handling, e.g. -f /foo/bar requires -c 0
Can't reply to some multipart MIME where text part is buried
HTML help: list items truncated
Bug found in folder save routine Pine 4.0
Postpone loses references header
If sig dashes set, don't add them if already present
Alignment of [ The following text...] message
"Opening INBOX..." message doesn't go away
Pico "error preparing to close" on freebsd 2.2.1 (ffclose patch)
Help text on Linux not being rendered
Postpone loses references header
pine.conf.fixed doesn't disable url-viewer prompt
Pine tries CREATE INBOX on IMAP4-1 server
Group addresses are missing trailing semicolon now
Saving attachments with spaces in filename still broken
search-and-replace fails if target is null string
Search failed: Unknown Search Criteria
< doesn't take you to next level up the folder hierarchy
Rfc822_write_address doesn't append a comma after a group address
Compose with mh folders -> "No such folder" now in 4.xx
MIME attachment buffer overrun fixes
Reference lines being split incorrectly
Reply-to-all ignores unqualified CC addresses
Display filters vs. busy spinner
Send: problem w/ terminating SMTP session with CR.CR
Send: AIX: Pine now (4.02) hangs while sending mail on AIX 4.1.4
News: Can't subscribe to newsgroup if its a substring of another
News: Exclude shows total # of msgs, not the # being excluded
News: Unexclude and then exclude lose the orig sort order
News: Exclude bug
News Add: TAB completes even when there is more than one choice
News: Typo in arg to Add prevented subsequent operation
Newsgrp list: "D" causes crash if no newsgroups subscribed
Crash: "Bad msgno 0 in mail_elt"
Crash: new_context returns null after Enter [] for fldr view
Crash: Attempt to reply to bogus MIME message
Crash: Select ; t t
Crash: Saving msg with blank From /
Null address crash/security vulnerability /
SIGIOT crash
Crash: If mailcap file is not readable
Crash: Can't add addresses to list, same w/ take
Crash: after FCC create rejected
Crash: When reading multipart html
Crash: When reading HTML from MS Word via Netscape
Crash: Resume Compose while in postponed folder w/ 1 msg
(Bky format specific?)
Abk: Show commas in address book View
Abk: Fix missing comma in ComposeTo
ABk: Problems updating lists in addrbook
ABk: Select just indents entries... hard to tell /
"Left border is not seen"
PC-Pine: URL launching via registry shakeout
PC-Pine: Ctl-Shift-V doesn't work in prompt strings
PC-Pine: General Help displayed as raw HTML
PC-Pine: Addressbook update now works with multiple sessions
C-Client: 4.xx can't read MMDF folder with single separator lines
C-Client: Sort-by-Subject: leading "[" used to be ignored
C-Client: Empty group list selection (Foster) search on To vs. :;
C-Client: "Undisclosed recipients" address bug
C-Client/mail.c null From confuses address length calculation
C-Client: Cross-format COPY to INBOX fails
SGI: problem w/low_speed... patch provided
SGI: TERMIO problem
Solaris: Literal '<' bug with enable-arrow-navigation
Build: Makefiles removing some .ic files
Build: Freebsd: shared lib conflict (incr version # libpico.so ?)
Build: Linux: build slx vs. lnx confusion
Build: SGI: Irix make doesn't like "rm"
Build: DU 4.0D patch provided
Build: LynxOS flags problem
Build: Change EXTRALIBS to EXTRALIBES to match pico and c-client
Build: Made location of pine.conf consistent on all ports
Build: BSD 2.0 problems: changes provided
Solaris/gcc: can't find srandom (Added comment to pine-ports.)
Doc: Format errors in R.N. text (FreeBSD)
Doc: X-UNKNOWN-CHARSET gets set when Pine sees an 8bit char
Doc: URL-viewers: absolute path required
Doc: Export saves result of display filtering, e.g. PGP sig verify
Doc: Help text refers to non-existent "E" and "K" cmds
RelNotes: clarify which support files can be remote vs local
RelNotes: Mention of .ab* files in the list of support files
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