Pegasus Mail/DOS v3.1 released

[Martin Bily]

David Harris uvolnil novou verzi programu Pegasus Mail. Puvodni
oznameni pripojuji. Program naleznete i na novell.felk.cvut.cz
v podadresari pmail.
                                        Martin Bily

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Pegasus Mail/DOS v3.1 is now available as a quarantined release from
risc.ua.edu, in /pub/network/pegasus/pmail310.zip.

**  PLEASE do NOT upload this version to CompuServe, other FTP sites
**  or to BBSs - risc.ua.edu is the ONLY authorised site for this release
**  until the quarantine period is finished (probably Friday this week).

Pegasus Mail v3.1 is a major new release of the system, with countless
reliability and performance changes, as well as some important new
functionality. The list below summarises the most significant changes
between 3.01a and this release. Manuals for this version are shipping
immediately - I hope to catch up on the considerable order backlog by
mid-April, and will begin by processing the oldest orders first.

The quarantine period on the software should not be taken as an
expectation of trouble - it is merely a buffer period during which I can
satisfy myself that there is nothing major which I or my beta test teams
have overlooked. If you DO encounter any problems with this release,
please notify me as soon as possible so I can fix it during the
quarantine phase.

As always, though - enjoy!

Cheers!

-- David --

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The following features or capabilities are new in Pegasus Mail 3.1:

  Noticeboards - a rich system-wide noticeboard feature accessible
  from the main menu.

  Glossaries: the DOS version of Pegasus Mail now has the Glossary
  text-abbreviation feature introduced in WinPMail 1.02. You can
  manage your glossary entries by pressing ^KG, and can expand a
  glossary abbreviation by pressing ^\ or Alt+G. Both versions
  share the same glossary file.

  Message annotations - notes attached to a message in a folder (in
  the 'Other' menu in the folder browser)

  Can mark read messages as unread (in the 'Other' menu in the folder
  browser).

  A new "Editor commands" menu is available while editing your mail
  messages by pressing <F10>. This should simplify the use of the
  more powerful editor features for neophyte users.

  Enhanced command line mail options, including the ability to start
  a keystroke macro from the command line.

  Program is now overlaid and hence has more memory available, but
  also can no longer be flagged Execute-only.

  A "global default" server access entry can now be created in the
  PCONFIG server list, containing values which should be used for
  all servers. The global record should contain "*" as the server
  name, and PConfig 3.1 will always ensure that this record is added
  at the end of the list. Because the global default record is always
  the last one scanned by Pegasus Mail, you can place exceptions to
  the global default in the list and Pegasus Mail will use them since
  it will find them before encountering the default.

  PCONFIG now has some context-sensitive online help, and will be
  improved in this area over time.

  'Raw' mode text display in the editor (^KZ). This toggle allows you
  to switch between the editor interpreting ^A, ^B and ^C characters
  (which affect brightness and colour) and raw display of these
  characters. If you want to add colour or highlighting to a message
  you should always do it in 'Raw' mode, since the cursor loses
  synchronization in interpreted mode.

  Justification and indenting features in the editor. ^KJ justifies
  the current paragraph between the left margin and the current right
  margin. Pressing <Alt+F> brings up the indentation menu, with three
  indenting options.

  Line drawing (Alt-L) and Box drawing (Alt-B) in the editor.

  Wordwrap while reading messages; pressing <W> while reading a
  message will wrap all long lines to fit the window. <W> is a
  toggle, remembered from session to session.

  PREBUILD is now built in to the folder selector. To rebuild any
  folder, simply highlight it in the folder selector, press <F10> to
  access the options menu, and choose "Rebuild".

  New general preferences options to suppress "Confirm delete"
  messages and to store copies-to-self of encrypted messages
  in encrypted format.

  Improvements to general MIME handling, including better descriptive
  information in multi-part messages and support for 8BIT MIME
  format.

  Better sensing and handling of attachments from other Internet
  mailers (for both BinHex and UUencoding).

  The trigger key is now displayed in the list of available macros
  when you press <^U>.

  Countless bug fixes and modifications for more consistent
  behaviour.

  MIME character translation tables can now be customised to your
  local code page using a PM-LMTT.RSC file - see the sample
  PM-LMTT.R file for more info.

------------------- David Harris -+- Pegasus Mail --------------------
  Box 5451, Dunedin, New Zealand  |  e-mail: david at pmail.gen.nz
 +64 3 4536880/Fax +64 3 4536612  |  CIS: >internet:david at pmail.gen.nz