EnRoute i-net 1.4.3a02

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Installing the i-net 1.4.3a02 release

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1) Delete the existing "EnRoute Internet" package from extensions.



2) Delete the existing "EnRoute Core" package from extensions.



3) Delete the "EnRoute POP List" soup from storage.



4) Reset the Newton. (recommended)



5) Download the new "EnRoute Core 1.4.3a02" to the internal store



6) Set your store to an external card (if you'd like)



7) Download the new "EnRoute Internet 1.4.3a02"



8) Download the "Message Headers" preference plugin.



9) Delete the existing "POP List Manager" package from extensions.



10) Download the new "POP List Manager"



The other 1.4.2 plugins work with this version so you can use as many of

them as you are accustomed to. They are provided with this release in the

"Plugins" folder in case you don't have access to them already.



TIP: If you don't use filtering regularly, you can turn off the Size Filter

and/or Rules Filter preferences and remove the filter packages from the

extensions drawer to conserve your storage space if it is at a premium. The

Text Encoding and Signature preference extensions do not have to be

installed either once you have decided on a suitable setting. These two

simply provide a user interface to allow you to set their preference.





New Features/Changes/Enhancements

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1) The Copy to Works tag action extension which was available as a seperate

module for the i-net transport has been integrated into the Core to make it

available to both i-net and cc:Mail.



2) A new Erase Text tag action has been added to the out box view so that

messages with extremely large amounts of text can be easily cleared. This is

often important when mailing large Works documents directly to other Newton

users to reduce the size of the message being transmitted.



3) Added support for the "Reply-To:" field in received messages.



The message info view now displays both the From address and the Reply

address.



If a received message has both a "From" address and a "Reply-To" address,

the following tag actions are available:



  Reply           - addresses the message to the "Reply-To" address

  Reply to Sender - addresses the message to the "From" address

  Reply to All    - addresses the message to all parsed addresses



4) Modified the Copy to Notes and Copy to Works tag actions so that they

will now copy the message headers with the text if the message view has the

headers visible (triangle toggled down). See the 1.4.2a01 notes below for

more information about the new Message Headers preference settings.



5) Expanded the message viewer to provide support for messages with more

than 32K of text. There is now a 680K limit on the maximum size of text

contained in a received message instead of the previous 32K.



A new "Part" button with a popup listing "1 of 6", "2 of 6", etc. now

appears at the lower left of the message view if the text is larger than 8K.

For now, the choice was made to split the message at 8K boundaries to

provide the best scroll performance inside the view.



6) Added support for the MIME content type "multipart/digest" to allow

reception of newsgroup digest messages. Now that the text length issues have

been resolved, these messages can now be viewed more easily in the in box.



7) Added support for the MIME content type "message/rfc822" to allow

reception of messages which aren't forwarded inline but are actualy

multipart components.



8) Added a new "0 items" selection to the "Download the first" picker in the

main preferences view. This is for users who wish to fill the POP list

without loading any messages and then rely on manual selection of messages

from the POP List Manager to manage their mail. Using this feature instead

of filters which skip all messages is actually much faster.



9) Added support for viewing and listening to "Sound Recording" messages in

the in and out boxes. With 1.4.2, you see blank messages when sending or

receiving Recording notes. To work around the bug that prompted Apple to

remove this feature, recording has been disabled in the viewer while the

item is in the ioBox.





Bug Fixes

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1) Fixed a bug in the "Reply To All" code so that it can remove duplicate

email addresses which could appear when some received messages contained

duplicate addresses.



2) Fixed an exception handler in message parsing which was incorrectly

reporting that an array index was invalid if something prevented a message

from being completely received.



3) Resolved a bug in POP List indexing which was occurring when the POP

username and POP host both contained a domain.



4) Scheduled connections will now activate to perform both transmit and

receive sessions without setting the "After sending" preference to "Receive

mail". 



5) Limited the number of addresses parsed from the "TO:" and "CC:" fields of

received messages to 32 each in an attempt to prevent spam emails from

slowing down header parsing.





EnRoute i-net 1.4.3a01

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The alpha 1.4.3 build addresses some of the problems people encountered

switching from 1.4.1 to 1.4.2 as well as providing some new features such as

live message view scrolling.





The mail viewer in the ioBox is the only visible UI change. It now has a

live scroller and can display message headers.



Scanning the POP server for messages to receive is faster (again). I keep

finding more ways to optimize this as it seem to be the main bottleneck as

far as session speed is concerned.



One of the other changes I made related to a problem where a message had a

header which was far too large to be loaded by the endpoint and would freeze

the unit during retreival of the header. This is one that I'd classify as a

bug fix rather than a feature change. The header in question had about 2000

lines of "TO:..." and was generated by a junk mailer originating at

Compuserve. EnRoute can now gracefully handle this condition although the

message will have to appear as if it had only one "TO:" address!



Message Headers Preference

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A new Message Headers preference view is available which allows you to

customize the way that reception of messages is handled.



1) Storage of internet headers withing inbox messages may be turned on. When

the headers are available, the inbox viewer has a triangle toggle to make

the headers visible.



2) There is now an option to turn off storing all headers in the POP soup

which you'll see in the new preference "Message Headers". This can reduce

the amount of store required when getting a large list of messages. When you

select "Discard headers" the receive session reverts to the older i-net

1.4.1 method which actually works better with certain POP servers. This

means that each time the POP server is checked a "TOP" command will have to

be issued to load the message headers even though the message was checked

during an earlier session.



3) Partial scanning of the POP server's list is now available from the

"Scan" picker. If you have a large number of messages that you keep on your

server it's advisable to use the new Message Headers preference settings to

limit the portion of the POP server's list which is scanned. Personally, I

now set mine to retrieve only the most recent 20 messages when I'm able to

do bulk archiving and management using my desktop machine.



4) Selecting "Discard out of range POP List" will increase the speed of the

UIDL parsing when long lists of messages are left on the POP server. BUT,

this will make it difficult to use the POP List Manager if you are

alternating between the "only the most recent" and "only the oldest" Scan

setting or if the number of message on your server changes rapidly. Messages

marked for Read or Delete may no longer be in the list of "most recent"

messages and will not be touched.





Have fun,



Les