Subject: Pine 3.86 released

From: Michael Seibel <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1993 19:15:42 -0700 (PDT)

Version 3.86 of Pine and PC-Pine is now available.  The release also
includes new versions of Pico and IMAPd. 

STATUS...

This is primarily a maintenance release, although there are actually a
couple of new features (and therefore a chance of a few new bugs).  In a
few cases, we changed Pine's behavior back to the way it was before 3.85,
based on feedback from you. 

There are some important bug fixes, so we encourage everyone to upgrade to
3.86 as soon as possible.  You should update your IMAPd as well. Pine's
method of discovering remote folders has been changed (to avoid an
unfortunate conflict with other IMAP clients that make use of a hidden
.mailboxlist file) but will be somewhat slower *unless* using the new
IMAPd.  There are other IMAPd fixes as well. 

The list of changes/fixes is appended... and is quite long, considering 
that 3.85 is only two weeks old!

HOW TO GET IT...

--> Via anonymous FTP

  ftp pine.cac.washington.edu
  user: anonymous
  passwd: your email address
  binary
  cd mail
  get pine.tar.Z    <-- full distribution, including Pico and IMAPd
  get pcpine_f.zip  <-- version for FTP PC/TCP
  get pcpine_n.zip  <-- version for Novell LWP
  get pcpine_s.zip  <-- version for Sun PC/NFS
  get pcpine_p.zip  <-- version for Packet Driver
  quit

There will also be precompiled binaries available for certain
platforms.  These will have names like pine-bin.ultrix.

--> Via PC-Pine

PC-Pine users can also obtain new versions via the "Update" option under 
the Main Menu "Setup" command.  From the Folder Index of the Update 
Server, just select and View the msg containing the version you need, 
then View/Save the attached Zip file.

Note: it is still true that, because attachment encoding/decoding has not
*yet* been performance-tuned, using Update and Save will be slower than
FTP, but it may be more convenient. 

RELEASE NOTES (Changes since 3.85)...

 -Revert to having GOTO enabled by default.
 -Revert to allowing open folders to be deleted.
 -Revert to former meaning of -i command line flag.
 -Add command line flag -I for initial keystroke list (replaces -i overload).
 -Make personal feature list add to global feature list instead of replace.
 -Allow negation of previously-enabled features by prefixing "no-".
 -Add "by-from" name rule; change "by-sender" to use Sender: field
 -Add "expunge-without-confirm" feature.
 -Add "auto-move-read-msgs" feature.

 -Change "save-by-X" rules to strip routing data from offered foldername.
 -Change Pine to use FIND ALL, to avoid conflict with .mailboxlist.
 -Change IMAPd's FIND ALL behavior to not check file type. 
 -Change Tenex-format mailbox extensions from .txt to .TxT.
 -Change composer to only put one blank between .sig and included text.
 -Change pine to expand tabs on fixed, 8-char boundaries.
 -Change address book nickname display length to match input limit.
 -Change inline-text encoding rule to use quoted-printable more often.
 -Change NewVersion message to indicate it only shows once, etc.
 -Change wording of monthly pruning message.
 -Change Ctl-K message to appear less frequently.

 -Fix: Delete in/after spell-check may trash msg or crash Pine.
 -Fix: crash resulting from M->S->? key sequence. 
 -Fix: crash resulting from null To: field. 
 -Fix: crash resulting from "::" in From: header.
 -Fix: crash resulting from replying to above.
 -Fix: for long headers (address lists longer than a screen). 
 -Fix: [Mark Set] message should vanish after ^K. 
 -Fix: "No attachments" msg in Postpone is too long to fit. 
 -Fix: Ext. help inclusion confusion (insert page breaks as file is read). 
 -Fix: Low-speed fixes that broke in Pico 2.0.
 -Fix: Select/Goto should return to previous folder when open fails.
 -Fix: Spaces at beginning of filenames are now ignored in Save/Export.
 -Fix: put domain literal brackets around X-Sender when necessary.
 -Fix: Can't save to INBOX if "inbox" is implicit in inbox-path.
 -Fix Pico so lines w/tabs display correctly when characters deleted. 
 -Fix negative network number in bracketed host numbers for DOS SMTP clients.
 -Fix Tenex driver to never cause a kiss-of-death to be sent or received.
 -Fix: Some global config options not transferred/displayed correctly?
 -Fix: Use "default state" when returning to INBOX, instead of wrong msg #.

 -Make PC-Pine more graceful when out of memory during a Send.
 -Suppress From: (Sender Unknown) in included headers for -nr mode
 -Improve performance of TAB and Del-skips-del on large folders.
 -Improve failure case when .addressbook or .pinerc can't be re-written.
 -IMAPd ignores kiss-of-death if current mailbox is not bezerk, mmdf, or mbox
 -Use XHDR in NNTP client drivers to work around a missing LISTGROUP command.
 -Internal FIND/FIND ALL redesign (no user or Pine-visible changes)
 -Create separate VAX ULtrix (VUL) port.
 -Rsh program name and pathname now set in c-client makefile for each port.
 -Modify some ports to be only makefiles (and perhaps os_???.h files).
 -Suppress Tenex driver new-mail snarf if it can't get RW access to spool.

As always, thanks for your interest in pine!

The Pine Team