WMMail.app-0.64 News
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$Id: NEWS,v 1.9 2000/07/02 20:40:41 bryan.chan Exp $



SYNOPSIS

  This is a maintenance release, fixing a number of things and adding
  things that should have been there long ago. There are no major new
  features.



NEW FEATURES IN 0.64

  1. You can make WMMail.app show the names of the mailboxes containing
     new messages with the new "DisplayEachMailbox" keyword. If it is
     set to "Yes", the name of each mailbox containing new messages is
     shown along with its message counts, one after another. (The speed
     at which the displayed text is updated depends on the speed of the
     icon animation.) This feature is still experimental; its behaviour
     is likely to change in the future.

  2. POP3 support is complete.



NOT SO NEW FEATURES (COMPARED TO THE 0.5x series)

  1. WMMail.app now uses libPropList to read configuration data from
     GNUstep defaults domain. The defaults domain that is used can be
     specified on the command line, or the first one found from the
     following list:

       $GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT/Defaults/WMMail
       $HOME/GNUstep/Defaults/WMMail
       $GNUSTEP_LOCAL_ROOT/Defaults/WMMail
       @prefix@/GNUstep/Defaults/WMMail
       /usr/local/GNUstep/Defaults/WMMail
       $GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT/Defaults/WMMail
       /usr/GNUstep/Defaults/WMMail
       
     This hopefully makes distribution maintainers and sysadmins happy.
     An example domain is provided in Defaults/WMMail. You should
     definitely edit it before trying to use it on your system.

     Unfortunately, for now you will have to hand-edit the defaults domain.
     There will be a GUI tool for it in the future.

     The old .wmmailrc configuration file is not used any more.

  2. WMMail.app now supports POP3, IMAP, MailDir, MH, and mbox mailboxes.
     If you have a favourite mailbox format that should be supported, you
     are welcome to submit a patch. For ideas, take a look at wmmail.[ch],
     properties.[ch] and mbox.[ch].

  3. WMMail.app now uses automake/autoconf to configure itself. You are
     advised to disable support for any mailbox format you won't use, in
     order to save space. For example, if you only use UNIX mbox files
     and POP3, run configure as follows:

       ./configure --disable-mh --disable-maildir --disable-imap

  4. Different mailboxes can have different update intervals. For
     example, you can check a local mbox more often (e.g. every 15
     seconds) than you would want to check a remote POP3 mailbox
     (e.g. every 5 minutes).