Post Road Mailer

New features added between Post Road Mailer 2.6 and 3.0: Sent notes can now be filed to a folder named "<Current Month>", which the program evaluates at send time to produce a folder named, for example, 1997oct, and if the folder doesn't exist, it is automatically created so the note can be filed there. (APAR #998) New setting (on Misc page of settings notebook) to turn off the counting of the folder contents, when opening the List of Folders window. (APAR #331) Route function (for notes you've previously sent and for notes you've received) lets you forward one or multiple notes, without opening the compose window and without having to do them each separately. A dialog with full address book support allows you to specify who to send them to, and optionally, a short block of text that will precede the forwarded text. (APAR #663) Resend option (for notes you've previously sent) now has two submenu entries; the new one lets you send one or multiple notes directly to the outbasket, to be resent to the original addressees, without changes, without opening the compose window and without having to do them each separately. (APAR #663) "Content-type: text/html" message body parts inside a multipart/mixed message are now handled the same as if they were "Content-type: text/html" messages. (APAR #1012) Option "Save the list of notes to a file" in inbasket and folder windows, to export the contents of the window in its current sort order, to a text file which the user can print, edit, etc. (APAR #917) Optional toolbar, with bubble help, to be used in place of (or along with, if anyone wants to) the old Action Pad. (APAR #1024) New, cleaner icons for the notes in the inbasket and folder windows. (APAR #1024) User can specify the icon file he wants to use for any or all of the 18 icons that the program uses to represent unopened notes, opened notes, notes with attachments, notes to which you've replied, etc. (APAR #1022) Preview Mail feature's window now has a column for the To: address. (APAR #977) List of Folders window, and Select a Folder dialog, have "Expand all" and "Collapse all" options for easier viewing of the folder tree. (APAR #942) The folders, and the inbasket in Alternate view, now have a column which displays the byte size of the notes. (APAR #1023) Program now warns user when leaving an inbasket while outgoing mail is unsent (and there's a setting to turn off this warning if you don't want it). (APAR #1027) Notes in the "Alternate send queue" directory can now be sent even when there are no notes waiting to be sent in the outbasket folder. (APAR #982) There is now a way for Refresh exits and filter exits to add their own new *.POP files to the inbasket, such that they will show up in the note list window at the end of the Refresh cycle. (APAR #929) Program now sends and receives FaxWorks faxes in the format used by the newer email programs that are compatible with FaxWorks, as well as the format originated by PRM. (APAR #1017) Default is now SMTP send rather than POP3 send, since our customers' most popular ISP (Advantis, a.k.a. ibm.net) no longer supports POP3 send. (APAR #1014) Problems fixed between Post Road Mailer 2.6 and 3.0: Address book entries with a comma in the name field, and address names typed into the compose window's To: field manually with a comma between quotation marks, will no longer be split into two entries at the comma, when moving down into the address list box below the To: field. (APAR #408) Program now uses first three characters after the last period, rather than all the characters after the first period, as the filename extension to be used when creating an attachment file in the TRANFILE directory. This fixes a problem where the incoming attachment wouldn't be handled and the program complained of "Error 206 adding entry to trans list." (APARs #997 and #1006) Clicking on "Recycle connection" checkbox on Protocol page of settings notebook was toggling the "Send SMTP notes individually" checkbox instead, because the latter object was too wide and overlapped the former. (APAR #967) Program now understands many more date formats in the header lines of incoming notes, for display in the inbasket or folder note list windows, such as when day of week, four-digit year, and time zone are all missing, or when day of week or name of month is not abbreviated or is capitalized. (APARs #720 and #347) Fixed several problems with reading multi-line header fields of incoming notes: Addressing a reply to the contents of only the first line, of a multi-line Reply-to: or From: header, even if that first line contains only a name and no address; Mail Mapping feature only read the first line of a multi-line To: header on the POP3 server, unless the first line ended with a comma; Filters set to search To: field searched only the first line of a multi-line To: header. (APARs #657, #986, and 885) A likely workaround for a problem faced by In-Joy users: It appears that when In-Joy is configured to intercept TCP/IP requests and automatically dial and connect whenever a program attempts any TCP/IP activity, the TCP/IP request doesn't reach TCP/IP. Therefore, TCP/IP does not answer, of course. So the program waits the duration of the timeout period, and gives up. If it's not configured to start a dialer, then it has no idea that another attempt would be useful, so it tells the user that it couldn't connect. But since In-Joy has, by this time, dialed and connected after intercepting the first TCP/IP request, PRM would connect successfully if only it would try one more time. So now, it does try again for ten more seconds. This fix has not been tested with In-Joy, but we're confident it should do the trick. (APAR #1021) Notes marked for deletion were being copied or not copied, to the shred queue, depending on the state of the "Copy deleted notes to the shred queue" setting in the inbasket that's being switched to, rather than the setting in the inbasket being switched from (where the to-be-shredded notes were). (APAR #978) When the program cannot file a sent note to the folder it's supposed to be filed to upon sending, it now attempts to create that folder, by virtue of part of the new "<Current Month>" folder feature. But if the attempt fails (for example, because the parent directory of that folder doesn't exist either), the error message which comes is now more explanatory than it used to be, so the user can easily see the cause of the problem. (APAR #974) The dialog where the user creates a folder or inbasket now stresses the fact that the pathname entry means the pathname of the new folder or inbasket, not the parent directory in which the new directory will be created. Furthermore, the program will no longer allow the creation of an inbasket or folder in the main program directory or an inbasket subdirectory, to prevent the problems encountered by those who might still misunderstand what the pathname is supposed to mean. (APARs #971 and #179) Fixed typos in "Delte the selected notes?" message in folders, and "Word warp" menu option in the compose window. (APARs #969 and #1015) Select a Folder dialog now saves its font and background color. (APAR #983) For some strange reason, the message box which comes up to tell the user about POP3 errors during send (which is not OS/2's own message box, since that one can't be made to time out and go away by itself) hangs one user's Warp Server system! A workaround has been added: If the program finds a file named TIMEOUT.OFF in the directory where POSTROAD.EXE is, the program will not use the timeout message box, but will use the default OS/2 one which requires the user to press its OK button before the process will continue. (APAR #1025) With a certain combination of settings, the Distribution List was being printed even when it was turned off, if any Cc addresses were specified. (APAR #992) Not all characters of the time zone string were showing in the inbasket view, depending on the length of the entire date string. (APAR #1028) On incoming split attachments, the program now recognizes pieces as belonging together even if one's subject line has a leading space and the other one's does not. (APAR #758) The limit to the number of filenames the InnoVal Select a File dialog can handle in one directory has been raised to 3000. (APAR #762) Fixed SYS3175 with a certain combination of settings and sort order, when deleting (or moving) the last remaining inbasket note. Could also happen with non-last note, but was much easier to reproduce with the last one. Especially when reading from bottom to top of list, with sort order "Date (descending)". (APAR #1020) Fixed SYS3175 which occurred at the end of each Refresh if MIME$$\ATTACH.IND contained nonsense entries which claim to be piece number -3219 of 470751, for example. (APAR #1018) Fixed display of garbage in Attachments window, and sometimes SYS3175 or system hang upon closing it, when index file (TRANFILE.IND) contains entries with 90-character From fields and 280-character Subject fields. (APAR #950) Fixed SYS3175 during send of message with 91-character address. (APAR #1019) Fixed SYS3175 when receiving message with subject line 160 characters long. (APAR #996) Fixed SYS3175 upon receipt of message containing exceedingly long From: name or address, and/or blank inbasket display of such a note. (APAR #1002) Fixed SYS3175 in SpellGuard for PostRoad, checking a word (that is, a string which contains no characters that PRM considers to be delimiters, such as spaces and various punctuation symbols) of longer than 50 characters. This fix is not distributed as part of the Post Road Mailer. Owners of SpellGuard for PostRoad should contact InnoVal if they have not received instructions for getting this fix by October 31. (APAR #989)