WMMail.app-0.62 News
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$Id: NEWS,v 1.7 1999/01/16 05:42:40 bryan.chan Exp $



NEW FEATURES IN 0.62

  1. You can monitor any IMAP folder you want by specifying the 
     "Folder" keyword in the "Options" dictionary for the mailbox.

     e.g.  {
             Name = "IMAP mailbox";
             Type = imap;
             Options = {
               Hostname = "mail.server.com";
               Username = "foo";
               Password = "bar";
               Folder   = "baz";
             };
           }

     If the "Folder" keyword is omitted, then it defaults to "Inbox".

  2. You can monitor a MailDir folder. The path to the folder is
     specified with the "Path" keyword in the "Options" dictionary.
     The folder should contain two sub-directories: "new" which
     contains new mails, and "cur" which contains mails that have
     already been read.

  3. You can run WMMail.app with the "-quiet" or "-q" flag to make
     it really quiet; it will not print any error messages. Also,
     the "-s" flag has been added as a short-form of "-swallowed".



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
       /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 WMMail.defaults. 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 IMAP, MailDir, MH, and mbox mailboxes.
     POP3 support is still in the works. 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).

