What has happened lately?
Here's the news:
2002-11-29, Beam 0.914 has been released, with the following enhancements and bugfixes:
- when adding attachments, Beam now checks if text-attachments in fact are text
(this fixes problems when adding MS-Word documents from non-BeOS partitions [like FAT32],
where BeOS believes these files are of type text/plain)
- fixed crash in quoting code when long lines containing only spaces were encountered
- corrected a bug that would cause Beam to drop attachments when saving a mail twice
before sending (of you lost attachments during send and could not reproduce the error,
this bug was probably the reason).
- Beam now handles empty group-lists (like "Undisclosed-Recipients:;" correctly
- finally found a way to let Beam delete messages no matter what Tracker is running
(LocaleTracker, OpenTracker or R5-Tracker)
- Beam no longer complains about disappearing files during node-monitoring (this is
especially useful when your system is running MDR2b4, which would trigger a lot
of complaints in Beam 0.913)
- removed two compiler switches (-no-pic and -fomit-frame-pointer) that were
supposedly used to optimize code-generation, but in fact were responsible for
random but severe crashes with completely corrupted stack-crawls
2002-11-15, Beam 0.913 has been released, with the following enhancements and bugfixes:
- 2-byte encodings (like iso-2022-jp) are handled more reliably now
- handling of cached mails is much faster
- MailView now supports unlimited undo/redo
- preference-dialogs work better now
- encoding-problems within signatures are fixed now
- Beam now has a real deskbar-item (which does not crash the original R5 deskbar)
- dynamic signatures are now interpreted as a shell-script, not as one single command
- replaced BeOS-native base64-functions by the ones from MDR (which do not seem to crash)
- split Beam into two seperate projects for R5 and BONE/Dano
- and many other (minor) bugfixes, usability and GUI-enhancements (see changes.txt)
2002-04-14, Beam 0.912 has been released, with the following enhancements and bugfixes:
- better support for forwarding & replying to multiple messages at once,
now you can choose whether or not to join the messages.
- added support for printing one or more messages.
- corrected some MIME-problems, increasing robustness and eliminating the compatibility-problems
Beam had with other mail-programs (like Mail-It or Eudora). These programs now
accept Beam-generated MIME-messages, including quoted-printables and attachments.
- doubleclicking a folder now opens the corresponding Tracker-window.
- deactivating the Desktop-icon does work now.
- added configurable delay before a shown mail is being marked as read.
- added option for using 8-bit-mime when constructing mails.
- added an option to switch between soft/hard-wrapping of the mailtext
(Beam always used soft-wrapping before).
- when requested, Beam can now contact a POP3/SMTP-server and suggest the best
(most "secure") authentication type.
- and other (minor) bugfixes, usability and GUI-enhancements.
2002-03-24, Beam 0.911 has been released, a(nother) hotfix:
- stupid bug fixed that caused Beam to crash when no state-info
was found, (like after first install...).
- forwarding attachments works correctly now.
2002-03-24, Beam 0.91 has been released, with many enhancements:
- header-view contents are now selectable and draggable.
- added support for redirecting mails.
- signature support added (for static and dynamic signatures).
- added automatic mail-checking (every xx minutes).
- all shortcuts are now configurable via prefs.
- added better quoting-modes (simple, push-margin and auto-wrap)
in order to reduce comb-like effect.
- added tooltips to all preferences-controls, which is one step
on the way to better usability (but online-help is still missing).
- added a Deskbar-icon that indicates the presence of new mail.
(This seems to constantly crash the R5 Deskbar, but it works
for OpenTracker & Dano versions...)
- Display-font can now be selected when viewing/editing mails.
- added option to show in- & out-folders always at top.
- Beam should now work under Dano (BeOS 5.1), since I do not
use Dano on a daily basis, your mileage may vary, but it
*should* work.
- Beam can now set itself up as preferred email application.
- Beam now correctly shows BeOS standard-icons for mails, if
it is preferred app.
- fixed problems with highlighting URLs that contain a tilde ('~').
- many more bugfixes, increased stability and other little improvements.
2002-02-22, Beam 0.903 has been released, a hotfix:
- Beam no longer complains about unknown prefs-field 'BeMailStyle'.
2002-02-22, Beam 0.902 has been released, fixing many bugs of first release:
- removed crashing bug when wildly moving through mailfolder-view.
- disabled selecting and invoking for the dummy-mailrefview used in prefs.
- make the reply-mode with selected text work (only selected text will be included in reply).
- enable people to send mail if there is no working name-service (Beam used to complain that it could not determine own hostname).
In this case, Beam now uses host/domain info from network settings-file.
- preferences window is now moved to front when a user tries to open it twice (instead of crashing, as before).
- recreating a mailfolder-cache now works.
- new prefs-flag that selects BeMail-compatible shortcuts.
- when a new node has been detected and seems to have zero size, we assume that an application is creating the mail-file directly inside the in-folder.
In this case, we snooze for a short amount of time and then proceed to read the file, which hopefully is now completely written. This is no complete solution, but I hope that this will increase compatibility with MailDaemonReplacement and other programs.
- fixed a couple of smaller redraw/layout issues.
2002-02-19, Beam 0.90 has been released:
- Beam finally went public, hooray!
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