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2 | * Release Notes: SquirrelMail 1.2.5 * |
3 | * The "Welcome to the Teams" Release * |
4 | * 22 February 2002 * |
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5 | *****************************************************************/ |
6 | |
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7 | In this edition of SquirrelMail Release Notes: |
8 | * All about this Release!!! |
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9 | * Reporting my favorite SquirrelMail 1.2 bug |
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10 | * Important Note about PHP 4.1.0 |
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11 | * About our Release Aliases |
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12 | |
13 | All about this Release!!! |
14 | ========================= |
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15 | |
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16 | The 1.2 series is continuing to get better and more featured. The |
17 | latest added features are: |
18 | |
19 | * MDN Support - You can send and request delivery & read receipts. |
20 | * Enhanced Search functions - search multiple folders at once, |
21 | search history |
22 | * And another pileful of fixes and omtimisations |
23 | |
24 | See the Changelog file for details. |
25 | |
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26 | Being one of the most popular webmail clients, the developers of |
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27 | SquirrelMail feel a huge desire and responsibility to continue push |
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28 | the envelope and make SquirrelMail the best it can possibly be. You |
29 | will not be disappointed with this release, as it is by far the most |
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30 | feature rich, and yet it is still the same sleek and unbloated and |
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31 | cuddly webmail application that we have all grown to love. Here is |
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32 | an incomplete list of new features and enhancements since the last |
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33 | stable release. |
34 | |
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35 | * Collapsible Folders - The folder list can be collapsed at any |
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36 | parent folder. This makes folder lists with large |
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37 | hierarchical structures much easier to manage and navigate. |
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38 | * The Paginator! - This enables quick access to any page in the |
39 | message list by simply choosing the page number to view |
40 | rather than tediously clicking "next" 50 times. |
41 | * Hundreds of UI tweaks - The user interface has been given a |
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42 | face-lift. The HTML has been largely overhauled, and while |
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43 | it still has the same general feel, it has been made more |
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44 | intuitive. |
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45 | * Drafts - It is now possible to compose a message and save it to |
46 | be sent at a later date with the drafts option. |
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47 | * New Options Page - The options page has been completely |
48 | rewritten for several reasons, the main of which was to |
49 | allow seamless integration of plugin options and to |
50 | provide uniformity throughout the entire section. |
51 | * Multiple Identities - It is now possible to create different |
52 | identities (home, work, school) that can be chosen upon |
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53 | sending. Each identity can have its own email address, |
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54 | full name, and signature. |
55 | * Reply Citations - Different types of citations are now possible |
56 | when replying to messages. |
57 | * Better Attachment Handling - The plugin, attachment_common, has |
58 | been fully integrated into the core of SquirrelMail. This |
59 | allows inline viewing of several different types of |
60 | attachments. |
61 | * Integration of Several Plugins - The following plugins have been |
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62 | put directly into the core. As a result, be sure not to |
63 | install these as plugins, as the result may be (at best) |
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64 | unpredictable: attachment_common, paginator, priority, |
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65 | printer_friendly, sqclock, xmailer. |
66 | * Improved support for newer versions of PHP. Note that you may |
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67 | have trouble if you are running PHP version 4.0.100 |
68 | (commonly distributed with Debian 3.0). |
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69 | * Ability to mark messages as read and unread from the message listing. |
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70 | * Alternating Colors - The message list now alternates row colors |
71 | by default. This presents a much cleaner and easier to |
72 | read interface to the user. |
73 | |
74 | Aside from these obvious front end features, there are hundreds of |
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75 | bugs that have been fixed, and much of the code has been optimized |
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76 | and/or rewritten. This stable release is far superior in all |
77 | aspects to all previous versions of SquirrelMail. |
78 | |
79 | Home Page: http://www.squirrelmail.org/ |
80 | Download: http://www.squirrelmail.org/download.php |
81 | ScreenShots: http://www.squirrelmail.org/screenshots.php |
82 | |
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83 | |
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84 | Reporting my favorite SquirrelMail 1.2 bug |
85 | ========================================== |
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86 | |
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87 | Of course, in the words of Linus Torvalds, this release is officially |
88 | certified to be Bug-Free (tm). |
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89 | |
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90 | However, if for some reason some bugs manage to find their way to the |
91 | surface, please report them at once (after all, they ARE uncertified |
92 | bugs!!!) The PROPER place to report these bugs is the SquirrelMail Bug |
93 | Tracker. |
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94 | |
95 | http://www.squirrelmail.org/bugs |
96 | |
97 | Thank you for your cooperation in that issue. That helps us to make |
98 | sure that nothing slips through the cracks. Also, it would help if |
99 | people would check existing tracker items for a bug before reporting |
100 | it again. This would help to eliminate duplicate reports, and |
101 | increase the time we can spend CODING by DECREASING the time we |
102 | spend sorting through bug reports. And remember, check not only OPEN |
103 | bug reports, but also closed ones as a bug that you report MAY have |
104 | been fixed in CVS already. |
105 | |
106 | |
107 | Important Note about PHP 4.1.0 |
108 | ============================== |
109 | |
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110 | Finally, we have managed to make *this* SquirrelMail release cooperate |
111 | nicely with the new PHP 4.1 release. As opposed to 1.2.4 and before, |
112 | which was less good friends with PHP 4.1. |
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113 | |
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114 | So: "Yes! It works" |
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115 | |
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116 | About our Release Aliases - by Wouter Teepe |
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117 | ========================= |
118 | |
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119 | Back with the release of 1.2.0, back when Christmas was recent, and |
120 | not the Olympics, there was this vision of structurgin the |
121 | SquirrelMail community into "Teams", all doing their own thing. |
122 | |
123 | Finally, the teams have really kicked off. :-) |
124 | |
125 | And, I would like to welcome all our new community members, being both |
126 | YOU, the eventful users of SquirrelMail, as well as Simon Dick, Jason |
127 | Munro, Pete Palmer and Chris Hills who have became team leads, as |
128 | well as Marc Groot Koerkamp and Thijs Kinkhorst (both just by incident |
129 | inhabitants of the same country as me :-)) who have recently joined |
130 | SquirrelMail and have made worthy contributions. |
131 | |
132 | Welcome to the SquirrelMail teams. |
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133 | |
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134 | (And now...get the Great Rewrite geared up) |
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135 | |
136 | See http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/SquirrelRelease for more details. |
137 | |
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138 | Happy SquirrelMailing! |
139 | - The SquirrelMail Project Team |