-Being one of the most popular webmail clients, the developers of
-SquirrelMail feel a huge desire and responsiblity to continue push
-the envelope and make SquirrelMail the best it can possibly be. You
-will not be disappointed with this release, as it is by far the most
-feature rich, and yet it is still the same sleak and unbloated and
-cuddly webmail application that we have all grown to love. Here is
-an uncomplete list of new features and enhancements since the last
-stable release.
-
- * Collapsable Folders - The folder list can be collapsed at any
- parent folder. This makes folder lists with large
- heirarchital structures much easier to manage and navigate.
- * The Paginator! - This enables quick access to any page in the
- message list by simply choosing the page number to view
- rather than tediously clicking "next" 50 times.
- * Hundreds of UI tweaks - The user interface has been given a
- facelift. The HTML has been largely overhauled, and while
- it still has the same general feel, it has been made more
- intuative.
- * Drafts - It is now possible to compose a message and save it to
- be sent at a later date with the drafts option.
- * New Options Page - The options page has been completely
- rewritten for several reasons, the main of which was to
- allow seamless integration of plugin options and to
- provide uniformity throughout the entire section.
- * Multiple Identities - It is now possible to create different
- identities (home, work, school) that can be chosen upon
- sending. Each identity can have its own email address,
- full name, and signature.
- * Reply Citations - Different types of citations are now possible
- when replying to messages.
- * Better Attachment Handling - The plugin, attachment_common, has
- been fully integrated into the core of SquirrelMail. This
- allows inline viewing of several different types of
- attachments.
- * Integration of Several Plugins - The following plugins have been
- put directly into the core. As a result, be sure not to
- install these as plugins, as the result may be (at best)
- unpredictable: attachment_common, paginator, priority
- printer_friendly, sqclock, xmailer.
- * Improved support for newer versions of PHP. Note that you may
- have trouble if you are running PHP version 4.0.100
- (commonly distributed with Debian 3.0).
- * Ablity to mark messages as read and unread from the message listing.
- * Alternating Colors - The message list now alternates row colors
- by default. This presents a much cleaner and easier to
- read interface to the user.
-
-Aside from these obvious front end features, there are hundreds of
-bugs that have been fixed, and much of the code has been optomized
-and/or rewritten. This stable release is far superior in all
-aspects to all previous versions of SquirrelMail.
-
- Home Page: http://www.squirrelmail.org/
- Download: http://www.squirrelmail.org/download.php
- ScreenShots: http://www.squirrelmail.org/screenshots.php
-
-
-Reporting my favorite SquirrelMail 1.2.0 bug
-============================================
-
-Of course, in the words of Linus Torvalds, this release is
-officially certified to be Bug-Free (tm).
-
-However, if for some reason some bugs manage to find their way to
-the surface, please report them at once (after all, they ARE
-uncertified bugs!!!) The PROPER place to report these bugs is the
-SquirrelMail Bug Tracker.
+This is the second and hopefully last Release Candidate (RC) for the
+1.4.x stable series. Please note that this release is not yet labeled
+STABLE officially.
+
+It is labeled RC 2a because RC 2 was released but pulled back soon
+after because a serious bug was found that needed to be fixed. Thanks
+to Jason Munro for discovering this bug.
+
+However, we've been running this on a number of systems and a variety
+of configs and we think it's worthy of the "stable"-title. Before we
+can call it stable we want to test it on as many systems as possible
+to iron out the last issues.
+
+In response to RC1, quite some issues were reported AND fixed! We now
+hope that SquirrelMail is really ready to be called STABLE. We need you
+to verify that this is true!
+
+So download it! Install it, and try to break it! We are hungry for any
+bug report you send. Even the smallest issue deserves to be fixed.
+
+A note on PHP 4.3.x
+===================
+
+While the developers realize that PHP 4.3.x is the "latest and greatest"
+version of PHP to be available, SquirrelMail has not been extensively
+tested with it. There may be potential session issues with PHP 4.3.x,
+and PHP by default has a session warning which will need to be disabled
+if you wish to use it with SquirrelMail.
+
+Put simply: The SquirrelMail team does not recommend the use of
+PHP 4.3.x with SquirrelMail at this time.
+
+SquirrelMail will put a large ugly warning about the use of PHP 4.3.x on
+the login screen unless you add "$shootMyFootOff = true;" to
+config/config_local.php, or downgrade PHP.
+
+Major updates
+==============
+
+The 1.4.0 series (as a result of 1.3 devel series) brings:
+
+* A complete rewrite of the way we send mail (Deliver-class),
+ and of the way we parse mail (MIME-bodystructure parsing).
+ This makes SquirrelMail more reliable and more efficient
+ at the same time!
+* Support for IMAP UID which makes SquirrelMail more reliable.
+* Optimizations to code and the number of IMAP calls.
+* Support for a wider range of authentication mechanisms.
+* Lots of bugfixes and a couple of UI-tweaks.
+
+
+A note on plugins
+=================
+
+There have been major plugin architecture improvements. Lots of plugins
+have not yet been adapted to this. Plugins which are distributed with
+this release (eg. in the same .tar.gz file) should work. Plugins not
+distributed with this plugin most probably WILL NOT WORK.
+
+So if you have ANY problem at all, first try turning off all plugins.
+
+
+A note on your configuration
+============================
+
+For a whole bunch of reasons, it is MANDATORY that you run conf.pl
+(and then save your configuration) from the config/ directory before
+using this release.
+
+If you have problems with UID support, please do these 2 things:
+
+1) For our comfort and the prosperity of SquirrelMail, send a bug
+ report with this information:
+ * IMAP server type + version
+ * Whether you use server-side sorting
+ * Whether you use thread sorting
+ * The value of "sort" (as in conf.pl)
+ Bugs can be submitted at: http://www.squirrelmail.org/bugs
+
+2) For your own pleasure and comfort:
+ Turn off UID support in conf.pl, so you can continue to use 1.4.0
+ while the developers look at your report.
+
+
+Reporting my favorite SquirrelMail 1.4 bug
+==========================================
+
+This RC is meant to catch the last bugs. So we need you to submit
+any bug you come across! Also, please mention that the bug is in
+this 1.4.0 RC2 release.
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