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- Short: Offline mail/news/... reader, main archive (required)
- Author: Ultima Thule Software (thor@hstud6.cs.uit.no)
- Uploader: Petter Nilsen (pettern@icenet.no)
- Type: comm/thor
-
- 970827
-
- - THOR -
-
- Release 2.5
-
- Copyright (C) 1993-1997 Ultima Thule Software,
- All Rights Reserved.
-
- THOR 2.5 is an advanced multi-format offline reader, supporting the
- QWK, Fido, UUCP, SOUP, Bluewave, Omen, ABBS, MBBS and Hippo (BBBS)
- message formats. It will also handle TCP-connections with NNTP, SMTP
- and POP3, with extensive MIME support.
-
- Changes from 2.4 to 2.5 pre-release 1:
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- THOR:
- - Will optionally detect and provide actions for http:, ftp:, news:
- and mailto: links in messages. Start you browser with a click,
- download a file with a click!
- If a ftp: link is not complete with a filename, a popdown menu will appear
- that lets you select to use an external program on the link. For this to
- happen, you must have configured a ftp client that will accept ftp: links
- on the commandline. AmiFTP supports this. (it must be configured, but you
- can still have Internal in the visual config on ftp:).
- On news:, you will have the option to start ConnectTHOR or subscribe
- to the group directly.
- - Added popdown menu instead of requesters when clicking on attachment
- icons.
- - Added support for external icons for the various filetypes
- in attachments. The icons should reside in "filestypes/" in the THOR
- dir. See included icons for examples. Normal, MagicWB and NewIcons are
- supported. If a filetype icon is a project icon, the default tool will replace
- Multiview in the popdown menu when clicking on an attachment icon.
- - Main THOR program now relies on ClassAct to work.
- - Visual Config, Kill windows and pack/purge window are in ClassAct
- - Thor will handle Cc: and add the selected addresses at the top of the
- message as Cc: lines.
- - Pack/purge window expanded to include a separate tab section that will
- list files attached to messages that were deleted in the purge. It also
- is 100% ClassAct now.
- - TRUE kills implemented, meaning a messages matching this type of kill
- will not be imported into the database.
- - MAKESIGNATURE added to the ARexx interface of THOR.
- - Double-clicking an entry in the user database will enter a message
- to that person.
- - THOR will now make sure attachments can be deleted, even if a
- datatype hold a lock on it, by freeing all inline pictures before
- deletion.
- - Multiselection possible in the event window on all but edit.
- - The datatype filetype will be in the Type: description
- on attachments.
- - The requester whether to delete attachments have "Delete All" and
- "Delete None" options.
- - Pre-processes % characters in the FromAddr or ReplyToAddr that could
- cause crashes when replying so this will not happen.
- - When getting a list of mail packets in the download dir fails, the systems
- list will still be shown.
- - Removed a few bugs when there is not enough memory to load the passive
- conferencelist and reduced the memory consumption.
- - Text attachments are shown inline automatically.
- - Added "Get Current User" to the User database window.
- - Fixed crashing bug when using attach without a listfont configured.
-
- ConnectTHOR:
- - 2 new arguments: BROWSENEWS (for entering the newsbrowser directly), and
- NEWSGROUP used with BROWSENEWS.
- - Fixed a CT crash when no stack is running (I hope).
- - Added a "flush log" menu item.
- - Fixed a memory leak.
-
- bbsreadrexx-handler:
- - UPDATEBRMESSAGE can now set and clear the read/superunread flags too.
-
- bbsread.library:
- - Length of paths for UnArchive() and Archive() has been doubled to 500
- characters
- - Fixed a possible problem when comparing kills when BRKILL_Private tag
- was used on a kill (missing break in a switch statement).
- - Forwarded messages will not be purged on pack/purge before the event
- has been executed and the events purged. MDF_REFERENCED is the private
- flag added to messages that should not be purged.
- - API change allows for creating a list of file attachments at pack/purge time,
- so they can be browsed later for copying, deletion etc. New tag
- PD_AttachmentList to PackDataFile() added for this purpose.
- - Fixed the long standing problem when packing a filedb with more than 32K
- number of files. The problem was that the hash key for each file was held in
- in a WORD and no checking was done when this could not fit the key. This has
- been changed to a UWORD (compatible with older filedbs still), and
- only 60K unique hash keys will be generated now.
- - WBRK_MarkDeleted can be set on a kill, which will really delete a message
- if it matches a kill. WriteBRMessage() will not write the message to the
- database if a match with this tag is found. NOTE: This introduces a slight
- API change in in what WriteBRMessage() returns. If possible, do not rely on
- this return value if it is anything else but 0, which means failure. -1 is
- returned on messages that are not added to the database due to a kill match
- on the above tag.
-
- Changes from 2.5 pre-release 1 to 2.5 final release:
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- - added grouping/sorting of messages in Show ALL mode too. Requires V5 of
- bbsread.library now.
- - Added a description field for kills, so the user can add a comment to each
- kill/emphasize.
- - When writing an event, the data about the event will be shown in the info bar
- at the bottom of the main window.
- - Visual Config adds an option to show pictures automatically inline or with the
- external viewer.
- - Somewhere in the past, I added new formatting codes for the reply/forward
- string, but forgot to document them. Here they are:
- %F - Sender first name
- %L - Sender last name
- - Option for always encoding mail as quoted-printable added to
- system->import/export settings.
- - Added support for APOP authentication on POP3 mail collection.
- - Sortmail trigger processing done on import now, with a very flexible
- command set. CfgSortmail.thor still needs to be run to set triggers up.
-
- + many bug fixes and improvements
-
- To install this upgrade, use the UpdateThor installer script.
-
- QUESTIONS?
- ~~~~~~~~~~
- There is a newsgroup for Thor with the name of alt.sys.amiga.thor. If
- the group is not available at your newsserver, ask for it by sending a
- mail to your system admin.
-
- Mailing Lists:
-
- The old THOR mailing list has be resurrected. To subscribe to this list,
- send a mail to majordomo@thule.no with "subscribe thor-ml <email address>"
- in the body.
-
- There is a mailing list for developers of programs and ARexx scripts
- related to THOR. To subscribe to this list, send a mail to
- majordomo@thule.no with "subscribe thor-dev <email address>" in the
- body. If you have no interest in making scripts or programs related
- to THOR, you do not need to join this mailing list.
-
- --
- Petter Nilsen
-
- EMail THOR Team: thor@thule.no
- WWW site: http://www.thule.no/
- EMail: pettern@thule.no
- IRC: Mitchman
-