www/update.yam.ch/updates/stable/2.6
VERSION: 2.6
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BUILDDATE: 21.02.2010
URL: ppc-amigaos http://downloads.sf.net/yam/YAM26-AmigaOS4.lha
URL: m68k-amigaos http://downloads.sf.net/yam/YAM26-AmigaOS3.lha
URL: ppc-morphos http://downloads.sf.net/yam/YAM26-MorphOS.lha
URL: i386-aros http://downloads.sf.net/yam/YAM26-AROS-i386.lha
URL: ppc-aros http://downloads.sf.net/yam/YAM26-AROS-ppc.lha
URL: x86_64-aros http://downloads.sf.net/yam/YAM26-AROS-x86_64.lha
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YAM - Final Stable 2.6 Version
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The YAM (Yet Another Mailer) open source development team is pleased to
announce the immediate release of its stable 2.6 version. After two
years of constant, restless development, the 2.6 version is the currently
most stable and most advanced version of the famous Amiga e-mail suite.
Before you start the installation
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In case you have still YAM 2.4 or a previous version running and you want
to upgrade to 2.6 you have to note that YAM 2.5+ not only uses newer
configuration files, the files used to store separate emails are named
differently as well. Therefore, before you start the installation script
to overwrite your existing installation, it's strongly recommended that
you create a backup of your old YAM installation, including all folders and
configuration files. Afterwards you can install the update into your old
YAM directory if you wish. On start-up, YAM 2.5+ will automatically
convert your old configuration files to the new 2.5+ format, and after
being started, YAM will rename your old emails as necessary, always
under your control. It is also recommended that you re-save your
configuration as soon as possible in order to update your .config file
to the new format, which will reveal all the new options available.
In addition, please note that since YAM 2.5 no YAM: assign is required
anymore. That means, you may even install it in a new location and start it
right away from there without having to touch your old installation.
Afterwards you may manually import the mails from your old installation.
What's new
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Here's a list (in alphabetical order) of the brave developers who have
contributed to this release since the last official one:
Alexey Ivanov
David Rey
Guenther Nikl
Jens Langner
Joerg Strohmayer
Matthias Rustler
Olaf Barthel
Thore Boeckelmann
And here's a PARTIAL list of the changes in this version with respect to
the previous official update:
- updated translations for czech, french, german, greek, italian and swedish
language.
- updated default theme images by Martin 'Mason' Merz.
- added import and export functions for alien address books (i.e. XML files
as used by SimpleMail).
- AmigaOS4.1's new notification system will can used to inform the user about
new received mails.
- improved handling of header lines in general and especially malformed header
lines by certain Microsoft software.
- improved download and export speed of mails by optimizing the amount of data
shown on the screen. Overall the speed increased about 200%.
- improved the spam handling by treating the user's address book as a white
list.
- rewritten RFC2047 and RFC2822 routines to match the current RFC
recommendations.
- individual character sets can now be configured for reading and writing mails
instead of having one character set for all actions.
- improved ARexx command handling and extended command set.
- all error messages which occured during a mail transfer now include the
account name to make it easier to spot the faulty account in case a user has
more than one account at the same provider.
- mail attachments are displayed as a scrollable virtual group to be able to
show an unlimited number of files.
- all balance object use the new NBalance.mcc class which supports custom
mouse pointers.
- foreign characters with a mail may be converted to either "?" or similar look
alike characters.
- reduced overall stack usage by using dynamically allocated memory when needed.
- the text font and style can be configured independently for reading and
writing mails .
- the spam training data can be optimized to keep the data base small by removing
very rarely used word.
- made the date scanning of birthdays locale aware.
- added various AROS versions (i386, ppc, x86_64).
- added NOSPLASHWINDOW tooltype to start/quit YAM silently.
- on AmigaOS4.1 the new URL: device will be preferred over openurl.library to
invoke a browser.
- lots of other improvement we don't remember right now (keep in mind:
more than 2 years of development was put into YAM 2.6!) :)
If you want to have a more detailed technical information on what was
actually changed, please have a look at the included 'ChangeLog' file.
What is still missing?
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- lots of translators! YAM 2.4 featured lots of different languages, but
due to the large amount of changed texts these catalogs are completely
outdated. Especially support for such common languages as Danish,
Finnish, Spanish, etc. is currently missing. If you are a native speaker
of a language that YAM does not offer (anymore), then please contact us.
- lots of documentation! As with the translation, the documentation largely
lags behind. Again, if you are a native speaker (even for English) and if
you are interested in updating/writing YAM's documentation then please
contact us.
- now that YAM 2.5+ comes with a new themes management, users are free to
create own themes in a fashion that allow them to exchange them with
other users. So go and create your own themes and submit them via
AmiNET&Co! :)
Donations
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If you like the development of YAM and you want to give our open source
developers an additional motivation to continue to update YAM in future or
if you simply want to say "Thanks", the YAM project accepts money donations
via PayPal. All the donations during a release cycle are collected and
divided by considering the activity of each developer during the time the
development lasted. This way we hope to attract more developers in future,
which in turn should give you a new version more quickly.
http://www.yam.ch/Development/Donations
So in case you want to support our efforts to develop a modern up2date
e-mail client for modern AmigaOS-based systems, please consult the above
URL for more information on how to donate to us.
Online resources
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As YAM is an open source development effort, we have several online
resources cover your daily YAM needs:
http://www.yam.ch/ - Official Support Homepage
http://download.yam.ch/ - Direct path to the download page
http://faq.yam.ch/ - Online Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
http://bugs.yam.ch/ - Bugtracker and Feature Requests
http://forum.yam.ch/ - Web-based online forum
For Developers:
http://nightly.yam.ch/ - Access to automatic nightly developer
snapshots
http://svn.yam.ch/ - Web-based source code SVN access
http://stats.yam.ch/ - Daily updated development statistics