www/update.yam.ch/updates/stable/2.8p1
VERSION: 2.8p1
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BUILDDATE: 07.07.2013
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URL: ppc-morphos http://downloads.sf.net/yam/YAM28p1-MorphOS.lha
URL: i386-aros http://downloads.sf.net/yam/YAM28p1-AROS-i386.lha
URL: ppc-aros http://downloads.sf.net/yam/YAM28p1-AROS-ppc.lha
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YAM - Version 2.8p1
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About YAM
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YAM (Yet Another Mailer) lets you send and receive electronic mail (e-mail)
over the Internet and maintain archives of messages in your computer via a
graphical user interface. The idea came to the original author (Marcel
Beck) back in 1995 when he first tried using e-mail. The programmes
available at the time were either powerful but complicated to configure, or
else used a too limiting user interface. The goal, therefore, was to
program a cross between AdMail and AirMail, with a few ideas coming from
Pegasus Mail.
While earlier versions of YAM were developed closed source, today's
versions are developed by an independent open source community. Since the
year 2000 a group of mixed developers maintain YAM and release new versions
from time to time. While these versions are all targeted for the Amiga
platform, versions of different AmigaOS incarnations are supplied. This
includes native PowerPC ports to modern Amiga platforms like AmigaOS4 or
MorphOS.
Before you start the installation
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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:
Jens Langner
Thore Boeckelmann
And here's a PARTIAL list of the changes in this version with respect to
the previous official 2.8 update:
- updated translations for czech, greek, swedish, french, spanish, italian,
turkish language.
- fixed an issue related to BetterString.mcc which cause YAM to crash.
- extended the ADDRLOAD command to take a second parameter OPEN/S to
immediately open then address book window after the address book file
has been loaded successfully.
- added a new option in the hidden section of the configuration. Setting the
option "OverrideFromAddress" to "Y" will add a recipient string object
below the identity chooser in the write window. The contents default to
the chosen identity's address but can be modified freely. This makes it
possible to use a different From: address than the one configured in the
identity while still using all other settings like the SMTP server.
- renamed the 'Bounce' mail functionality for redirecting emails to alternative
recipients to 'Redirect' as that better reflects the purpose of this
functionality and should not confuse users anymore. Also adapted the
functionality to add all well-known Resent-#? headers to redirected emails.
This should adapt YAM to be somehwat more RFC compliant. Furthermore, a
Resent-CC and Resent-BCC can now be specified. In addition, YAM will now
allow to bounce to multiple emails in one operation. That means, a user
can now select more than one mail in the mail listview and when a redirect
operation is performed YAM will redirect all of these mails in one run.
- fixed bug where hidden Cc, BCC or Reply-To string gadgets could have ended
up at wrong positions when hiding/showing them dynamically in the write
window.
- fixed a bug where 'new' mail was never changed to 'unread' status if it was
moved to a subfolder. Now the index of all folders carrying 'new' mail will
be loaded and the status adapted accordingly.
- fixed a problem where under certain setups the automatically chosen full
qualified domain name (FQDN) was unluckily chosen and thus mail sending being
rejected when using YAM. Now YAM should use a better mechanism and even let
you override the FQDN using a new hidden 'MachineFQDN' option.
- fixed a crash where it could have happened that YAM accessed an invalid
memory location when creating a new mail.
- added a new 'WRITEIDENTITY' ARexx command to let a script choose the user
identity to be used when composing a new mail via ARexx.
- fixed a bug where the signature settings of a folder got lost when updating
from YAM versions <= 2.7 to 2.8
- fixed a crash when entering certain text in the CC string gadget of a write
window.
- fixed some problems with the new Drafts folder managment where emails could
end up duplicated. In addition, the 'Hold' button has been renamed to 'Save
to Drafts' to better differentate between the operations.
- fixed a bug where the number of mails in the outgoing folder was not correctly
set when a mail was moved by mail filter operation.
- fixed a bug where the From: address was not properly restored when the hidden
"OverrideFromAddress" option had been used.
- fixed a bug where keeping the write window open for a while could suddenly
crash YAM.
- fixed some crashes related to virtual email display (e.g. opening .eml
attachments).
- fixed a bug in the mail header parsing routines where a header line starting
with a newline cause problems.
- fixed a memory trashing problem where toolbar images of different sizes cause
some memory leaks within TheButton.mcc.
- fixed a bug where resaving a mail in the drafts folder caused the mail
active/inactive state to get messed up.
- modified remote filters to be applied when getting the single message details.
This makes it possible to let the filters check all available information but
it also requires the user to wait until the details of all new mails have been
received. Otherwise it could have happened that some mails were not received
although they should be filtered out.
- fixed a crash bug when deleting a folder group.
- fixed some incorrect dimensions of certain theme images.
If you want to have a more detailed technical information on what was
actually changed, please have a look at the included 'ChangeLog' file.
You can also consult the official YAM homepage for more information on the
changes done with YAM 2.8p1 (e.g. see http://yam.ch/milestone/YAM%202.8p1)
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, etc. is currently missing. If you are a native speaker
of a language that YAM does not offer (anymore), then please contact us.
See http://yam.ch/wiki/Localization for more information.
- 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 with YAM 2.8+ we have switch to a pure online-based
documentation system people are welcome updating the online documentation
which can be found at http://docs.yam.ch/ and is based on a public wiki
engine.
- 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! :)
Source code
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Due to lack of time and motivation, Marcel Beck stopped working on YAM back
in 2000, but the sources were released under the GNU General Public License
at SourceForge.net. If you want to help developing this program further or
perhaps you are considering a port to a different operating system, please
consider joining the YAM Open Source team instead of doing it on your own.
Our home page is at http://yam.ch/ from which you can obtain all
necessary information to contact us. We want to hear from you!
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://yam.ch/wiki/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://yam.ch/ - Official Support Homepage
http://download.yam.ch/ - Direct path to the download page
http://docs.yam.ch/ - Online documentation system
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