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`05.Apr.2019` MorphZone (Forum)	MorphOS: E-mail client Iris, beta version 54 "Iris" is supposed to become the standard mail program for MorphOS. It supports IMAP and can read and create HTML mails. The program requires MorphOS 3.10. You can give feedback to the author using the corresponding discussion on MorphZone. Changes of beta version 54: Features: Improvements in the email editor; added default font (can be changed in settings) Connected servers will periodically poll for new messages Rewritten connection handling to improve performance and fix connection issues over time Bugfixes: Switching between several displayable email compontents only worked once per component due to a bug in tmp file lookup Fixed an issue related to saving attachments from an email open in a separate window after the active folder has changed in the main window Improved server disconnection handling Fixed a crash in vmime related to IMAP folder access Unread messages count could sometimes be negative due to an overflow Fixed a long-standing reconnection problem where internal exception routing would skip over the actual reconnection routine Fixed an OAuth2 issue which caused servers to reject authentication if they weren't used for a long time (days) so that the refresh token expired - this delegates login back to the web browser as required by OAuth2 Worked around an imap.wp.pl issue where the server returns messages in a random order instead of sorting them by uid Fixed a Sent folder refresh issue after sending an email Fixed a wrong UID count in folder issue causing server commands to fail after emptying a folder (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 05. Apr. 2019, 09:51] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Apr.2019`	Tutorial: Using a Linux box as a Proxy for SSL connections While AmiSSL 4 makes a modern version of SSL available for AmigaOS 3, software that supports it is still hard to find. And given its slow CPU, an Amiga is barely able to decode modern SSL cyphers anyway. amiga-news.de reader 'Cego' solved this problem by using a PC running Linux - you could also use a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian - as a proxy: In this scenario the Amiga is sending all of its HTTP request to the Linux box, which handles all communication with the Internet. Since the connection between the Amiga and the Linux box is never encrypted, the ancient Commodore computer is no longer burdened with encrypting and decrypting packages and its user doesn't have to worry about protocol compatability or certificates. Requirements To get started, we need to have the following things available: a computer running Linux (e.g. Debian, Raspbian) and an account with Root privileges sslstrip for Linux the IP address of the Linux box. This can be determined by entering hostname -I in a terminal IBrowse 1. activate IP forwarding First we have to activate IP forwarding on the Linux box, by entering the following in a terminal: echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward 2. install and activate SSLStrip Now we have to install sslstrip by invoking the following command with Root privileges: apt-get install sslstrip Then we start the program from the terminal: sslstrip 3. configure IBrowse's proxy settings Now we run IBrowse on the Amiga and tell it to use a proxy by enabling it in Preferences -> Network -> Proxy. Make sure you configure a proxy for "HTTP" (not "HTTPS") and enter the IP address of the Linux box here. sslstrip is using port 10000 by default, so that's what we need to enter here. How it works As far as IBrowse is concerned, the entire Internet is now available without encryption. Should a website enforce an SSL connection, the Linux proxy will take care of that and remove any encryption before forwarding the content to the Amiga - which frees the latter from the ressource-heavy process of decryption. Thanks to IBrowse's "URL Prefs" functionality, you could selectively enable or disable the use of the proxy for certain sites, but it's just as convenient to simply enable/disable the proxy using the Preferences -> Proxy menu or via the global configuration. (cg) (Translation: cg) [News message: 03. Apr. 2019, 21:48] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Apr.2019`	Canceled game project: Street-Fighter-2 clone "World Warrior" "World Warrior" was the attempt of a programmer to overcome his disappointment about the moderate quality of the Amiga port of "Street Fighter 2". In his blog the author described how the project started and explained some of his decisions regarding the game design. Besides, an unfinished version is available for download. The auhor remarked: "The option screen doesn't work and you can only play against another human player...and the round goes on forever as there's no health system." (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 01. Apr. 2019, 23:36] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Apr.2019`	Source codes of VirusExecutor, ABBS and PlayItPro released With permission of the author Jan Erik Olausen, "4play" has released the source codes of VirusExecutor, the mailbox software ABBS and of the 8SVX sample players PlayItPro at Github. It is also planned to release the sources of VirusZ V2. (cg) (Translation: dr) [News message: 01. Apr. 2019, 23:27] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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