22.Feb.2010
YAM OpenSource Team, Jens Langner, Thore Böckelmann (ANF)
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E-Mail-Client: YAM 2.6
The YAM Open Source Team has published version 2.6 of the MUI-based eMail-program YAM. Under AmigaOS 4.1 now the new "Display Notifications" are used to inform on new mails. Additionally ports for different AROS-platforms (x86, PPC, x86_64) are available. The most important changes in YAM 2.6:
- 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!) :)
Users of older versions as YAM 2.5 should note that the Assign "YAM:" is no longer required and can be removed from the User-Startup. Additionally configuration and mail files of these older versions are no longer compatible and will be converted to the new format during the first launch. The authors recommend a backup of all the old data as well as to immeditately save the YAM-configuration after the upgrade.
The YAM-team is looking for helpers who want to support the team in reworking the documentation in different languages as well as in translating the program. If you want to thank the developers you can donate a little money here.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
[News message: 22. Feb. 2010, 16:19] [Comments: 0]
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