YAM 2.4

To minimize download time, YAM 2.4 is distributed in five different LhA archives which must be unpacked into the same directory before installation.

• YAM24.lha – YAM 2.4 basic installation for 68020 processors or better, includes English manual
• YAM24cpu.lha – Diff for 68040 and 68060 processors
• YAM24mos.lha – MorphOS version, includes starter tool
• YAM24loc.lha – Foreign language support (catalogs and manuals)
• YAM24con.lha – Additional graphics, ARexx scripts, etc.

Changes:

• Fixed: no more Enforcer hits on exit (damato)
• Fixed: no more Enforcer hits when selecting an user other than the default (damato)
• Fixed: Enforcer hits when closing the Search window while a search was in progress (damato)
• Fixed: if SMTP AUTH failed, the response gotten from the server was never reported to the user, and the connection remained alive (damato)
• Fixed: if a host had 2 different IPs in the DNS and the first one was down, it would never try to connect to the second one and just threw an error message (damato)
• Fixed: aborting a mail transfer could throw Enforcer hits, and no QUIT command was sent (damato)
• Fixed: transmission of binary data containing NUL bytes could be mangled, typically when transmitting PDF documents (damato)
• Fixed: a POP3 server sending raw binary data could hang YAM completely if a NUL character (ASCII 0) was received (damato)
• Fixed: email body was sent with bare LFs, shamefully violating RFC2822 and making some pedantic SMTP servers (qmail) to scream (damato)
• Fixed: potential crash if the Edit window was opened from a Read window and the Read window was closed before clicking Send now/Send later/Hold (krille)
• Fixed: possible confusion while re-selecting multiple parts of a message (damato)
• Fixed: the appearance of the message status flags could get corrupted because of a too wide Address column (damato)
• Fixed: sorting by status works now as intended (damato)
• Fixed: updating the folder index didn't clear the mail listview, thus letting the user toy around with the list and break havoc (damato)
• Fixed: several problems with the handling of temporary files, using now an additional serial ID and a smarter access mechanism (damato)
• Fixed: several problems when trying to open an inexistant mail file, returning now a proper error message (damato)
• Fixed: a send error could make sent email to end up in the wrong folder (damato)
• Fixed: potential crash in the message handling because it forgot to close the output file on an error condition (damato)
• Fixed: temporary unpack files (XPK) weren't deleted when switching messages from within the Read window (damage)
• Fixed: temporary unpack files were deleted too early, making it impossible to e.g. display raw messages in compressed folders (damato)
• Fixed: the gauge in the mail transfer window would never reach 100% (damato)
• Fixed: enforced proper Read/Write window parameters when dealing with ARexx to avoid things going terribly wrong (damato)
• Fixed: ADDRDELETE would throw Enforcer hits if no alias was provided (damato)
• Fixed: ADDREDIT couldn't edit/create distribution lists without throwing Enforcer hits later (damato)
• Fixed: ADDREDIT would produce hits with bogus BIRTHDATE parameters (damato)
• Fixed: ADDRRESOLVE was utterly broken and crashed the system right away (damato)
• Fixed: GETSELECTED wouldn't initialize NUM.COUNT in empty folders (damato)
• Fixed: INFO SCREEN would return an empty string if YAM was iconified (damato)
• Fixed: MAILCHECK didn't set ONSERVER correctly (damato)
• Fixed: MAILINFO broke in 2.3p1 and would omit the folder name part in FILENAME if an INDEX was supplied (damato)
• Fixed: neither MAILREAD or MAILWRITE could really activate windows in the GUI (damato)
• Fixed: MAILWRITE accepted bad WINDOW values (damato)
• Fixed: Enforcer hits when filtering by message body or headers (damato)
• Fixed: Enforcer hits when replying or forwarding a message attached to another message (damato)
• Fixed: remote filters could trigger actions that were not supposed to (damato)
• Fixed: Enforcer hits when clicking the [Filter] button or selecting the address to send the reply to (damato)
• Fixed: Enforcer hit when using the "Edit" menu in the prefs window after the list of POP3 accounts had been enabled in the TCP/IP sheet (damato)
• Fixed: Enforcer hit when clicking the support URL <www.yam.ch> in the About window on startup (damato)
• Fixed: preselection didn't work at all if "Download new mail on startup" was enabled (damato)
• Fixed: no mail was downloaded automatically if "Download large messages" was disabled (damato)
• Fixed: it was possible to abruptly interrupt a mail transfer by using "Check version" (damato)
• Fixed: calling "Show last message" would also disrupt the current mail transfer and cause further calamities later on (damato)
• Fixed: the results in the Search window could get out of sync with the message list (damato)
• Fixed: even if "Display all texts" was disabled, some operations in the Read window could still trigger text parts to be displayed entirely (damato)
• Fixed: if the address book was set to have new senders automatically added, some operations in the Read window would trigger again the automatic addition (damato)
• Fixed: "Next/Previous message in thread" would fail most of the time; replaced the rudimentary algorithm this code was based on with a more advanced CRC32 checksum algorithm which in turn calls for an .index revision update - yup, this REQUIRES ALL INDICES TO BE UPDATED, but also wins you the possibility of sorting messages by the date they were sent or received, which has now been implemented for real (damato)
• Fixed: a gadget in the filter definition showed junk when switching to a remote filter and viceversa (damato)
• Fixed: the (localized) PGP error message generated "on the fly" for messages that couldn't be encrypted was partially truncated; the unencrypted part is now displayed as an attachment in the Read window as well (damato)
• Fixed: remembers again the last active message in a folder and jumps to this message if the folder is selected again (damato)
• Fixed: doesn't lose track anymore when Next/Previous message is selected in the Read window and an unrelated folder is currently opened (damato)
• Fixed: the address book listview won't be cleared anymore if the new address book on disk cannot be opened (damato)
• Fixed: variable signatures will also work now when forwarding or writing a new mail in a folder belonging to a mailing list (damato)
• Fixed: the title of the file requester for importing MIME viewers & types was not localized (damato)
• Fixed: the [Okay] button in the About window got lost on restart (damato)
• Fixed: the keyboard shortcut for "Security" in the address book works, now (krille)
• Fixed: double clicking mailto: links does something useful again; as an extra bonus, subject, CC and BCC fields are also correctly handled as in mailto:[email protected]?subject=test&cc=[email protected] , and two URLs can appear in the same line without triggering side effects (damato)
• Fixed: temporary files for attachments cancelled in the Write window were not deleted (damage)
• Fixed: couldn't display raw messages stored in PROGDIR:folder (damato)
• Fixed: will now take care of spaces in path names when calling MIME viewers (damato)
• Fixed: when dealing with subjects without a space after the [tag], i.e. "Re: [list]subject", the first character in the edited subject got lost (charlie)
• Fixed: hiccup when finding a "%" character in attachment filenames (damato)
• Fixed: the "group for new entries" in the address book configuration was never used (damato)
• Fixed: two codes were used in the logfile for different purposes (tactica)
• Fixed: the duplicated "shift right" menu shortcut in the Read window is now gone (tactica)
• Fixed: the SMTP port number was never saved to the configuration (damato)
• Changed: replaced TextEditor.mcc style routines in the Read window with a more intelligent flex environment to make highlighting more accurate and fix the crashes with some HTML mail (damato)
• Changed: rewritten all the elementary TCP/IP routines to use separate transfer buffers, which should speed up transfers over slow connections (damato)
• Changed: made the YAM_TZ environment variable redundant by using Locale to also keep track of half an hour offsets; as an added benefit, YAM no longer opens the variable for every single message in the folder whilst an index rescan is in progress, making updates up to 20% faster (damato)
• Changed: messages are now indexed in UTC instead of local time (damato)
• Changed: "Program startup" & "Program termination" macros are also executed on Restart (damato)
• Changed: will also honour the hidden JumpToNewMsg option wrt newly received messages (damato)
• Changed: if PGP is not found, it won't be used at all instead of putting up the annoying "PGP signature key is not correct" warning every time a PGP signed message is opened (krille)
• Changed: trying to import email from a file that doesn't contain any will now trigger an error message (damato)
• Changed: simplified the folder creation process (damato)
• Changed: creating a new filter will now automatically select the Name string gadget (damato)
• Changed: trying to load an apparently invalid address book will now put up a requester offering the user to load the file as a line separated list of names and email addresses rather than blindly loading whatever is thrown at it (damato)
• Changed: no longer truncates filenames to 32 characters when saving attachments (damato)
• Changed: commas within double quotes are now accepted as valid characters in recipient string gadgets (laursen)
• Changed: the MSGID stem in MAILINFO is now returned as an hexadecimal value (damato)
• Changed: CTRL-C will now break the application, while CTRL-D will restart it immediately (damato)
• Changed: dates in the mail listview and other areas are now displayed using Locale set...

YAM 2.3p1

After the release of YAM 2.3 there were some important posts about different bugs within this release that brought up the idea of a special fix release until the development of the new 2.4 release is finished.

This 2.3p1 fix release solves many different issues in the former 2.3 release. But as this is only a upgrade to 2.3 we decided to distribute it in a special upgrade archive. To install this update you need an already running 2.3 installation of YAM on your system as this will only ugrade the main executable of YAM.

If you never had any 2.x release of YAM running on your system we highly encourage you to first install the 2.3 release of YAM before you proceed to install this update release.

If you are unsure about installing this fix release and you have any other previous version of YAM installed, we highly encourage you to install it, because this version fixes one important security problem where it was possible to execute any command by simply receiving a mail with special escape sequences.

Changes:

• Fixed: MUI-APipe-YAM security issue when escape sequences are used in a mail header (damato)
• Fixed: Mailinglist reply problem when the mail had no Reply-To header (krille)
• Fixed: sorting of the address book list (krille)
• Fixed: crash when an address field contained an odd number of " or when the address part was not correctly enclosed in <> The problem that the entered address is truncated remains (krille)
• Fixed: Corrected 'Check version' date (laursen)
• Fixed: YAM now respects the "Iconified on startup" MUI setting correctly (laursen)
• Fixed: Problem with comments missing in the address book (laursen)
• Added: attachment name is now also recognized from the content-disposition header (krille)
• Changed: now YAM also accepts "(" and ")" in URLs according to RFC 1738 (krille)
• Changed: increased length to search for signatures (krille)
• Changed: Better lookin` 'Okay' button in about window (laursen)

YAM 2.3

To minimize download time, YAM 2.3 is distributed in five different LhA archives which must be unpacked into the same directory before installation.

• YAM23.lha – YAM 2.3 basic installation for 68020 processors or better, includes English manual
• YAM23cpu.lha – Executables optimized for 68040 and 68060 processors
• YAM23loc.lha – Foreign language support (catalogs and manuals)
• YAM23con.lha – Additional graphics, ARexx scripts, etc.
• YAM23mos.lha – MorphOS/PPC binaries

Changes:

• Fixed: RX "address 'YAM';info" without arguments caused Enforcer hits. (laursen)
• Fixed: creating new messages caused Enforcer hits. (laursen)
• Fixed: the MAILWRITE and MAILSEND commands would throw Enforcer hits if YAM was iconified and the external editor was set up to be launched always. (laursen)
• Fixed: %'s were used for formatting the taglines, resulting in a "_NULL POINTER_" mess. (laursen)
• Fixed: nasty bug when using the MAILWRITE command with the QUIET switch. (laursen)
• Fixed: message headers with non-terminated MIME-encoded text would throw Enforcer hits, e.g. during a folder rescan. (laursen)
• Fixed: the ASL requester opened by "Address Book/New/Portrait/Select" would use "Se_lect" as title (same string used twice). (laursen)
• Fixed: CheckPrinter() assumed printer on parallel port when interpreting printer.device status bits. (msbethke)
• Fixed: Enforcer hits when listing a PGP keyring with very long UID lines. (msbethke)
• Fixed: minor bugs in the address book code. (damato)
• Fixed: a nasty crash bug when loading corrupted indices. (laursen)
• Fixed: Enforcer hits when trying to spawn a second instance of YAM while the first one is starting up. (laursen)
• Fixed: Y2K bug in DateStamp2String() function. Now date requests to UNIXTIME should perform accurate. -> fixes the export e-mail function. (damato)
• Fixed: 'Folder/Check single account' menu is no longer trashed after clicking 'Use' in the configuration window. (laursen)
• Fixed: if the mail editor is invoked from the read window, this window will be updated as soon as the e-mail is edited and saved again. (krille)
• Fixed: Enforcer hit when doing search by status. (grille)
• Fixed: crashes/deadlocks if the TCP/IP connection gets lost (TCP/IP stack shutdown/offline, timeouts, ...). (joergs)
• Added: partial PGP multipart support. (msbethke)
• Added: "From:" address to folder options. (laursen)
• Added: "Reply-To:" address to the folder options. (laursen)
• Added: menu shortcuts in the main window are now localizable. (laursen)
• Added: SMTP AUTH support. (joergs)
• Added: external quote function to the Edit window and Config/Reply. (msbethke)
• Added: TYPE/N (internal format) to the STEM returned by the FOLDERINFO ARexx command. (laursen)
• Started improving the printing system. (msbethke)
• Added: warning when a mail to be sent lacks a subject. (krille)
• Added: rather rudimentary LaTeX printing support. (msbethke)
• Added: a requester appears on exit if the address book was modified and not saved. (krille)
• Added: the window listing the message parts sports a title now. (damato)
• Added: extended resolve support in address fields. (damato)
• Added: two hidden configuration items: AskJumpUnread and WarnSubject. (laursen)
• Added: "Ignore all" option when a bunch of e-mails is deleted and one of them makes a Disposition Notification warning to pop up. (laursen)
• Added: when pressing Shift-Right/Left in the read window, YAM will look if there is unread email in any folder after/before the current one (below/above in the folder list), offering the choice to continue reading there if appropriate. (krille)
• Added: signature selection to the mailing list support. A different signature for each mailing list can now be selected. (damato)
• Changed: replaced Listtree.mcc with NListtree.mcc by Carsten Scholling. (damato)
• Changed: the AppIcon now shows the number of unread messages in the incoming folder. (damato)
• Changed: library open errors will now be displayed in a requester no matter if MUI is or not available and, if possible, localized. (laursen)
• Changed: when changing the current folder, the selector will jump to the first unread e-mail from the bottom if reverse sorting is used as sort criteria in some column. (krille)
• Changed: NListview and NList.mcc will be used now in the attachments part of the write window. (damato)
• Changed: now uses the Locale timezone setting if available, overriding the GMT setting in the configuration. (laursen)
• MorphOS port: Emmanuel Lesueur and Nicholai Benalal.

YAM 2.2

To minimize download time, YAM 2.2 is distributed in four different LhA archives which must be unpacked into the same directory before installation.

• YAM22.lha – YAM 2.2 basic installation for 68020 processors or better, includes English manual
• YAM22cpu.lha – Executables optimized for 68040 and 68060 processors
• YAM22loc.lha – Foreign language support (catalogs and manuals)
• YAM22con.lha – Additional graphics, ARexx scripts, etc.

Changes:

• Fixed: Taglines with empty lines in them were only inserted up to the empty line
• Fixed: Size column in folder list wasn't updated when changing subject or cropping attachments
• Improved quote string recognition
• Added FOLDER parameter to FOLDERINFO command to simplify access to the folder statistics
• New script: MarkAsRead.yam marks messages from the current user as read
• Added Finnish locale