Pine Release Notes

                                  Version 4.20
                            University of Washington

Pine(c) is the University of Washington's "Program for Internet News and
Email". It is intended to be an easy-to-use program for sending,
receiving, and filing Internet electronic mail messages and bulletin
board (Netnews) messages. There are versions that will run on many
different flavors of the Unix® operating system, as well as a version
with GUI amenities for 32-bit flavors of Microsoft Windows (95, 98, and
NT).

NEW IN PINE 4.20

Version 4.20 is an evolutionary release that introduces new functionality
and fixes numerous bugs. The list of changes includes:

 *  Color support
     +  general screen, titlebar, key labels, etc
     +  text associated with user-defined headers in message view
     +  quoted text in message view
 *  Role's notion of pattern can now be applied to other actions:
     +  index line color
     +  filtering
     +  scoring
 *  Role's notion of pattern enhanced to match:
     +  in all of message text
     +  by recipient
     +  by participant
     +  by current folder type (which may be a specific folder)
     +  by message score
 *  Email list participation headers recognized
 *  Role (#) command availability similar to normal Compose
 *  Feature enabling offer to delete all messages from newsgroups on exit
    (aka "catch up")
 *  Feature extending Take command to include Rule creation
 *  set of reply-indent/signature/role-template tokens expanded
 *  requirement for backslash quoting in signatures relaxed
 *  improved url/web-hostname recognition
 *  mailcap parameter substitution is disabled by default (hidden
    "enable-mailcap-param-substitution" feature restores it)
 *  improved Pico's sentence ending space preservation
 *  Help Text improvements
 *  Sizable performance improvement in Unix format mail handling
 *  Numerous bug fixes

Additional details on changes in this (and previous) versions of Pine may
be found at the following URL:

                  http://www.washington.edu/pine/changes.html

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GETTING HELP

  Online Help
      Every Pine screen and command has associated help text accesseible
      via the "?" key (or Ctrl-G in text-input contexts).

  Web Help
      The most current source of information about Pine, including new
      version availability, is the web page at

                        http://www.washington.edu/pine/

Frequently Asked Questions (and answers) may be found at the following
URL:

                      http://www.washington.edu/pine/faq/

Some topics of current interest include:

 *  Information on Folder Locking

 *  Information on Missing mail and the mbox driver

 *  Information on Folder Namespaces

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

General Pine configuration information can be found here.

Pine is also avilable for Windows 32-bit environments. More information
on PC-Pine can be found here.

Pine was developed by the Office of Computing & Communications at the
University of Washington in Seattle. A more complete list of principal
players and key contributors can be found on the credits Web page at

                     http://www.washington.edu/pine/credits

Pine and Pico are trademarks of the University of Washington.

Pine, Pico and Pilot Copyright 1989-1999 University of Washington

Additional legal notices can be found here or at the web URL:

                      http://www.washington.edu/pine/legal