Pine Release Notes

                                 Version 4.21
                            University of Washington

Pine(R) 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(R) operating system, as well as a version
with GUI amenities for 32-bit flavors of Microsoft Windows (95, 98, and
NT).

NEW IN PINE 4.21

Version 4.21 is mainly intended to fix bugs introduced in previous
versions.

Bugs that have been addressed in this release include:

 *  'N' flag not preserved across sessions
 *  'N' flag not cleared when messages containing non-text pieces viewed
 *  Sort failure using non-UW IMAP servers
 *  Linux port: failure to recognize resized display
 *  Problems with quoted /user= argument in smtp-server config
 *  Transient (e.g., mistyped password) authentication failures not
    reported
 *  Rare cases of deleted header lines reappearing after ^X in Composer
 *  Customized headers Bcc, To, Cc and Lcc not shown when posting news
 *  Problem with role pattern vs. color patterns in a file
 *  Problem with color display vs. single line scrolling
 *  Last line of one-page message not displayed in rare cases
 *  Text in Reply/Forward of encapsulated multipart/alternative and
    signed missing
 *  Failure to recognize list management headers in sorted folder
 *  Attachments sometimes marked for deletion when scoring in use
 *  Delayed notification of messages filtered from Inbox to current
    folder
 *  WhereIs to start or end of Folder List screen didn't
 *  PC-Pine crash selecting text from secondary window
 *  PC-Pine instances of "FOLDER CLOSED DUE TO ACCESS ERROR"

General improvements include:

 *  Filter performance and interface tuning:
     +  User-Interface changes to avoid accidental deletion of mail
     +  Action Folders local to PC-Pine no longer require
        double-backslashes
     +  Improved expunge performance with filters enabled
 *  NNTP performance improvements in MESSAGE INDEX screen
 *  Role Command (#) improvements
 *  Improved display of addresses containing comma in personal name
 *  Numerous Text/HTML parser improvements
 *  Continued help text improvements

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