Announcement message

2000-08-22  Christopher James Lahey  <clahey@helixcode.com>

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+Hello,
+
+In honor of last week's conference and expo: a new development snapshot
+release of the Evolution groupware suite (0.4.1, code name "aLeWifE") is
+out.
+
+Evolution is the GNOME mailer, calendar, and addressbook application.
+
+* Availability
+
+        You can get the Evolution 0.4.1 tarball here:
+
+        ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/unstable/sources/evolution
+
+        Evolution also requires the latest versions of GtkHTML
+	(0.6.1), Bonobo (0.18), OAF (0.5.1), GNOME VFS (0.3.1), GConf
+	(0.8), libunicode (0.4), GNOME Print (0.20) and ORBit (0.5.3).
+
+        ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/unstable/sources/gtkhtml
+        ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/unstable/sources/bonobo
+        ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/unstable/sources/oaf
+        ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/unstable/sources/gnome-vfs
+        ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/unstable/sources/GConf
+        ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/unstable/sources/libunicode
+        ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/sources/gnome-print
+        ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/sources/ORBit
+
+	You can also get Evolution 0.4.1 for Redhat through Helix
+	Update, or Evolution 0.4.1 for debian through the Helix GNOME
+	debian distribution.  Support for other distributions will be
+	coming later this week.
+
+* Changes since version 0.3
+
+	Shell:
+
+	  - Added interfaces to display messages and a progress bar when the
+	    component is busy.  (Ettore)
+
+	  - Changed the shell BonoboUIHandler code to allow placing menu items
+	    such as "Print" in the right places.  (Ettore)
+
+	  - Added code to check if an existing `~/evolution' directory
+	    actually has the content we expect and, if not, complain to the
+	    user.  (Dan)
+
+	  - Fixed some Bonobo-related refcounting problems.  (Michael Meeks)
+
+	  - Removed the GConf dependency.  (JP)
+
+	  - Improved the API for the folder selection dialog.  (Ettore)
+
+	  - Memory leak fixes.  (Peter)
+
+	Calendar:
+
+	  The calendar is in the middle of major rewrite. Evolution 0.4.1
+	  ships with essentially the same calendar component as 0.3 did.
+
+	Addressbook:
+
+	  - More work on the Palm Pilot conduits.  (Chris Toshok)
+
+	  - Fixed some LDAP-related crashes.  (Chris Toshok)
+
+	  - Added support for displaying embedded vCards through a Bonobo
+	    component.  (Chris Lahey)
+
+	  - Added support for generic fields.  (Chris Lahey)
+
+	  - Fixed the navigation order for the Tab key in the contact editor
+	    window.  (Chris Lahey)
+
+	  - Fixed some Bonobo-related bugs and crashes.  (Chris Lahey, Michael
+	    Meeks)
+
+	  - Only display entries that have an email address in the address
+	    selector dialog.  (Chris Lahey)
+
+	  - Added an utility program to import vCards from Gnomecard.  (Chris
+	    Lahey)
+
+	Mailer:
+
+	 Generic
+
+	  - Long mailer operations (such as fetching new mail) now run
+	    asynchronously rather than blocking the UI. This involved
+	    a major rewrite of much of the Camel and mailer code.  (Peter)
+
+	  - GPG/PGP message decryption support (Nathan Thompson-Amato, Dan)
+
+	  - Unfinished messages in the composer can be saved to the "Drafts"
+	    folder and finished later.  (Jeff)
+
+	  - Double-clicking on a message in the message view now opens it in a
+	    separate window.  (Jeff)
+
+	  - vCards attached to messages now bring up a minicard view with a
+	    button to add the vCard to the addressbook (Chris Lahey, Dan)
+
+	  - Inline uuencoded/binhexed "attachment" support (Dan)
+
+	  - "Mark All Messages Seen" command.  (Cody Russell)
+
+	 Filters / VFolders
+
+	  - Major filter/vfolder dialog rewrite (Michael Zucchi) VFolders can
+	    now search any (searchable) folder, not just Inbox.
+
+	  - Auto-filter/auto-vfolder code (right click on a message in the
+	    list and pick one of the options at the bottom of the menu to
+	    create a filter/vfolder rule for similar messages).  (Michael)
+
+	  - You can now set the color of messages in the message list, based
+	    on filter rules.  (Local stores can also now store arbitrary user
+	    flags, although there is not yet UI code to set/view them.)
+	    (Michael)
+
+	  - Added "Save" button to the quicksearch bar to save a search as a
+	    vfolder.  (Michael)
+
+	 Configuration
+
+	  - Major mail config dialog rewrite (JP).
+
+	  - The mailer now remembers your threaded/unthreaded message view
+	    setting between sessions.  (Jeremy Wise).
+
+	  - Support for multiple identities (JP, Jeff), sources (JP, Peter), and
+	    IMAP servers (JP, Dan)
+
+	 Providers
+
+	  - You can now leave POP mail on the server. (This will [currently]
+	    only work right with POP servers that support the UIDL command.
+	    On other servers, it will never download some messages unless you
+	    never delete mail.)
+
+	  - There is now an MH-like local store available, and code to convert
+	    a folder from one type to the other.  (Michael)
+
+	  - The mbox provider now writes out "From " lines that are more
+	    compatible with other mailers (like Mutt) that are picky about
+	    their exact format.  (Michael)
+
+	  - The IMAP provider now supports searching (Jeff). Also various
+	    other speed/efficiency/robustness improvements (Jeff), and support
+	    for old IMAP4 servers as well as IMAP4rev1 (Jon K Hellan).
+
+* Mailing lists
+
+        You can subscribe to the Evolution developers list or the
+        Evolution users list by going to the Evolution home page on
+        http://www.helixcode.com/apps/evolution.php3
+
+Please note that this is still software in development and should not
+be used for production work.  We appreciate testers and contributors,
+but please remember that Evolution will still be buggy, incomplete,
+and temperamental.
+
+Thanks to the many people who have sent in suggestions and fixes.
+
+(And of course, this announcement was sent with Evolution. :-))
+
+Enjoy,
+  The Evolution team.
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