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From: mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU (Mark Crispin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: MailManager
Message-ID: <10578@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 5 Nov 90 03:44:31 GMT
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Organization: Mendou Zaibatsu, Tomobiki-Cho, Butsumetsu-Shi
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A major new release of MailManager (and the rest of the IMAP software
package) will be made available sometime between now and the end of
the year.

The major functional change in this new version is support for file
attachments using the encoding scheme described in RFC-1154.  You can
now mail binary or other files other than pure 7bit text -- e.g. Frame
documents, RTF files, InterfaceBuilder NIB files, executables(!).

This new version also has some extensive internal changes, including a
rewrite to the /usr/spool/mail/$USER file reading logic to work around
a serious NeXT NFS bug which causes damage to NFS-mounted mail files
(basically, you get nulls instead of data when new mail comes in --
details on request).

A beta test version of the new MailManager only is available for FTP
as imap/MailManager.new on FTPHOST.CAC.WASHINGTON.EDU.  Although this
version is what I am presently running on my machine and is believed
to be working and bug-free, I must emphasize that it is beta test and
not yet formally blessed for distribution or use in our community.

Along with this new release will be a new release of IMAPware,
including support for attachments in the C-client and POP2/POP3
servers that can act as IMAP clients -- thus allowing the use of POP
clients with IMAP servers using these servers as POP/IMAP converters.
The release is presently awaiting final testing of the beta test
MailManager and the completion of a new IMAP server which supports
attachments.

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