Re: [ANNOUNCE] balsa-1.2.pre2 release.

[John Merryweather Cooper <jmcoopr webmail bmi net>]

On 2001.08.23 08:31 Asim Zuberi wrote:
> 
> Pawel:
> 
> Just so that you know libesmtp-0.84 version is broken. It crashes the
> balsa, while sending an email. I had to revert it back to
> libesmtp-0.83
> version to get it going. I am running balsa on RH7.1 box.
> 
> thanks!
> --Asim/;
>

DEFINITELY NOT my experience.  On FreeBSD 4.4-RC1, libesmtp-0.84 is
quantum improvement over 0.83 (the mailing dialogs flash by so fast I
can barely read them; reading could be done quite leisurely with 0.83). 
Of course, YMMV.

jmc
================================ 
> 
> 
> On 2001.08.23 09:07:37 -0500 Pawel Salek wrote:
> =]     Hello,
> =]     
> =]     I would like to announce balsa-1.2.pre2 release. We keep
> nailing
> =]     down
> =]     problems and striding right towards 1.2.0.
> =]     
> =]     The major highlights of this release are:
> =]     - download pop3 mail to arbirary box.
> =]     - numerous memory leaks plugged (some remain in the sending
> code).
> =]     - SSL roughly functional.
> =]     - new nice icons.
> =]     - paper selection implemented.
> =]     - LDIF address book format added (this is the recommended
> format).
> =]     - LDAP address book functional for large LDAP servers.
> =]     - numerous bugs fixed, including: #52384, #55416, #55437,
> #58473, 
> =]       #59326, #59331 and 34 other less interesting (duplicated,
> =]     packaging
> =]     errors,
> =]       older versions).
> =]     
> =]     We focus mostly on fixing bugs now so there are no many new
> =]     features. We
> =]     still have few more to fix but we hope for the best (this
> =]     gnome_exec_async() related with gnome_show_url() bugs me; I
> posted
> =]     about
> =]     this to gnome-devel-list but nobody seems to have a clue about
> this;
> =]     IMO, this is a bug in gnome-libs). If you had any problems with
> =]     older
> =]     releases, it is recommended to upgrade.
> =]     
> =]     As always, you can find more details in ChangeLog. Visit
> =]     
> =]     http://www.balsa.net/download.html (to be updated soon).
> =]     or
> =]     http://www.newton.cx/balsa/download.html (backup).
> =]     or download directly from
> =]     http://www.theochem.kth.se/~pawsa/balsa/balsa-1.1.7.tar.gz
> =]     http://www.theochem.kth.se/~pawsa/balsa/balsa-1.1.7-1.src.rpm
> =]     http://www.theochem.kth.se/~pawsa/balsa/balsa-1.1.7-1.i386.rpm
> =]     
> =]     It is recommended to use libESTMP-0.8.4 with this release
> (although
> =]     0.8.3 is most frequently sufficient, from the collected
> wisdom).
> =]     
> =]     Happy mailing!
> =]     
> =]     Pawel
> =]     -- 
> =]     Pawel Salek (pawsa@theochem.kth.se)
> =]     http://www.theochem.kth.se/~pawsa/
> =]     Theoretical Chemistry Division, KTH voice: +46 8 790-8202
> =]     
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