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The file linked from this page is a beta test version of MailMaint. The beta version is made available to those that have experienced problems in MailMaint, to ensure such problems are fixed before an official release. Please make sure you keep your previous version of MailMaint, in case you need to downgrade.

Features and bug Fixes in beta 23rd October 2008

.1 - It is now possible to delete archived email in the same way as POP3 email, except it will delete the files saved and the archived header, it does not effect messages still in the POP3 mailbox.

2 - Fixed various bugs relating to some header information not be cleared when swapping mailboxes, or between reading POP3 and archived mail.

3 - If Debug Windows (Some) if specifically on it's own, SMTP mail content is no longer shown in the debug window (which slows down relaying at lot).

4 - It's now possible to stop multiple emails being relayed, rather than waiting for them all to be progressed.

5 - If email archiving is specified, email set for deletion as spam is now automatically archived into a daily spam file, rather than being ignored, to be consistent with the 'Check Mail' task in DUN Manager.

Features and bug Fixes in beta 21st October 2008

1 - MailMaint is now Unicode enabled for display of email with non-Latin contents, Windows fonts permitting. This means spam sent with Cyrillic (Russian) symbols will display correctly, ditto Greek, Turkish and Arabic. Chinese and other Far Eastern are not normally installed in Windows (and display as blanks), but may be added from Control Panel. Regional and Language Options, Supplemental language support, beware the Asian fonts take a lot of disk space. Note this is only display Unicode support, mailboxes and file paths are still only ANSI.

2 - Improved the inline decoding of header fields, and added two new header columns, Charset and Code Page, that indicate the language in which the email was composed. Non-Latin languages are added to the appropriate header fields, so From or Subject may have [Cyrillic] or [Chinese] added to the end. Note that UTF8 means Unicode text that may all the characters in the world and does not identify a language.

3 - Added a new Non-Latin spam filter, so that non-Latin email is treated as spam and ticked for deletion. This is done by identifying non-Latin character sets, also by checking the number of 8-bit characters in the header (non-Latin character sets have their main alphabets between 0xC0 and 0xFE) so they can still show English ASCII characters. Often spam ignore the character set so just displays as accented characters. During testing, it was interesting to see that a lot of banking phishing emails are delivered with the Windows-1251 character set, which is Cyrillic, so clearly email not from UK banks (or very intelligent spammers).

4 - There are various improvements when displaying mail bodies, non-Latin ones should display correctly, blank parts are ignored, and HTML content displays as text if HTML Display is not selected. Images may now be viewed.

5 - Added the ability to archive or save all downloaded email, except that ticked for deletion as spam. Mail be be download to individual files, or one file per day. Archived mail may be displayed from Mailbox, Open Mail Archive. Previously, archiving was only possible when DUN Manager was used with MailMaint to download email. Note that deletion of archived mail is not yet supported, but will be for the next beta.

6 - Added two new Message menu options. 'Recheck All for Spam' will quickly check all downloaded headers against the current spam filters and tick email detected as spam, which can be useful after changing spam settings. 'Download Headers Again' allows replacement of current headers, for instance if archiving or character sets are now needed.

7 - Added a new Setting menu option, 'Set Header List Font' to select the style and size of the font used to show mailbox headers.

8 - The right click menu accessed while viewing a message now includes the same four Display Format options as the Settings menu, allowing the format to be changed with fewer clicks.

9 - Note this MailMaint beta should not be used with a DUN Manager version dated earlier than 21st October 2008 and accessing the same mailboxes, otherwise Unicode headers will be lost.

If you notice any problems with this beta release, please email with details of the problem and the date of the beta version you are using.

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