Release history and changes:

Version 2.0.15.1 (Beta 38):

• Fixed a significant GDI object leak
• Added Spanish, Russian, Serbian (latin and cyrillic) translations
• Fixed an EReadError when a new composition window was being created
• Fix: The "!dELetE" action didn't work case-insensitive
• Fixed "stretch to fit" function for images with less than 24bpp
• Group options now work with multiple selected groups if you tick the checkbox "Use these options for all selected groups" (only enabled when all selected items are of the same type, e.g. only newsgroups or only folders)
• Fixed a problem with script execution where scripts were terminated too early after one script saw an unhandled exception
• Fixed a bug with displaying slightly buggy bmp files saved in Photoshop
• Fixed an "Exception while color coding" when overwriting multiple selected lines with the Return key
• Exceptions in scripts are now (always) reported in the log window
• When searching for a MsgID with the result group available on the current tab, the active tab is now used instead of the Subscribed or All tab
• Fixed zombie entries in the list of active threads in the log window
• When using "Create draft from sent item" on messages with attachments, the filename of the attachment was in the body of the new draft
• Fixed a freeze with "Skip to next unread newsgroup" when the "Expand threads when skipping to next article" option was unchecked
• Holding down Ctrl when clicking on the "Reply" button now toggles the "Use default MAPI email client" for this reply
• Fixed adding plonk rules for articles with From fields including parenthesis in the email part
• Fix: The windows title wasn't initially set for new composition windows
• Fix: When navigating to a MsgID inside a collapsed thread, first message in the thread was marked read due to the "Mark read when article pane has focus" option.
• Fix: Acronyms and font styles combined with each other and line break sometimes behaved incorrectly
• Fix: Selecting CE, Baltic, Greek, etc. versions of a font resulted in an AV upon restart
• Fixed an intermittent AV when closing Dialog with a composition window open
• Fix: The "Do not ask again" checkbox did not work for the confirmation dialog for the "no reply - ignore" feature in test groups
• Fixed the mbox importing/exporting which now correctly adds/removes one ">" for non-separating From lines that start with multiple ">" characters
• When importing messages from mbox files that have no Date: header, the date is now taken from the "From" separator line
• Fixed a time zone bug when importing messages from an mbox file
• Changed the address book format, so length limitations no longer apply
• Fixed an encoding problem with HTML attachments in outgoing messages
• Fixed broken subject header encodings with replies/fups to messages with Unicode subjects on Windows 95/98/ME
• Fix: If you have a custom script named like an event-script the custom script was executed in place of the event script
• "From:" headers that are feed into the scoring machine are now pre-processed, so that escape characters "/" are properly removed and From: fields are always of the form '"name" <emailaddress>'
• Removing a watch/ignore flag no longer removes ignore/watch flag deeper in a thread
• Fix: Reformat paragraph sometimes wrapped long URLs
• Fix: When following up to a message in a folder the "Server" input field wasn't initially filled in
• Fix/change: Folders are now consistently always present on the Subscribed tab (wasn't previously so for folders created in a category tab)
• Fixed a freeze (actually very long running code) when moving lots of articles from one group to another
• Fixed a couple of other AVs
• Fix: Pressing Enter in the grouplist with 2-windows layout made Dialog look frozen
• New icon for composition window that now shows up correctly when alt-tabbing through the task list
• Fixed an AV on startup when the columns in the thread list in the status windows had a width of zero
• Fixed a rare AV when compacting the database
• The freeze detection is now turned off when a MAPI session with the default email program is running and Dialog is blocked during this time
• When searching at Google Groups search terms are now encoded in utf-8
• Fix: When superseding articles, encoded words in X-Header fields were not properly decoded in the composition window
• Fixed a LIOOB (-1) error when copying/moving articles with multipart attachments
• Fixed a begin/end scanning error which was ignoring valid begin/end pairs after invalid begin/end pairs
• Fixed encoding of messages with yEnc-encoded attachments that needed a Unicode charset
• Dialog now won't use shift sequence charsets (utf-7, ISO-2022-JP, hz-gb-2312, big5) for messages with UU or Yencoded attachments
• Fix: Group descriptions (tag lines) were now longer available after compacting the database

Version 2.0.14.1 (Beta 37):

• Fixed an AV when closing Dialog
• Fixed a rare AV when collapsing a thread
• Dialog now correctly remembers window positions on multiple monitors and reverts to the default positions when the setup changed and a previous position is outside the visible desktop
• Fixed importing of server data from Agent and Xnews
• Fixed the installed version of readme.txt which referenced variables instead of version numbers and dates
• Fixed the cancel/supersede check with email addresses that included quoted characters
• Upon first start of this version all data\*.dir files are renamed to data\*.drt, thus the data is not backward compatible after the first start
• Upon first start of this version all data\*.cat files are renamed to data\*.cto, thus the data is not backward compatible after the first start
• Upon first start of this version all data\*.dsc files are renamed to data\*.gtl, thus the data is not backward compatible after the first start
• The combobox in the Copy/Move window and the Newsgroups and Followup-to comboboxes in the composition window are now filled with all groups that are on category tabs
• Scripting now accepts include files without file extensions
• Fixed painting width of some checkboxes
• Added a scripting function ADoLater
• Fixed the painting of spoilered text when foreground and background color were set to black
• Fixed OnGroupEntered which didn't give the group name
• Show all headers did nothing for messages that only had HTML and no plain text parts (raw version is now shown instead)
• Fixed the tooltips for the "Find" and "Find next" buttons in the scripting window for some languages
• "Get new headers" sometimes got all headers in a group (again) when the server lowered the highest article index in a group e.g. after it received a cancel message
• Fix: Dialog will no longer try to process a news link when it's already busy processing one
• snews: links are now highlighted in Dialog
• Fixed a bug when clicking on snews: links. Dialog didn't recognized an already existing server entry since it was always looking for one with port number 119
• Fixed displaying of grayscale jpegs with "Stretch to fit" enabled while not needed
• The spell checker now supports, thus ignores curly quotes
• When superseding articles all headers that can be set within the composition window are now set from the original post

Version 2.0.13.1 (Beta 36):

• -Fix: All button menus in the addressbook including "Add new entry" were disabled as long as no entry was selected
• -Fix: Some uuencoded attachments with a second "begin" in the body were not automatically saved to disk (if that option is selected)
• -Fix: The checkboxes in the spell check option window and the list of queued jobs in the status window are now Unicode aware
• -Fix: The default popup menus in some editor windows (e.g. in scripting, scoring, bookmarks, etc.) are now Unicode aware
• -Fix: When canceling a get marked messages job, the articles now get their mark for retrieval flag back (this only worked for active jobs, but not for queued jobs)
• -Fix: When using Shift TAB in the composition window to change focus Dialog first entered a literal TAB into the composition window and THEN changed focus
• -Fix: With the "Keep column position" enabled, when a line unwrapped, the caret was shown at the wrong positon
• -Fixed "Cannot create new process: log was terminated." error messages after using "Stop all tasks"
• -Fixed 100% CPU usage at the end of some lengthy operations ("Apply scoring on selected group" etc.)
• -Fixed a bug that interfered with character input through IME
• -Fixed a bug when executing mailto: links with Dialog set up as the default emailer and already running on Windows 95/98/ME
• -Fixed a few problems with the z-order of some windows
• -Fixed a key exchange bug in the SSL code that prevented connection to some SSL servers
• -Fixed a LIOOB error referencing "SetNewAll"
• -Fixed an AV when closing the composition window while the spelling popup menu is active
• -Fixed an AV when selecting a non-existing file when loading an X-Face bitmap
• -Fixed an intermittent AV when searching with the "Whole words only" option checked
• -Fixed another intermittent deadlock
• -Fixed AV when importing mbox files without a trailing new line character
• -Fixed copying/moving of multipart articles with subjects longer than 150 characters
• -Fixed deleting all bookmarks (they kept reappearing)
• -Fixed false positive error message "PLEASE REPORT with the complete call stack below!!! TDDNewsgroup.GetName failed; Not ReadIN" upon startup
• -Fixed MAPI not working with Outlook 2003
• -Fixed message script that could call other scripts while the scripting engine was still busy
• -Fixed replying by email through MAPI with the Becky email client
• -Fixed replying by email to messages with very long From fields
• -Fixed the "allow expanded umlaut characters (ö->oe)" option to work with suggestions offered by the live speller
• -Fixed the "prompt on repeated word" option in the live spelling checker
• -Fixed the donation star not showing for message with the exact subject "Re:"
• -Fixed the email cursor that is shown when the mouse is hovering over an email address
• -Fixed the menu key not bringing up the context menu in the composition window
• -Fixed threading of most articles into one thread in the "Sent" folder when using one of the "Thread, Score, Date" sort orders
• -Fixed three intermittent AV upon program termination
• -Fixed two wrong values in the ISO-8859-16 character map
• -Fixed wrong focus when the open dialog in the "Import messages..." dialog was active and Dialog was (re)activated
• -Fixed wrong scroll direction with the "Scroll complete page" Windows mouse wheel setting
• -Fixed yencoded data showing up in the plain text part of articles with yencoded multipart attachments
• -Fixed yet another bug in the yEnc decoder that hit when the parts were longer than actually needed
• -Fixed zero byte files when saving attachments
• -Fixed: Attachment could not be saved in directories with Unicode characters in their names
• -Fixed: Changing signatures in composition window made the text scroll up a bit every time
• -Fixed: For some confirmation dialogs closing with the "X" button triggered an action
• -Fixed: The color comboboxes in the message properties window didn't have were not painted correctly when they had focus and no color was selected
• -Fixed: The email address field in the composition window appeared highlighted even though it didn't have focus
• -Fixed: When the last part of a multipart posting came in, thus all parts are available, the message was always marked as unread (again), ignoring scoring.
• -Fixed: X-Post management affected postings copied to folders through a scoring action
• -":-/" and ":-|" are now recognized as smileys
• -"ftp.." is no longer shown as a clickable link
• -"No reply - Ignore" is now added after confirmation even when posting to multiple groups
• -8bit characters in the subject header of superseding articles were posted in raw 8-bit
• -A missing "ANN: " in the subject of a reply to an announcement post no longer triggers a subject change
• -Added "Find..." and "Find next" functions in the scripting, scoring and composition windows
• -Added "Show monospaced" option to the glossary window and made the window larger
• -Added a simple check for colons in X-Header names
• -Added a warning when there is a "null" found in a script when compiling
• -Added self healing for error "Cannot open file '...\[NUM].str'." after a badly timed (Windows) crash
• -Added simple color coding in the scoring window
• -Added support for combined styles (e.g. _*text*_)
• -Added support for posting of attachments with Unicode filenames (works with MIME and UUEncoded messages; yEnc is missing the specification)
• -Added support for SVG color keywords in the internal HTML viewer
• -Added support for the Windows "Snap to default button" mouse option
• -Added three new thread navigation functions: "Up to parent" (Ctrl+Shift+P), "Up to older brother" (Ctrl+Shift+B) and "Down to younger sister" (Ctrl+Shift+S) (keyboard shortcuts are only set with new installations)
• -After pasting from the clipboard or expanding a glossary term the caret is now scrolled into view in the composition window
• -An empty signature (with signature separator) was not cut off when following up
• -Better multipart recognition: A single multipart has to be at least 20KB large (except for the last part)
• -Better multipart recognition: Tags like (2\1) no longer are recognized
• -Dialog no longer automatically deletes empty categories
• -Dialog now asks for a confirmation when the user edited the References header of a post
• -Dialog now uses the same MsgID again when trying to send a draft a second time to prevent double posts when Dialog received a timeout error the first time it tried to send the message but the server actually received and accepted the message
• -Dialog will no longer try to apply a font fallback because of Unicode characters $0086 to $009F (previously it was $0086 to $008E), fixing the changing fonts for no apparent reason
• -Dialog will now keep the selected text selected when applying ROT13
• -Following-up to a multipart message created a draft with wrong subject and other header fields
• -For repetitive random signature selections, you can now press return to assign a new signature when the focus is in the signature combobox
• -Glossaries now work on substrings (Say the caret is behind "abc" it will use the "abc" glossary. If that doesn't exist, it will use "bc" and if that doesn't exist, it uses the "c" glossary.)
• -Gracefully handling attachment files that were automatically saved to disk by Dialog and that have exclusive read access by another application at the time the message is reselected in Dialog
• -Gracefully handling failing renaming of data_new, data_old and data folders when compacting the database
• -If sending through MAPI fails, the error message now goes to the log window and the reply is created within Dialog instead
• -In some cases Dialog produced an AV when searching for a group by initials
• -Large amounts of text in the composition window are now handled quicker, which includes that the live speller is automatically turned off after 30.000 checked words
• -Made "Reconstruct thread" faster
• -Made deleting of very many groups when updating group lists faster, preventing a freeze error message
• -Made purging of articles with very many article deletions very much faster
• -Made sorting by subject and from much faster
• -Now using Unicode filenames for attachments with non-ascii characters (on Windows XP/2000)
• -References to category tabs in the history file that now longer exist are now handles gracefully (fixes AV upon startup)
• -Replying by email though MAPI now correctly uses the email address _and_ the name of the recipient
• -Rewrote parts of the code that gets the list of new/all groups to prevent freezes in certain setups
• -Right clicking in the message parts tree now selects the clicked part before the context menu is shown
• -Scoring on number of crossposts is no longer limited to the XOver, but is correctly applied afterwards, too
• -Scripting engine now is version SVN 951: Fixed problems with char/string constants in scripts
• -Sorting by %from% now sorts by name, then email address, the date (previously "name, then date")
• -Sorting by subject now ignores "ANN: " (just like it ignores "Re:")
• -Status window is now hidden while closing Dialog
• -The "Mark read when body receives focus" function now only works when the body is actually retrieved
• -The copy/move dialog now remembers the previously selected folder/group
• -The filter checkbox on the panel above the header list now is automatically checked when text is entered into the edit field and unset when the field is emptied by the user
• -The function that checked host names for syntax errors in the setup wizard is now disabled, since it did more harm that it was useful
• -The functions GetActionList, LockDisplay, UnLockDisplay, ADo, AChecked, AEnabled, DropMarker, NextMarker, PrevMarker, ClearMarkers can no longer be used in these event scripts: ONXOVER, ONBEFORESAVINGMESSAGE, ONBEFORESENDINGMESSAGE, ONEMAILCHECKED (the functions Writeln and Readln can still be used in these scripts, but will only show effect when the script is run in the scripting window while debugging)
• -The golden star didn't show for postings that had subject lines with leading whitespace as a draft
• -The input field for the filter word on the panel above the header list now uses the remaining space to fill the toolbar completely
• -The installation comes with an slightly update version of the American spelling dictionary
• -The LBS is now correctly centered with non-standard scrollbars sizes
• -The optional addition of " - no reply - ignore" when posting to a test newsgroups is now done when a new draft is created; no further change is done upon sending
• -The optional addition of "(was: ...)" now happens at the time you edit the subject field in the composition window; no further change is done upon sending
• -The popup menu for the live spelling checker in the composition window is now correctly themed
• -The regular expression tester is now shown in a separate, non-modal window and accessible from the main window (help menu) and the scoring window
• -The scripting debug output window sometimes retained the previous output when changing to another script
• -The scripting engine now has a new pre-processor with better support for includes {$I file.ds} and that also supports defines ({$DEFINE ...}, {$IFDEF}, etc.)
• -The scripting window now remembers the last used script (within the same Dialog session)
• -The sorting options have been removed from the "Selected groups settings" (A different sorting than in the default groups options will no longer result in a group having its own set of setting.)
• -The warning when "Mail-Copies-To: nobody" was set is now only shown when the reply is actually emailed _and_ posted
• -Trailing spaces before line breaks are now stripped when a paragraph is reformatted in the composition window
• -Update the script engine to SV and rewrote parts of the scripting code
• -You can now double-click on a line in the scripting debug output window to jump to a line with an error, warning or hint
• -You now have to hold down shift and ctrl (previously only shift) when you double click on a newsgroup and want to retrieve _all_ headers (people accidentally ran into getting all instead of just new)

Version 2.0.12.1 (Beta 35):

• Fixed the "Socket Error # 10049" messages and missing article bodies in watched threads
• Fixed Windows 95 compatibility problem
• Fix: The group descriptions were truncated after 70 characters
• Fix: The progress panel in the "Compact database" window now displays Unicode characters correctly
• Fixed a LIOOB error with the "Find original message" function in the composition window
• Fix: Closing Dialog while tasks are running should now always be handled gracefully
• Fixed wrong entries in the history buffer upon startup
• Fixed filtering by "is" and "is not"
• Fixed navigation to internal anchors in the HTML viewer
• Fixed the default date/time for the calendar in the expiration header field editor
• Fix: Dialog sometimes picked the wrong identity when superseding a message when there were multiple identities using the same email address
• Fix: Advanced SMTP setting were not always saved after a change
• Fixed font size and background color in the setup wizard
• Fixed an AV upon closing referencing "TCustomActivityLogClient.Start"
• Fixed the upload of crash logs to Mantis ("URI too long" error)
• Fixed lost focus when switching views
• Fixed an intermittent deadlock
• Fixed the %subject% variable in the columns of the article list
• Fixed flickering with "Enter" and changing the pages in the general settings
• Fixed searching in the system folders
• Fixed a LIOOB message with the skip navigation
• Fixed false positive UU detections
• "Reformat paragraph" with no text selected now reformats the current paragraph only
• Added a new undocumented option "PaternosterAlways=0" in [Navigation] section to enable the Paternoster function with all skip navigations
• MsgIDs/Emails addresses with local parts that only consist of numbers, dots and commas are now handled as MsgIDs
• Added an undocumented option FilterWordWidth=82 in the [VisStates] section that can be used to change the width of the input field for the filter word
• The names of the languages in the Language menu are now shown in the native and English language
• The installer now creates empty "acrocust.dat" and "acrocust-[LANGID].dat" files if they don't exist yet
• Added Ctrl+A (Select all), Ctrl+Z (Undo) and Ctrl+Shift+Z (Redo) shortcuts to several edit windows
• Updated the acro-de.dat file (German acronyms)

Version 2.0.11.1 (Beta 34):

• -Fix: Some controls on some forms were not correctly themed on Windows XP (e.g. in the Scoring window)
• -Fixed an AV in the column editors when the database was previously compacted
• -Fixed a bug in the internal codepage conversion routines resulting in questions marks in some displayed strings and prevented correct input of some extended characters
• -Fix: When a message was posted and emailed, the Content-Type: header had a double charset parameter
• -Fixed "<URL:...>" links to work with the "URL" part in lowercase
• -Fixed a bug in the font fallback feature (some fallback fonts were not used though they had glyphs for all needed characters)
• -Fixed three memory leaks
• -Fixed an intermittent AV when replying to a posting
• -Fixed a repeating AV when compacting the DB failed
• -Fixed some false positives email addresses/MsgIDs in the color coding
• -Fixed color coding of email addresses/MsgIDs with trailing colons
• -Fixed a bug in the splitter controls resulting in irreversible hidden controls in the addressbook and scripting window
• -Fixed bookmarks sometimes becoming invalid after compacting the db
• -Fixed a frequently seen deadlock
• -Fixed yet another bug with the selection margins when searching for text with headers visible
• -Fixed a painting bug where the shadow area of the menus was not properly cleaned up
• -Fixed an intermittent AV when closing Dialog
• -Fixed an bug that resulted in too large idents in the threaded view of the article list
• -Fixed the setcolor action with color names longer than 8 characters (e.g. "MoneyGreen")
• -Fixed an intermittent problem on Windows 95/98/ME that prevented saving of the group list
• -Fixed execution of links when selecting URLs with the mouse
• -Fixed the option to suppress the "Please note that the poster set the header Mail-Copies-To..." confirmation
• -Fixed dialog.chm::/topic.html links
• -Fixed the intermittent missing check mark in the "Views" menu
• -Fixed: Sometimes message scripts were triggered non-matching Windows messages
• -Fixed: The number of subscribed groups shown as a tooltip on the "Subscribed" tab sometimes showed a wrong number
• -Fixed the icon drawing with high contrast color schemes
• -Fixed color coding of mailto: links with parameters
• -Fixed a "List index out of bounds (-2)" when copying a multipart message
• -Fixed errors when using "Delete addressbook" with no addressbook selected
• -Fixed the progress indicator when saving multiple attachments at once
• -Fix: Starting new jobs after stopping all tasks should now generally work
• -Fixed URL color coding for URLs that include parentheses
• -Fixed the Newsgroups: and Email to: input field reverting to previously used addresses/groups when using submatches of them
• -Fixed loading and saving of files (mbox export, attachments, xface, etc.) on XP/2000 with paths that included extended characters
• -Fixed importing of mbox files that uses Mac style line separators
• -Fixed handling of From: fields that look like "Name "
• -Fixed a missing empty line after the attribution line when using "Forward unquoted"
• -Fixed a "Division by zero" error with badly formatted HTML emails
• -Fixed changing the case of server and identity names
• -Fixed the "Ignore words in UPPERCASE" option for the spell checker on Windows 95/98/ME
• -Fixed a frequent "List index out of bounds" error that happened when handling supersedes
• -Fixed a deadlock in the copy/move action logic (though very unlikely to happen)
• -Fix: Emails that got deleted through a scoring action weren't deleted from the POP3 server (with "Delete mails on server once successfully retrieved" enabled)
• -Fixed duplicate retrieval of already downloaded emails
• -Fixed display of (local) inline images in HTML emails
• -Fixed the off-screen hint windows with some multi-monitor setups
• -Fixed initial text in the composition window when superseding (now independent from any message view options)
• -Fixed a bug that could leave some db files in an unusable state after a crash/power failure
• -Fix: "Next message in history" got disabled after using "Previous message in history" and then e.g. "Show all message headers"
• -Fix: The %message-id% variable in attribution lines was always replaced with , even when replying to emails
• -Fix: Printing was started right after closing the printer settings window with ok when invoked from the print preview window
• -Fix: Changing the leading for the font in the group and article list in the general setting is now applied immediately, not after a restart
• -Fixed the vanishing attribution lines
• -Fix: Words with a single quote behind them confused the spell checker
• -Fixed "locate original post" after reopening a draft
• -Fixed handling of Spanish prepositions in the spelling checker
• -Fix: After a !move action all subsequent actions are no consistently ignored
• -Fix: Control characters no longer trigger bold/italic, etc. formatting in the body pane
• -Fix: Finally fixed the non-sticky pane layout setting problem
• -Fix: Changed the Status window to use system colors
• -Fix: Focus rectangles in the group and article list are now only drawn when the list has the focus or multiple items are selected
• -All +/- buttons are now drawn in Windows style
• -The installer will overwrite the acro.dat and all acro-[LANGID].dat files with each install. User can now use their own "acrocust.dat" and "acrocust-[LANGID].dat" files which will persist between updates
• -The static acronyms.adm spell checker dictionary has been removed. The spell checker now ignores all acronyms that are in the acro*.dat files
• -Spinedits are now correctly (Windows XP) themed if enabled
• -An updated version of the American spelling dictionary is included
• -All borders, e.g in the general settings are now (Windows XP) themed if enabled
• -Dialog now handles "From: Firstname Lastname" header fields gracefully
• -Crash and freeze logs can now be directly uploaded to Mantis; you'll need to enter your Mantis Username and Password in Dialog for this ("Misc." page in the general settings)
• -Updated to a new exception handler
• -Rewrote parts of the POP3 code (all emails are now fetched first, then processed into Dialog, not one after another)
• -POP3 now uses pipelining if the POP3 server allows it
• -Full article retrieval now uses pipelining (should be much faster to retrieve large numbers of articles from remote servers)
• -Added new "Download unread emails only" option (now using UIDs exclusively to identify previous seen emails)
• -Moving emails to folders now works even if it produces duplicates
• -Added the missing "Charsets" submenu to the "Message" main menu items
• -Changed the two cursors used when customizing the buttons on the toolbars
• -Added a Help menu item that links to the Wiki
• -The From: field shown in the first line on the panel above the article body is now always formatted (escaped characters show up right, but the order of email and address might not be the same as in the original from field)
• -You can now filter error messages, so that the status window doesn't popup on these errors any longer
• -Changed the cancel/supersede check; you no longer have to change to the matching identity to cancel a posting that was written with a currently not active identity
• -Added handling for parameters in mailto links
• -Added the paternoster navigating option with SKR (cycling through new messages until all read); enabled as default
• -The group descriptions are now fetched from the server together with the group list (optional; see General settings>Connections)
• -The default alternation color is now calculated as a variation from the default background color
• -The flat menu style now depends on the current theme
• -Converted the status window to a toolbar (unfortunately the transparency slider had to go)
• -Added more themes (default theme now is Office2003), made the toolbars theme aware and moved the theme selection from the general settings onto the Settings menu bar
• -The toolbars can now be dragged around and can float
• -Added the "Distribution" header in the composition window
• -Views assigned to a group now only work as _intial_ views when entering a group; further if a default view for a group is currently overriding the global view, the actual active view is painted in bold in the Views menu
• -Menus are now animated (if enabled in the Windows (XP/2000) settings)
• -The GUI reacts slicker now with lots of worker threads
• -The active selection is now updated before the context menu in the group and article list is shown (fixing incorrectly enabled/disabled menu items)
• -Folder names in "!copy" and "!move" actions now work case-sensitive
• -Non-image attachments larger than 5MB that were already automatically saved to disk are no longer loaded into memory when the article is selected (fixes "out of memory" errors with very large attachments)
• -Terms like "localpart@127.0.0.1" are now considered to be a MsgID
• -The size of the selected fallback font is now automatically selected. Dialog tries to use a fallback font size that results in about the same font height as the default font. The font sizes in the font fallback list now are relative to the standard font size in case it needs a bit of human adjustment (+/- 0, 1, 2, etc.)
• -Made the font fallback much faster (fontinfo.dat is no longer needed)

Version 2.0.10.1 (Beta 33):

• Fixed "Out of bounds/range" errors on Windows versions with multibyte character sets
• Fixed the focus and the position of the caret when adding poster/subject scoring rules
• Fix: "Suppress signature" was hiding the complete article body
• Fix: "<URL:...>" expressions with a missing ">" are no longer excessively colored
• Fix: Whitespace within "<URL:...>" is now correctly ignored
• Fix: Cross-paragraph "<URL:...>" now works within quoted text
• Fixed clicking on URLs on Windows 95/98/ME
• Fixed a resource leak in the composition window
• Fix: Dialog didn't send a QUIT to the POP3 server when there were no messages on the server
• Added some log message in log level 0 for the font fallback feature

Version 2.0.9.1 (Beta 32):

• Fixed a deadlock when retrieving emails
• Fix: Searching ignored the current "Suppress quoted lines" and "Suppress signatures" flags and had problems with WrapOverride characters and the "Show all headers" option when searching in system folders
• Fix: Dialog no limits the References header to 999 characters
• Fix: Dialog now correctly uses the date/time format from the Windows regional settings for the %date% variable used in signatures
• Fix: "Add plonk rule" sometimes inserted the rule twice
• Fix: Long words (e.g. and especially URLs) are no longer rewrapped
• Fix: Clicking on a Mailto: in a browser with Dialog set up as the default email client sometimes did not bring up the composition window on top
• Fixed the cursor in the article pane always showing the hand cursor
• Fix: The signature setting in the selected groups options for an Inbox is now correctly used when creating a draft
• Fix: Dialog now correctly uses the email address given in the Sender input field with the SMTP "Mail from" command
• Fixed an intermittent AV with the color coding
• Fixed restoring of window positions when the Windows taskbar is located at the top of the screen
• Fixed closing the "Ignore this warnings?" with the system button acting like clicking the "Yes" button
• Fix: Mouse wheel scrolling in the composition window always scrolled by one line, ignoring the system setting
• Fixed an access violation after using "Reformat paragraph" in the composition window
• Fixed the thick caret in the body pane
• Fix: Canceling <delete articles/bodies> unselected all headers
• Fix: Purge settings by age was off by one day
• Fix: news:// URLs with ports were not recognized correctly
• Fixed spell checker with repeated word on quoted lines with the ignore quoted lines option on
• Fixed listing of attachments in the message parts tree when a message had multiple attachments and was autom. saved to disk
• Fixed an AV when deleting a bookmark
• Fixed editing the font fallback list which deleted the last font in the list
• Fix: OnStartup script is now executed right on startup even if Dialog is started as minimized
• Fixed changing scroll position and text selection when new headers/email were added to a group/folder while reading a message
• Fixed UTF-7 and ISO-2022-JP encoding in message headers
• Fixed compacting the database which sometimes reported "More disk space needed" with enough disk space available
• Fixed an AV when toggling word wrap with an article without body selected
• Fixed a parsing error with the "{$include ...}" command in scripting
• Fixed a "list index out of bounds" error when reopening a draft with zipped attachments
• Fixed winsock error 10054 messages when connecting to servers with low timeouts
• Fix: Clicking the middle mouse button no longer scrolls to the caret position in the body pane
• Added missing translations for context menu
• Made Dialog start up quicker on systems with lots of fonts installed
• Removed the time limit (expiration)
• Fups to multipart posting no longer have the red "broken attachment" icon
• Added support for cross-paragraph URLs enclosed in <URL:...>
• Article bodies currently being retrieved (yellow flash icon) are now no longer shown in a View that has the "Without bodies" condition set
• Streamlined the color coding and the logic used for previewing the charset in the composition window
• Streamlined opening the general settings

Version 2.0.8.1 (Beta 31):

• Fixed clicking on news://server.tld/ links and adding the server to Dialog's list of servers
• Fixed a list index out of bounds issue when groups are flushed to disk
• Fixed decoding of Base64 parts with charset different than iso-8859-1
• Fixed a double warning about using yEnc with emails
• Fixed the non-numerical shortcut keys on the NumPad and their standard equivalents
• Fixed painting after the Backspace key was pressed in the message body
• Fixed a modal message dialog (potentially) hidden behind the button configuration dialog in the scripting window
• Fixed the "Suppress quoted lines" feature with multiple quoted lines separated by a blank line
• Fixed folding within words
• Fixed recognition of subject changes
• Fixed a "List index out of bounds (-1)" error when a connection error happened while reconstructing a thread
• Fixed the changing the position of the "Connections: " string on the status bar
• Fixed BCC to work with no "To:" header set
• Fixed French spell checking for words including an apostrophe
• Fixed multipart articles becoming unread when compressing the database
• Fixed the display of the newsgroup name above the headers when a large font is used
• Fixed the "on-the-fly" spell checking when the button for this function was removed in the composition window
• Fixed underlining of accelerator keys
• Fixed adding a word to the dictionary when the word was the last word in the text
• Fixed a deadlock when searching in message bodies while article were retrieved in a group
• Fixed the run buttons in the scripting window
• Fixed translation of buttons and captions in message dialogs
• Fixed a bug in the spell checker which made it forget its settings
• Fixed a "Could not call proc" error with the scripting engine
• Fixed a bug in the acronym recognition
• Fixed a file access violation when downloading emails
• Fixed smiley support to correctly work when following up and with the "Suppress quoted lines" feature
• Fix: Made the names of "Views" Unicode aware (you might need to correct them once if you use extended characters there)
• Fix: Updated the editor component (fixes a whole series of bugs)
• Fix: A manual change of the MsgID in the window that pops up when you click on a MsgID was ignored
• Fix: "suppress quoted lines" now ignores the signature
• Fix: Messages in Drafts, Outbox and Sent are now displayed correctly with line wrappings
• Updated the regular expression chapter in the helpfile
• Added a new "Connections" settings page and redesigned the "Misc." page
• Renaming an identity now correctly renames the inbox folder instead of creating a new one
• The standard View names are now updated when the user changes the language
• The column captions are now initialized translated
• Added option to use a third party MAPI email client for replies by email
• Added option to ignore OE-signature delimiters
• Added support for "%>=" and "%<=" in scoring syntax
• Added a warning when Dialog is running with log level 0
• Added CRAM-MD5, CRAM-SHA1 and DIGEST-MD5 authentication schemes for SMTP and POP3
• Added some the new SSL and authentication options to the setup wizard
• Article bodies currently being retrieved (yellow flash icon) are now shown in a View that has the "With bodies" condition set
• Added recognition for XNews MsgIDs

Version 2.0.7.1 (Beta 30):

• Fixed an AV when shutting down Dialog
• Fixed copy to clipboard from the article header
• Fixed handling of fups to postings with "Mail-Copies-To: never" headers
• Fixed a "list index out of bounds (-1)" error when setting the watch state on freshly imported messages
• Fixed searching with the "whole words only" option that only allowed whitespace as word delimiters
• Fixed the "Not Assigned Expression Property" error messages
• Fixed the golden star not showing up in postings with very long References lines
• Fixed translation of some header names, which should not be translated
• Fixed "Article 0 not available" error messages when retrieving multipart messages
• Fixed painting on statusbar for very long strings
• Fixed silent exception when sending emails with the "Create copy of sent emails in folder ..." option
• Fixed mouse gestures that got disabled with every startup and the negative delta which was reset to 10
• Fixed encoding of plain text encoded words in subjects
• Fixed the GUI display when running a language with a different codepage than your system codepage (e.g. Greek GUI on German windows)
• Fixed URLs shining through spoilered text
• Fixed unmarking multiple messages for retrieval which removed the "body available" flag
• Fixed an AV when pressing insert, insert, return in the composition window editor
• Fixed character encoding of folder names when renaming or copying/moving from within scoring
• Fix: Moving articles to a group where they are moved from, deleted them
• When using %message-id% in attribution lines, Dialog now formats the inserted MsgId with a leading "news:"
• Mail-Copies-To and Follow-up to headers are now copied from the OP when superseding a posting
• Rewrote parts of the spell checker to support a more unicodish approach. You can now check languages independent from your GUI language and Windows codepage
• Added support for bold, italic and underlined acronyms
• Dialog now shows an error message upon startup if you don't have read and write access to the Dialog installation directory

Version 2.0.6.1 (Beta 29):

• Fixed "Execute MsgID" (for MsgIDs that Dialog does not automatically recognize) which also created a draft
• Fixed "Paste as custom quote"
• Fixed a "List index out of bounds (x)" message when getting bodies
• Fixed a "List index out of bounds" error when collapsing all threads in a group
• Fixed a (potential) AV when a previously lost outgoing message is recovered upon startup
• Fixed a (potential) AV when closing Dialog while tasks are running
• Fixed a bug in the reg. expr. engine that caused ")" and "(" to work as line separators
• Fixed a bug that always created a new Inbox for an identity when the name of the identity was longer than 20 characters (under some circumstances this could led to emails being downloaded and vanish)
• Fixed a bug where sending emails failed when scripting was disabled
• Fixed a freeze with malformed email addresses
• Fixed a short freeze when sending emails/postings
• Fixed a trailing "?" character when clicking on email links in Opera with Dialog set up as the default mailer
• Fixed an access violation connected to the autosave option for attachments
• Fixed an access violation when shutting down Windows while Dialog is running
• Fixed another "List index out of bounds (-1)" message when getting bodies
• Fixed Assignfile, and other I/O routines called from within scripts
• Fixed AVs when accessing the global Application variable from scripts
• Fixed BCC in outgoing emails
• Fixed color coding of emails/msgids to exclude trailing and leading question marks, etc.
• Fixed cut subject line when replying
• Fixed Dialog getting on top of the window list when clicking on a URL
• Fixed display of attachments that were automatically saved to disk with filenames including chars>#127
• Fixed extraction of the date header in attribution lines when the original post had this header at the beginning
• Fixed failing "Save all attachment of all selected messages" when the Esc key was previously pressed
• Fixed failing propagation of ignore/watch states for new articles
• Fixed folding of subject lines with encoded words to a length of 78 chars max(RFC 2047)
• Fixed HTML-only messages not being opened by a browser with "Execute attachment"
• Fixed importing from mbox format when the file did end with a CR/LF
• Fixed importing of mbox files larger than 64KB
• Fixed parts of multipart messages vanishing when their header included raw 8 bit characters
• Fixed multipart recognition for some yEnc subject lines
• Fixed passing of parameters to the first running instance of Dialog when a second one is started (e.g. when clicking on a newsgroup link in Internet Explorer with Dialog already running)
• Fixed purging in folders and inboxes
• Fixed quoted-printable encoding for outgoing emails that have attachments
• Fixed scoring on XRef header
• Fixed sorting by "From, Date", "Subject, Date" and "MsgID, Date" which was not sub-sorting by date at all
• Fixed the color coding sometimes showing large portions as a link
• Fixed the content dropdown box for "Other headers" in the composition window
• Fixed the number of characters used for quotes when using "Reformat paragraph"
• Fixed the Shortcut edit field in the "Configure buttons/shortcuts" window to accept special keys (Esc, Enter, etc.)
• Fixed the yEnc warning messages for emails with no attachments (when yenc is selected as default encoding)
• Fixed threading where an older message with the same subject became the parent of newer messages
• Fixed what looked like a freeze when switching focus back to Dialog with a modal window open
• Fixed wrapping of very long words (e.g. URLs...)
• Fixed a "Read Timeout" error when retrieving messages with empty bodies
• Fixed a "List index out of bounds (-1)" when selecting Charsets>Body charset from the context menu with no article selected
• Fix: Dialog stopped responding when trying to delete articles while downloading their bodies
• Fix: Removed the clear text usernames and passwords from the log file with debug level "All debug messages"
• Fix: Message scripts needed to be reloaded to be active
• Fix: OE showing up when clicking on emails/news URLs though Dialog was selected to do this during setup
• Fix: Saving MIME attachments with filenames including forbidden characters raised an error
• Fix: After a "Compact database" no group/article was selected, sometimes leading to error messages
• Fix: Changing the signature now deletes the previous signature even if the draft was closed and reopened
• Fix: Clicking on a MsgID to show it at Google Groups sometimes showed "Not found" though the message was actually available
• Fix: Deleting a server didn't properly delete the groups from this server from the category tabs, resulting in an access violation
• Fix: Dialog sometimes changed the selected message when a worker thread reindexed the active group
• Fix: When the progress window was shown and closed again during longer operations (e.g. searches) the main window lost the focus
• A whole couple of other minor fixes
• Added multilanguage support
• Added a "function EncodeWStringInUTF8(ws: widestring):string;" available in scripts
• Added a gutter with line numbers in the scripting window
• Added an "OnGroupEntered" event script
• Added an OnOutgoingMessageCheck event script handler
• Added an option for a dynamically resizing (in height) header panel (option is enables as default)
• Added an option for the initial position of the caret in follow-ups
• Added an option to autosave scripts upon compiling them
• Added confirmation dialogs with the option to turn them off
• Added SSL support
• Added support for replying to HTML message parts
• "Add sender to addressbook" now uses Reply-To email address if available
• Color coding of quoted lines now tries to ignore smileys
• Dialog now keeps track of the free disk space and disables itself when the disk is near to full
• Added an undocumented option AllowNoSpaceSigDelim=1 for the [General] section so you turn off Dialog handling "--" as a valid signature delimiter
• Dialog now uses email addresses in the Mailcopies-To: header when following-up
• Dialog when set up to handle mailto: links now correctly parses a passed subject
• Double-clicking on an email address enclosed in tags didn't copy the trailing '>' into the composition window
• Folders and newsgroup names and categories are now Unicode aware
• Hitting return in the filter edit field now applies the filter
• Lowered the number of connections/disconnections when sending multiple messages at once from the Outbox
• Made sorting/threading faster for very large groups that have a view active that hides most of the articles in the group
• Preceding blank lines are now stripped from quoted text when following up
• Raised the default read timeout to one minute
• Removed some remaining LF characters in the text/plain part of messages with UUEncoded attachments
• Removing the signature delimiter in the composition window now correctly resets the color of the signature
• Rewrote parts of the inline encoding to extend minimal invasive encoding schemes and to fix folding/unfolding
• Shift+Tab, Ctrl+Tab and Shift+Ctrl+Tab now work in the composition window when the editor has focus
• Shortcuts keys on the NUM pad now work independently from the standard numerical keys
• Sorting by "From" now sorts on the posters name, not on the From header line
• Streamlined loading of articles with large single-part attachments
• The condition "If is marked for retrieval" in Views now also shows articles currently being downloaded
• The N-H-A buttons on the toolbar are now available in Gnus style mode
• The progress form is now shown when searching for text in bodies and the operation can be canceled with the Esc key
• The status line in the composition window now indicates which charset Dialog will use for a message
• Undo is now possible after reformatting the complete text in a composition window
• URLs can now have any length and will still be color coded
• X-Headers inserted by Dialog are now sorted alphabetically
• You can now set a view on a per group/folder basis in the group options dialog

Version 2.0.5.1 (Beta 28):

• Fixed "Check for new headers" function that was changing the local high marker for groups
• Fixed an error message when skipping to a HTML message
• Fixed a bug where Dialog picked the wrong attribution line for email replies to postings
• Added two inverse X-Face drawing styles
• Added options for painting styles of article headers with custom foreground and/or background colors
• Added option to turn of acronyms and smooth scrolling
• Column editors now won't change the widths of the columns any longer
• Made "Show monospaced" in the signature settings sticky
• A couple of minor fixes

Version 2.0.4.1 (Beta 27):

• 'Paste as quote' and 'reformat paragraph' now work correctly with Unicode characters
• URLs can no be up to 400 characters long
• The golden star sometimes didn't show up
• Internal formatting characters codes are now filtered for outgoing postings/articles
• Searching in the currently shown body even searched in articles beyond
• Searching in raw bodies didn't work
• When "Raw view" is active, search operations now apply to the raw bodies only
• Added support for non-numerical time zone identifiers, like PST, EST, MEZ, etc.
• Fixed sending of attached files in use by another program (e.g. MS Word *.doc files)
• Fixed the mouse gestures that were switched off every time Dialog was started
• Fixed the spell checker regarding single quotes like in "don't", "l'enfant", etc.
• The header list now correctly refreshes when using "Up to prev. message" and "Down to next message"
• When clicking on URLs, MsgIDs, emails, etc. Dialog sometimes highlighted text. Fixed.
• Articles with raw 8-bit subjects are now excluded from the "Start new new thread when subject changes" option
• Fixed error when loading score file larger than 64 KB
• Fixed a lockup that happened with some malformed email addresses
• Subject header was changed on fup's with some raw 8 bit characters (e.g. #128)
• Fixed qp-encoding of equality signs in outgoing emails
• Fixed: Deleting a Newsserver deleted Inbox of Identity with same descriptive name
• Keyboard shortcuts are now deactivated when typing in the spell check dialog
• Fixed: When 'Followup-To: poster' header was present 'From' address was used by Dialog instead of 'Reply-To' (same for "Mail-Copies-To: poster")
• Added support for local inline images in HTML messages
• Bodies are now removed from db when the attachment(s) were saved to disk automatically. The body pane will show where the file(s) were saved and as long as they are available at this position they are still viewable in the body pane.
• Fixed: Simply selecting a group in the group list left a *.ini file in the data directory.
• Fixed: Sometimes a few characters were cut from the subject when creating a f'up
• Fixed: Terminating Dialog while it was still starting up introduced problems with the db
• Fixed: Spell check dialog failed to select complete words with extended characters
• Fixed: When answering "No" to "Do you want to ignore these warnings?" when spooling a message, the message was spooled anyway
• Fixed character display for articles with "format=flowed" in the "Content-Type" header
• Fixed: Dialog is now correctly sending out a "QUIT" to the server after posting a message
• Changed: If there is no plain text version of a posting, the html version is now shown in preference over the raw version
• Changed: New scoring rules now get inserted at the top (when using "Add plonk rule", "Adjust score for poster...", etc.)
• Added: Mime types<->File extension can now be edited (mimetype.txt file in data directory)
• Added: Menu item "Special>Locate original post" to quickly find the original message from a f'up
• Added option: A message is no longer marked read immediately upon selection, but when the next message gets selected.
• The currently active article is now kept in view when a worker thread reindexes the active group
• Fixed: Importing mbox files sometimes stopped before it imported all messages
• Made importing mbox files faster
• Added option for direct delivery of email (using SMTP server from MX record lookup of recipients domain)
• Fixed error "Could not write the entire buffer to the underlying stream" produced by a log file function
• Worked on the GUI responsiveness again
• You can now display all headers for messages in the "Sent" folder
• Added acronyms feature
• Fixed: No longer adds carriage return after random signatures
• Introduced a simply intermediate backup scheme while sending messages. Dialog now will restore the draft(s) upon next start if the sending was interrupted for some reason (Window crashing, etc.)
• Fixed AV's with OnArticleListPaint, OnNGListPaint and message scripts
• HELO string used when connecting to SMTP servers is now customizable with a fallback to the local computer name
• Added interception logging when loglevel is "All debug messages"
• Removed the 40 character limit for POP3 Username and Password
• Made the "Mouse wheel scrolls window under cursor" option working in the composition window
• Fixed a bug that made SMTP connections fail if there was an OnBeforeSendingMessage script active
• "Reformat paragraph" now works with all custom quote characters
• Fixed caret position when deleting lines in the composition window
• Fixed wrap position in composition window
• Trailing spaces in (automatically) wrapped lines are now deleted upon sending
• References header now has priority over In-Reply-To header in incoming emails for threading
• Added a warning when the same group is entered twice in the Newsgroups field in the composition window
• Fixed: Changing identity in composition window did not change signature
• Fixed: "Mark messages without bodies read" in group options marked messages _with_ bodies read
• Reworked file flushing which should give better results when Windows crashes while Dialog is active
• Fixed: "Skip to next unread message" etc. put the first message in a group into the history
• Fixed: Outgoing emails sometimes disappeared with certain setup
• Fixed: "Auto mark read after X seconds" sometimes marked the wrong (freshly selected) message read
• Changed: If the body download in a group that has the "retrieve all bodies" option set, fails for one reason or another Dialog will now mark the message for retrieval, so you only have to click on "Get marked message bodies" once to get all missing
• Changed: Made "mark all groups read" faster when the "All" tab is selected
• Added smooth scrolling in the body pane
• Added single-key-read scrolling when a HTML message is visible
• Reworked some internal data structures; startup faster and less memory needed
• Fixed: Multiple addresses in To: headers (and other) sometimes displayed incorrectly when "Show all headers" was active
• Added a checkbox that switches between TTF and MSF in the Signatures settings
• Enabled printing in all groups and folders
• Fixed: Using "Create draft from sent item" created a second signature
• Added columns editor for NG and article list and for the headers visible at the top of the body pane
• Added option to draw tree lines and set the indent level
• Added Vincent hack for spacers with names (=folders starting with 3 underscores)
• Reworked *style* support (less false positives)
• Raw version isn't formatted now
• Fixed a bug resulting in headers and bodies getting out of sync
• The custom foreground and background colors for headers are now exchanged when the article is selected
• The message part tree now uses the colors from the body pane
• Dialog now gracefully handles a permanent corrupt fontinfo.dat file (font fallbacks are disabled in that case)
• Added wheel panning support
• Added "Skip to next thread" function
• Added "Reconstruct thread" function
• Changed the !setcolor behavior. !setcolor(teal;0) will result in a black (color value 0) background now; Use !setcolor(teal;default) instead
• Added support for Archive, Keywords, Summary, Expires and Approved headers in the composition window
• Reworked the "Skip to next new ..." functions a bit
• You can now specify default values for cc, bcc, archive, keywords, summary, expires and approved header fields in the identity settings
• Fixed a reg. expr. access violation
• You can now *add* newsgroups and email address to the respective input fields in the composition window by holding down Ctrl
• Moved the attribution line settings from the General to the Identity settings
• Dialog now allows cc/bcc fields to be set without the Email to field set
• The "new count" indicators in the group list now shows the number of new messages total, not depending on the active view
• X-Headers with no default content now show up in the composition window, so they can be set on a per-post base
• When a server returns "No such group" without the name of the group, Dialog now adds the name of the group to the error message

Beta 26:

• This version never saw the public

Version 2.0.3.1 (Beta 25):

• Fixed sorting order in ng list to subhierarchies after their parent hierarchies
• Fixed saving of order of columns in the NG and Header list
• You now get a message when you f'up to an article with a f'up2 header
• The watch/ignore propagation now depends on the group setting "Start a new thread when the subject changes" (it was never propagating states over subject changes previously)
• All messages are now shown in the system folders no matter which view is active
• You now get a warning when creating a draft for a read-only newsgroup
• The Read-only and Moderated flag for groups now get updated when you get the complete group list
• Read timeout can now be set by the user
• Added progress bars for the worker threads in the statusbar
• Fixed input of AltGr+Shift+C on polish keyboard
• When a "Get marked message bodies" job is cancelled, the articles now get their mark back
• Filtering by age and date fixed
• Reworked the color coding again to get URLs in quotes and signatures to work
• UTF-8 is preferred over UTF-7 in the default configuration now
• Fixed the color selector comboboxes to work correctly when you select "Other color"
• Fixed false postive attachment icon with begin ... end
• Fixed folding of subjects with encoded words when following-up
• You can't remap "Space" to another action any longer
• Fixed trimming of leading spaces when loading signatures from a file
• Mutipart postings are now marked unread with the first and the last part received, so you will be able to visually notice the start of multipart posting and the end
• When canceling a get marked messages job, the articles now get their mark for retrieval flag back
• Disabled suppression of quotes lines in the system folders
• Fixed the "Delete draft" option when closing a composition window
• Reworked the subject equality check once again
• The To: header is now correctly set even when there is no "@" sign in it
• Added a disconnect timeout setting
• Fixed filtering by age, lines and score with non-numerical filter words
• Fixed retrieving bodies when a script/scoring marks the a header read
• Fixed escaping of a single dot in a line when posting an article
• Fixed signature in default group options which was always reverting to [Default]
• Fixed copying of formatted text from the different fields to the clipboard (sometimes Dialog was trapped in an endless loop)
• Added a help menu item to quickly open Mantis
• Changed the way the signatures combobox works in the composition window
• Hopefully fixed the "article not available" problem by forcing a disconnect after posting an article
• Fixed the "Problem 112 while compacting the database" problem
• Fixed decoding of some malformed base64 encoded messages
• Added categories for groups/folders
• Fixed reformat paragraph picking up the last CRLF
• Fixed an av on closing when the Bookmarks window is visible
• Fixed scroll behavior of ng and header list with partially hidden items
• Made adding of "(was: ...)" when subject changes optional
• Fixed status window appearing minimized and not being minimized with Win+M and Win+D
• You now get an error message when saving an attachment failed
• Fixed calculation of average score and changed the way rounding works near a score of "0"
• Fixed composition window starting maximized when Dialog itself is started through a shortcut as maximized
• Fixed an email address display bug with brackets
• Fixed displaying of headers with false positive multipart articles

Version 2.0.2.1 (Beta 24):

• Reply-to and Followup-to headers are now correctly added to outgoing messages
  
• Fixed the thread priorities of the main and the worker threads (this fixes the slow retrievals for Hamster users)
  
• GUI is more responsive when getting headers for lots of groups. Only up to 6 worker threads are now created (not "running") at a time. As soon as one thread finishes, another 6 are created.
  
• Added support for *bold*, /italic/ and _underlined_ text
  
• The "unread" color in the panel above the body pane and the article list is now the custom unread color (it was hardcoded red before)
  
• New help links using the html file name like this: dialog.chm::/buttonscommandsandwhatthey.htm#Menusinthecompositionwindo
  
• ISO-2022-JP is now correctly handled as a 7-bit encoding
  
• Fixed the GUI to correctly display with "Large fonts"
  
• Now Handling a color coding bug in Japanese groups (look for error messages in the status window)
  
• Background color in the composition window is now correctly set
  
• Wider range of font sizes available for selection
  
• Text in the two panels above the body pane and the article list can now be selected
  
• Sample headers now re-retrieves previously deleted headers
  
• Signature is no longer cut when replying to selected text
  
• Fixed the sticking X-face when opening another group/folder
  
• Dialog now sends "localhost" in the Helo SMTP request, instead of the computer name
  
• Dialog now handles a missing Winsock2.dll gracefully
  
• Colors in the composition window are now correctly set
  
• Now *all* headers are correctly RFC2048 encoded, decoded and folded
  
• Reference line is now trimmed if there are more than 21 MsgIDs in it
  
• The subject line is now kept as it is with follow-ups (even if the original subject is raw 8-bit or otherwise broken), to guarantee correct threading
  
• When copying/moving articles inboxes are now allowed as target folders
  
• Added "Plonk subject" command
  
• Got rid of the space in the User-Agent header
  
• Added an menu to the 5-cornered expand button above the article pane as an alternative way to select the message part
  
• Replaced the regular expression engine with a working one and added a test field in the "Scoring and actions" window
  
• "Show all headers" (H) now shows the header field names formatted in bold
  
• Broken 8-bit postings declared as us-ascii/7-but now are displayed using the group's default charset
  
• Scripting added
  
• Fixed an AV when sending UUEncoded attachments
  
• Fixed QP encoding for emails
  
• Implemented markers in the GUI
  
• Added an option to autom. retrieve bodies when a watch flag is set (default is enabled)
  
• When searching for a MsgId, the active group is now searched first
  
• Profiled the main GUI thread again and made it a bit slicker
  
• Added pane selector buttons to the status bar
  
• Right-clicking on the ng and article list now selects the item under the cursor
  
• Image preview in the message parts tree can now be turned off
  
• Made some input field in the composition window comboboxes; this includes "recently used email addresses" for email input fields.
  
• Added automatically saving of attached files to a predefined folder as a group option
  
• "Get all groups" now deletes groups no longer available on the server
  
• Fixed a bug where double-clicking on a draft in the header list would open the previously selected draft, not the double-clicked
  
• Added a warning when trying to post to a read-only group
  
• Now showing maximum score in the header list for collapsed threads (underlined)
  
• You can no download articles by MsgId to any group, not just folders
  
• When searching for a MsgID and the article with this MsgID is hidden by the current view or filter it is now forced into view
  
• Find window now has a "Reset view first" checkbox (otherwise it is only searched in the articles available in the current view)
  
• Intro lines can now be composed from the complete Unicode set
  
• You can now score/set an action on score, e.g. "!retrieve Score %>1000"
  
• An additional blank line is now inserted after the quoted text when following-up
  
• Expanding/collapsing threads now keeps the selected articles selected
  
• Option to return to last active article between sessions added
  
• Fixed the long delay with sending emails on systems with antivirus software checking outgoing emails
  
• Fixed filename display for mime type "message" (e.g. for EZMLM digest format)
  
• Made the progress dialog stay on top of the main window, but no longer on top of all windows
  
• Added an option (default is on) to mark groups read even when there are no new headers on XOver
  
• Added visual down state to Views buttons
  
• Fixed the sorting by the date column
  

  Version 2.0.1.1 (Beta 23):
  First public beta release

  

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