Mailings - 1.3

• The recipient/sender addressing methods have been "decoupled". This means that you can now mix and match the previous forms of addressing. For example, you can use Address Book to specify the recipients and manually enter the name and address of the sender.

• The generation of the Message-ID header has been changed to increase compatibility with more mail servers. It now has the sender's email address domain name appended to the ID. The ID itself is generated from a UUID.

• Mail server passwords are no longer saved to preferences files or inside Mailings documents. For security they are now saved as "application passwords" in the default Keychain (under the name "Mailings"; use Keychain Access to view them.)

• A new preference enables ISO-8859 text encoding (off by default). This will apply to: message subject, to and from fields, as well as the plain text alternative and preamble (quoted-printable support added).

• The progress sheet has been enhanced. In particular it now displays more status messages, and percent complete for larger messages (like those with attachments).

• A new preference specifies two methods of handling relative URL's in HTML documents: base tags vs. relinking. Base tags are the default since this method requires less processing.

• MIME-suffix mapping has been improved, and determination of MIME type in cases where there is no suffix, or the system MIME table has no entry, has been improved (this is relevant for attachments). In particular vCard and disk image attachments now work.

• The sender value is now displayed on the (new) "Me Card" tab.

• The path to the selected import file is now displayed on the (new) "Import" tab.

• After an import succeeds Mailings automatically opens the "Recipients" sheet for confirmation (feedback).

• The attachments list now has a "Size" column that displays the file size of the (unencoded) attachment. It also now shows the total size of all attachments.

• More "default" preferences are stored (these are used to set the values of new documents): Use organization name, Name and Email on the (new) "Manual" tab for sender addressing, and the current Address Book group and address type on the (new) "Group" tab for recipient addressing.

• The log file format has been improved: It now includes a "header" that displays information about the mailing.

• The "Refresh" button on the Mailer window has been removed. Mailings now updates automatically if Address Book entries have changed, so there is no need for a refresh button.

• "Binhex" encoding of attachments has been added in order to preserve any existing resource forks of the files.

• The previous version contained a bug which could cause Mailings to freeze for about 60 seconds on start up if you were not connected to a LAN.

• Some users were crashing when Mailings downloaded web pages or contacted the server to determine document MIME type.