Abstract The HDS Mail for TeleFinder plugin is designed to allow users of TeleFinder to access their email through the Web Server. This means that people can access their email from anywhere, provided there is an internet connection available.
Cool Features (or features we think are cool) € Attachments that seem to be images (gif or jpeg) will be inlined when you view the mail (this currently only works for TeleFinder mail boxes, not POP3) € HTML encoded parts (text/html) in POP3 mail are shown formatted in the browser rather than as HTML source € Text that looks like a URL in mail messages is given a hyperlink € The flexibility of the template language € The ability to tell users that they have new mail while they are browsing BBS areas using the dir.spml or topic.spml templates (see the file Template Additions for more info)
Release History
0.9b6 € Fixed problem where mail paths would get confused if the user cache overflowed € Fixed problem where two random characters would get sent before quoting a TF email file, causing random problems with the user agent € Added way to download files that are in the mailbox (/mail/files/filename). This involved changes to the following files:bbrowse.mail, tbrowse.mail, download.asimail (new) € Fixed problem with a lockup if there was more than one cookie being sent to the server (thanks to Gary Clarke for this one!)
0.9b5 € Fixed problem introduced in 0.9b4 with not recognising users, or only recognising the first user to logon. This depended on what happened to be in unitialised memory at one particular point € Removed ugly 'auth' parameter from mailto hyperlinks € Added screenshot in documentation for setting up admin realm € Fixed possible crash if an RFC822 message has a Content-Type field with no qualifiers (eg text/plain rather than text/plain; charset=us)
0.9b4 € Fixed problem with wrapping long text lines from EMAL messages € Flush changes to resource fork after registering € US-English and UK-English language options (for Authoriszation) € New mail sound available on certain browsers (user agents) € Per-used option for plain binary transfers € Support for identifying web user agent, with name and version number extracted automatically € Regular expression string matching (using like operator) € Fixed typo on name of 'logout.asimail' file in 'bottombanner.mail' € Changed indication of read and unread mail from label 1 (Project 2-Brown) to label 7 (Essential-Orange). This change is to fall in line with the implementation in TF Server 5.6b4 and TF User 5.6b2 € Variables can be set to the empty string now € Fixed problem with expressions being passed to macros € Support for partial mail paths set in User Manager € Address book addresses with spaces and other non-safe characters are now properly escaped
0.9b3 € Fixed bug that would cause crashes if an RFC822 mail file didn't have a Content-Type field (thanks to Mikael Fredriksson for sending me a bug report so quickly!)
0.9b2 € Added more descriptive page titles to aid in traversing the web-browser history € Changed way 'read' mail is indicated [now it changes the item's label in the Finder-you can see the effects even in TF/User!] € The above modification greatly speeds up the display of the 'browser' € Fixed problem with decoding Base64 encoded messages € Added new handler extension '.asimail' for compatibility with WebStar € Fixed bug causing crash if plugin was run under WebStar € Support for international characters
0.9b1 € First restricted release (to SpiderIsland)
Regards,
Jonathan Paisley, Sysop Highlander BBS Developer of MaxTF Utilities including Online Assistant for TeleFinder Modem: (+44) 141 876 0966 mailto: jonathan_paisley@highlander.net.uk voice: (+44) 141 334 6359
