What's New in Version 2.0
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Major Changes in Latest Releases
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Only the most significant feature changes are listed under this
topic. See the next main topics for a more comprehensive explanation
of the changes.

Mailbag v2.0 (released: September 28, 2000)
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* Now reads Outlook Express 5.x, Netscape 6, The Bat! v1.42+,
  Forte Agent, and Poco mailboxes.
* Improved loading of large Netscape, Calypso, and FoxMail
  mailboxes.
* Added tools and options to archive/extract message attachments.
* Mailbag archive mailboxes can be saved in compressed format to
  save disk space.
* New wizards help make setting filters and searches easier.


Changes in Version 2.0
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* Added support for Outlook Express 5/5.5, Netscape 6, The Bat!
v1.42+, Forte Agent, and Poco mailbox files. 

* Added tools and options to handle message attachments. Attachments
can now be easily archived and extracted from messages. See  menu
commands "Tools|Extract Attachments" and "Tools|Open Attachments
Folder", and settings on the Messages tab in the Options dialog box.

* Added an option to create compressed archives. See "Compress
messages" on the Messages tab in the Options dialog box.

* Added new selection-script wizard as an alternative to the
standard Match and Filter dialog boxes. The default type of dialog
can be set through the Options dialog box on the new Tools tab.

* Added new menu command: Tools|Statistics|Mailer. When you activate
it, Mailbag will analyse the X-Mailer field (or other sections if
absent) in each message header to provide a count of how many people
are using each of the detected email clients. The field content is
striped based on the entries in the X-Mailer.lst file. Only one
message per email address is taken into account and outbound
messages are ignored.

* Added menu command Edit|Select Duplicates to select duplicate e-
mails (those that have the same Message-id field).

* Added option to keep all messages in memory (see "Keep messages in
RAM" on Advanced tab in Options dialog box). When enabled, mailboxes
take longer to load and use up more memory. The advantage with this
setting is that Mailbag does not have to reload a viewed mailbox
each time the email client modifies it. Also, message display and
processing like filtering and searching are much faster.

* Better support for the more unusual date formats some mailers
create.

* You can resize-to-fit columns by double-clicking on the column
separator in the grid header.

* You can delete scripts and templates by holding down the Delete
key when clicking on the menu item.

* New method used to load Netscape, Calypso, and FoxMail mailboxes.
Mailbag now uses much less memory to load large mailboxes. Feedback
from Netscape and FoxMail users on opening mailboxes larger than 1
MB would be much appreciated.

* Added a field "Must contain" in the "Open Folder" dialog box. When
used, Mailbag will only open mailboxes that contain the specified
text. If the text is all in lowercase, the search will be ignore
case, otherwise it will be case sensitive. This new setting is
useful if you are searching for messages that contain a specific
text and you want to limit the number of mailboxes opened. Note that
to ensure optimum speed, Mailbag looks for the literal text without
parsing the contents of mailboxes. So, if you are searching for the
Swiss name "Genève" and it is contained in an HTML message as
"Gen&egrave;ve", there is no match. However, the word would be
correctly matched by using the other search tools in Mailbag because
the text is parsed and special characters are converted.

* Added a setting called "Split multiple addresses" on the General
tab in the Options dialog box. It is unchecked by default. When
unchecked, Mailbag shows each email containing multiple addresses
in the "To" field in a single row in the grid. When checked, the
behavior corresponds to that of previous releases, which only
display one address per row.

* When you specify a selection criteria in the Startup wizard,
Match, and Filter dialog box, that contains uppercase characters,
Mailbag will perform a case sensitive search. If the text is all in
lowercase, then the search will only be case sensitive if you
specifically select that option.

* The Match and Filter dialog box now adds an extra button labeled
Criteria, which lets you clear the fields, copy/paste criteria from
the Clipboard, and save/restore them from disk. The text copied to
the Clipboard or on disk can be used in scripts.

* Bad dates are now displayed blank instead of showing something
like year 1899.

* The Startup Wizard has been renamed Mailbox Wizard, and the
command has been moved from the Help menu to the Tools menu.

* The Mailbox Wizard no longer closes mailboxes that are already
open.

* Fixed a problem with old Compuserve addresses that contained a
comma. Mailbag now treats these as a single address instead of
splitting them in two.

* Fixed Intellimouse-wheel bug in message windows, which caused
Mailbag to freeze.

* Fixed a bug that could cause an Access Violation error when trying
to copy or paste data in some of the controls.

* Fixed problem that sometimes allowed duplicate emails to be saved
in Mailbag archives.

* Eudora: multiple address books are no longer treated as mailboxes
when opening folders.

* Other minor bug fixes and improvements.


Script Language
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* Changed the extension of script files from .scr to .mbs to avoid
conflicts with screen savers. This update will automatically rename
the files for you.

* Added command to extract attachments. It extracts/copies
embedded/external attachments from the selected messages in the
active or specified grid. If no messages are selected, the command
will scan through all the listed messages. Attachments are
automatically saved in the Attachments subdirectory, unless you
specify an alternative DestDir folder. If you want to prompt the
user for a folder name, use "?" for the DestDir parameter. The
current grid is processed unless you specify another grid through
the ViewName parameter. Valid values for ViewName are: Default,
MainGrid, or SubsetGrid. Syntax:
ExtractAttachments [DestDir] [ViewName]

Examples:
ExtractAttachments "C:\Temp" MainGrid
  All the attachments contained in the message selection from the
  main grid are saved to the C:\Temp folder.

ExtractAttachments ?
  All the attachments contained in the message selection from the
  current grid are saved to the folder chosen by the user.

* Added new script command to return the path to the Mailbag
Attachments folder:
{AttachmentsPath}

* Added new script command to return the path to the Mailbag Samples
folder:
{SamplesPath}

* Added new option for the Select script command to select duplicate
emails:
Select Duplicates

* Added new command to delete disk files:
DeleteFile FileName

* Changed behavior of SaveMailBox command. It now appends messages
to the archive if it already exists. In previous versions, the
archive was replaced by the new one.



Mailbag v1.0 (released: September 16, 1999)
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First released version.

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