Welcome to QuickMail 3.5.3 For more information, updates, and technical support, please visit our web site at http://www.outspring.com. - - - - - - This file contains: * Installation Requirements * Installation and Upgrading Notes * Special Notes for Mac OS X Users * What's New in 3.5.3 * Revisions * Known Issues - - - - - - Installation Requirements * Mac OS 9.1 (or greater) or 10.1 (or greater) * 32 MB of RAM * 40 MB of hard drive space (Additional hard drive space required as mail accumulates) * TCP/IP network over Ethernet or dial-up PPP * For full feature functionality the client must be used in conjunction with QuickMail Server software. * If the Multiple User Accounts feature is turned on under Mac OS 9, QuickMail can only be installed by the owner or a Normal user. * QuickMail 3.5.x requires additional system resources to support the new HTML rendering feature. Some machines previously running QuickMail may no longer be able to support these new system requirements. - - - - - - Installation and Upgrading Notes * Before installing, we recommend backing up your QuickMail data. Your data is either located in the QuickMail Pro Data folder or the CE Software folder. * Before installing, you must logout of QuickMail and quit all other QuickMail-related applications. * Before installing, we recommend restarting your computer with all virus-detection software disabled. * If you upgrade from 1.5.4 and choose to convert your address books, you may need to reselect your default address book. * If you use the QuickMail Pro Menu, we recommend restarting your computer and rebuilding your desktop after installing 3.5.x. * The QuickMail 3.5.x Installer moves the CE Software folder into the Application Support folder. If you choose to downgrade to 2.x or below, you must move your CE Software to the root of the System folder. * QuickMail 3.5.x uses a new addressbook file format. We will automatically migrate your existing addressbook, but any changes made to the addressbook in QuickMail 3.5.x will not be visible when using QuickMail Pro 3.0 (and below). Any changes made after migration to the addressbook in QuickMail Pro 3.0 (and below) will not be visible when using QuickMail 3.5.x (and above). * If you are running a demo of QuickMail and have purchased a full-working copy, you can activate QuickMail by choosing the "Activate QuickMail..." menu item in the "QuickMail" menu. * For your convenience, you can register QuickMail by choosing the "Register QuickMail..." menu item in the "QuickMail" menu. You can re-register at any time. * This version of QuickMail Client requires users who do not use QuickMail Server to purchase an activation key. QuickMail Server users can activate without an activation key by choosing the option to activate using the server. To purchase an activation key, contact Outspring at http://www.outspring.com/contact/contact.html - - - - - - Special Notes for Mac OS X Users Moving Your Existing QuickMail Pro Data to OS X Immediately after installing and prior to launching QuickMail, you must copy your existing QuickMail Pro data to your OS X Documents folder. 1) Locate your existing QuickMail Pro data on your OS 8.6 or 9.x system. Your data should be located in your Documents folder or your System Folder. 2) If your data is located in the Documents folder: * Copy the QuickMail Pro Data folder to your OS X/Users//Documents folder. If your data is located in the System Folder: * Go to CE Software/QuickMail Internet/Users folder. * Copy the Users folder to your OS X/Users//Documents folder. * Rename the new Users folder to QuickMail Pro Data. 3) Make a backup of your original QuickMail Pro data (or Users) folder, then delete the original. 4) Launch QuickMail. Running QuickMail on Mac OS X and OS 9 If you are running Mac OS X and OS 9 and want to have your QuickMail data accessible on both systems, follow these instructions: 1) Create an alias of your QuickMail Pro Data folder located in your Mac OS X /Users//Documents folder. 2) Place the alias into your OS 9 Documents folder. Launching QuickMail at login [Mac OS X only] 1) Open the "System Preferences" dialog. 2) Select "Accounts". 3) Select your account. 4) Click on the "Startup Items" tab. 5) Drag and drop the QuickMail application onto the list of items that will open automatically when you log in. Optimizing Display Speed By default, QuickMail utilizes anti-aliasing when displaying text in the Message Browser. If you have many messages, you may notice a decrease in speed while navigating the list display. Navigation speed can be dramatically increased by checking the "Turn off anti-aliasing for faster text drawing" option in the Display preference panel. - - - - - - What's New in 3.5.3 * Switched to the MySpell spell checker engine and updated the dictionaries included with QuickMail. For instructions on how to install dictionaries for other languages, see http://kb.outspring.com/view_article.php?num=1930 * Fixed the bug where reported junk messages would reappear in the Sent folder when you rebuilt the folder index. * Fixed the bug where certain messages can "clog" the networker, stopping the downloading of messages. * Fixed the bug where the networker can crash with large text/html parts. * Fixed the bug where if AUTH CRAM-MD5 fails, and the SMTP server supports AUTH LOGIN we'll use AUTH LOGIN. * Improved handling of bad Content-Type and Content-Disposition headers. - - - - - - Revisions 3.5.2 * Improved networker stability when receiving HTML mails. * Fixed the "asked to register each time on startup" issue. * Now possible to specify SMTP port >= 32767. * "Address Book Updates" from QuickMail Server recognized in the stand alone message window even if the message was read. * Improved some interoperability issues with SMTP-AUTH. * Fixed "lost contact during address book upgrade from 3.0" issue. * Allow end user to activate the client via a QuickMail Server. * Improved interoperability with non-QuickMail POP servers. * Fixed the startup delay when using a non-QuickMail POP server. 3.5.1 * "Report Junk" feature which helps power Spamcaster(TM). Note: In order to save bandwidth, the client will just delete reported emails with over 1 MB of attachments. * Easy online registration. * New preference to delete attachments folder on quit (to save disk space). * Improved startup time. * Improved networker stability when receiving HTML mails. * Able to enter SMTP-AUTH password with non-alphanumeric characters * Able to enter "special characters" on Panther (OS X 10.3). * For SMTP-AUTH, now able to use a different Account and Password (instead of just the POP Account and Password). * Improved interoperability with non-QuickMail SMTP servers (like QMail). * Improved interoperability with anti-virus products (like Norton AntiVirus) that delete mail messages out from underneath QuickMail. * Templates listed in the message compose window will show the subjects instead of "xxx". * QuickMail Networker will no longer pop up alerts when QuickMail is not running. * added key shortcuts for "Mark Deleted" and "Unmark Deleted". * Finger notification now works on Mac OS X. * Improved accuracy of quick search of message subjects. * Improved accuracy of message subject sorting. * Improved handling of http: and https: URLs that contain "@". * Improved stability. * Improved addressbook performance, memory footprint and stability. * Warn and prevent against account names longer than 31 characters. * If a user's "QuickMail Pro Data" directory gets deleted, we'll recreate it on startup. * QuickMail Office users no longer have to activate. * A non-admin user can now use QuickMail even if it was installed and registered by an admin user. * Fixed crashers when the user is missing form files. - - - - - - Known Issues * You may experience a delay when first launching QuickMail, as it is loading the HTML engine. * Certain anti-virus software can break QuickMail Office features. * QuickMail does not purge the HTML cache file properly. * Under Mac OS 9, if you use F-keys to activate QuickMail, you must include a modifier key. * Account names cannot be longer than 31 characters. * Inline images in HTML mail will not display inline. * Envelope icon in the thread pane changes to "replied" or "forwarded" if you start a reply or forward, but then cancel. * Only the first 58 characters of a message subject will show up in the thread pane, and only the first 58 characters of a message subject will be searched in quick searches, full searches, for sorting and for client side mail filters. * QuickMail is a LDAPv2 client, and will not work with director servers that only support LDAPv3. * Return receipts are not triggered by the "message peek" window. They are only triggered by the stand alone message window. * "Address Book Updates" are not triggered by the "message peek" window. They are only triggered by the stand alone message window. * Quick Search searches email display name, not email address. * The QM Menu extension is no longer part of QuickMail Client. * QM Ticker is only available on Mac OS 9. * For more known issues, see http://bugzilla.outspring.com ============================================= (c) 2005 Outspring, Inc. All Rights Reserved. QuickMail is a trademark of Outspring, Inc. All other brand or product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. Outspring, Inc. Technical Support: techsupport@outspring.com 1-707-523-7713 http://www.outspring.com QuickMail 3.5.x utilizes Mozilla 1.0 code for HTML rendering and is in compliance with the license requirements for the Mozilla Public License Version 1.0. Modified source code is available on our web site: http://www.outspring.com/qmp/mozilla/Mozilla-QMP31.zip