nPOPuk Changelog

What's new in nPOPuk 3.03

Oct 3, 2014
  • A box to filter the displayed messages for quick searching.
  • Highlighting links and making them active in received messages (RichEdit functionality).
  • A message-preview pane.
  • Ability to supply your own icons.
  • Better support for Unicode.
  • The code necessary for SSL connections is built in; you no longer need to find the OpenSSL DLLs.
  • This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit.
  • This product includes cryptographic software
  • Option to set receive options (eg, number of lines to download on check) on a per-account basis, instead of globally.
  • Option to receive messages in reverse order (newest first).
  • Ability to delete all messages from the server without downloading anything first).
  • For Windows Mobile and WindowsCE devices, the ability to automatically activate the Wi-Fi connection to check mail.
  • Ability to ignore "Re:" or "Fwd:" when sorting the main window's list of messages by subject.
  • Ability to sort by the bare e-mail address when sorting the main window's list of messages by the 'From' column.
  • Navigation buttons to move forward/backward between sent messages in the Outbox.
  • An advanced options editor, to modify the global options by editing in a text window.
  • Ability to import Internet Setup files (*.ins) to configure accounts. Templates for popular mail services GMail, Yahoo! Mail, etc.) are available.
  • Clickable text in message body indicating partially downloaded messages (click to initiate full download) and listing attachments (click to open).
  • Ability to redirect messages (conditional on your ISP supporting this function)
  • An optional second pane in the main window to list the accounts (for easier access than the drop-down list).
  • A progress bar to graphically show the percentage of a message being downloaded or sent.
  • Search and Replace, with wildcards.
  • Reflow selection - to correct bad linebreaks, especially in quoted text.
  • Ability to Flag messages for follow-up.
  • Changes to the toolbars to add additional icons and replace grayed icons with ones that are applicable for the current mailbox.
  • Global filters - applied to all accounts.
  • Scrambling (ROT-13) to obscure mail data from prying eyes
  • Ability to handle embedded images when opening text/html messages in a web browser.
  • Auto-complete of addresses.
  • Indication of unsent mail (in the status bar).
  • Filter improvements: new filter actions to forward to a specified address or change the priority of a message; filter conditions for any address in the address book or one in a particular group, or for checking relative dates (N days ago).
  • Ability to salvage mail data already received if the connection is lost (wifi, dialup, or otherwise).
  • Ability to open attached messages in nPOPuk itself, including an ability to parse MIME-digests into separate messages.
  • Option to re-filter messages on full download. Improvements to the address book, including resizing the dialog and sort by column.
  • Support for PocketContacts on additional handheld platforms (WinCE), and the ability to add entries to PocketContacts.
  • Command-line options to send a message and quit, or to check mail and quit, or to close a running session.
  • Ability to suppress text in the forwarding and reply headers, if the corresponding header in the orignal message is blank.
  • Menu item to paste as quotation.
  • Ability to Find in the OutBox.
  • New options for navigating between messages.
  • Multiple saveboxes.
  • Support for MBOX-format mail files, including importing of mailboxes from other clients.
  • Menu item for backing up files.
  • Icon in the main mail list window to indicate messages that are multipart/alternative, generally meaning the only attachment is an HTML version of the message.
  • Rudimentary parsing of html-only messages to make them readable.
  • Ability to group addresses in the address book, and show addresses based on their group membership; further improved in 2.08 so one can set a group that is shown by default.
  • Overlays in the main mail list window to indicate whether messages have been forwarded and/or replied to.
  • Improvements to word-wrapping for English text as well as text in most European character sets (the original nPOP is for Japanese Unicode). Linebreaks no longer happen at punctuation or non-English characters, extra spaces at the beginning of lines are removed, and quoted lines are broken before having the quotation mark ("> ") added.
  • Correct indication of whether a message has been fully downloaded, even if nPOP is set to download only the first N lines. (Previously, nPOP would indicate partial download when set to download only N lines, even if the message was in fact shorter than N lines.)
  • The size column in the OutBox includes the attachments, so one can better estimate the upload time.
  • The message composition (Edit) window now has separate icons and menu items for "Send now", "Save to Outbox", and "Save and Mark" to send later (on the next update account); this replaces the AutoMarkSend global option found in previous UK versions of nPOP.
  • One may quote only portions of a message when replying or forwarding by selecting the desired text in the Mail
  • View window before initiating the reply/forward.
  • Dates now display correctly, regardless of the time zone of the sender and recipient. The date and time format can be set in the Global Options dialog "Other" tab.
  • When the Global Option "Include header lines" is checked, the View source option is used to view the header lines. Previously, in text-only messages, the headers intruded into the message body.)
  • Sent mail can no longer be edited.
  • The Reply-To address can be selected from a drop-down list.
  • Filters are now correctly moved with accounts when reordering (Move up/down).
  • Messages that include lines starting with "from" regardless of case) are handled correctly.
  • The Help/About dialogue now includes a reference to the nPOP UK Support web site.
  • New icons and toolbar button images.
  • A Mail Forwarding facility
  • Further improved over nPOPw v1.0.1.4 Beta 2, with the ability to forward the message as an attachment or in-line, with or without attachments, as well as additional Global Option settings, such as different headers for Reply and Forward, and whether to add the signature to forwarded mail.)
  • Global Options to allow:
  • Disabling of Warning Popup Boxes
  • Control of Mail List Sorting
  • An option to Save all working files without exiting.
  • Support for mail priorities (High, Normal and Low).
  • Support for read and delivery receipts.
  • In new installations, the quotation string for replies and forwarded mail is "> " rather than ">".
  • Many revised translations and corrected spellings in menus and dialogues throughout the program. (See also Section 5.)

New in nPOPuk 2.14 (Apr 20, 2010)

  • Program Code:
  • Updated: SSL code (to patch renegotiation vulnerability)
  • Added: feature to re-order the Outbox to keep drafts at the bottom
  • Program Interface Improvements:
  • Added: "Sort by" menu options
  • Added: "Save as" menu item for the Edit and Sent Mail windows
  • Added: Wildcard capability in "Find" and "Replace" dialogs
  • Changed: For WindowsMobile users, the toolbar buttons and bubble help have been revised to be more compatible with WindowMobile 7

New in nPOPuk 2.13 (Feb 4, 2010)

  • Program Code:
  • Added: SSL functions built-in; extra DLLs are no longer required.
  • Program Interface Improvements:
  • Added: Advanced Global Options Editor (Allows edting of the [GENERAL] section of nPOPuk.ini)
  • Added: "Find" and "Find Next" buttons to Main, Mail Edit, Sent Mail and Mail View windows
  • Changed: The Sent Mail window shows "Prev mail", "Next mail" and "Edit as New" toolbar buttons

New in nPOPuk 2.11 (Feb 4, 2010)

  • Mailbox Management:
  • Added: Mailbox Pane to the Main Window (May revert to the old Drop-down list if preferred)
  • Added: A Mailbox Summary dialogue. This allows various management tasks to be performed on selected Mailboxes and for each Mailbox displays:
  • New, unread and total mail
  • File size
  • Whether there is unsaved data
  • The Mailbox file name.
  • Message Management:
  • Added: Flag for follow-up function
  • Added: Global Filters
  • Added: Filter actions to set the priority or to Forward a message
  • Added: Find and Replace facility in the Mail Edit window
  • Added: Conversion of Content-ID attachments for embedded images in text/html (still viewed in external viewer, not natively in nPOPuk)
  • Message Editing:
  • Added: Facility to reflow text (Useful for correcting poorly formatted quoted text and predicting where line breaks will occur when the message is saved)
  • Program Interface:
  • Changed: The Address Book dialogue is now re-sizable
  • Added: Option to display cursor in the Mail View Window
  • Added: A simple progress bar on the status line that shows transmission of larger files
  • Added: New toolbar buttons
  • Flag for Follow-up
  • Find Next Text
  • Delete from List (Replaces a greyed out Mark to Delete button in Saveboxes)
  • Dialup Connect and Disconnect
  • Changed: Toolbar icons Mark to Delete and Mark to Download act as toggles

New in nPOPuk 2.08 (Feb 4, 2010)

  • Attachments:
  • Added: Attachments of the type message/rfc822 may be opened directly in nPOPuk (This is type of attachment is generated by nPOPuk when an entire message with its attachments is forwarded)
  • Added: The components of a multipart/digest message are handled seamlessly, as if separate messages
  • Added: Ability to shift-click on an attachment listed on the extended Mail View window Edit menu, bypassing the Attached file dialogue
  • Forwarding Messages:
  • Changed: The default action is to forward all attachments (other than text/html attachments) that have been fully downloaded.
  • Added: The original text may be quoted or sent as an attachment (or both!)
  • Added: Messages forwarded as an attachment do include any text/html part.
  • Changed: The default header for forwarded messages includes "From: %F"
  • Address Book:
  • Added: The entries can be sorted by column
  • Added: Ability to make an "incremental search" on either the Mail address or Comment column by typing a few letters
  • Added: On opening, the entries displayed can be limited to a named group
  • Added: "Jump 10 entries" buttons to the Address Book window
  • Other:
  • Improved: The Recipients dialogue, replaces the Cc/Bcc dialogue, allows To,: Cc: and Bcc: addresses to be selected.
  • Added: Option to display the Cc: line only if the Cc: is non-null in the header for Replies and Forwarded mail and when viewing message headers
  • Added: "Paste as quotation" option to the Edit menu of the Mail Edit window
  • Added: Setting (in nPOPuk.ini file) to warn, when nPOPuk is closed, if there are messages marked for sending or sending failed.
  • Fixed: Copy/Move filters are reapplied on full download of messages
  • Fixed: Many internal improvements in the code

New in nPOPuk 2.04 (Feb 4, 2010)

  • All user-data files can be backed up to a user-defined folder that also provides a quick way to browse archived mail.
  • The Mail View Window has menu options and keyboard shortcuts to permit Copying and Moving mail to and between Saveboxes.
  • New settings in the nPOPuk.ini file control what is displayed after mail is deleted, marked for deletion or where there are no further messages to view.
  • Additional command-line option to define the location of the nPOPuk.ini file. (This both allows mail data to be stored in a user's own area and inaccessible to other users of the computer and to install various nPOPuk versions on a flash memory device to use used on a range of platforms and accessing the same mail data.)
  • Multiple Saveboxes and additional mail filtering options that permit sorting of mail, on receipt, into user-defined folders.
  • An icon in the main mail list window to indicate messages whose only attachment is an HTML version of the

New in nPOPuk 2.00 (Feb 4, 2010)

  • Most html-only messages are made readable through stripping of HTML tags (May be reversed through a new nPOPuk.ini setting)
  • Ability to group addresses in the address book, and show addresses based on their group membership.
  • Overlays in the main mail list window to indicate whether a reply or forward has been executed on a message.
  • Correct indication of whether a message has been fully downloaded, even if nPOPuk is set to download only the first N lines. (Previously, nPOP would indicate partial download when set to download only N lines, even if the message was in fact shorter than N lines.)
  • The size column in the Outbox includes the attachments, so upload time can be better estimated
  • The message composition (Mail Edit) window now has separate icons and menu items for "Send now", "Save to Outbox", and "Save and Mark" to send later (on the next update of the account) (This feature replaces the AutoMarkSend global option.)
  • Option to quote only portions of a message when replying or forwarding by selecting the desired text in the Mail View window before initiating the Reply/Forward
  • On the Main Window, menu options have been added to change between folders.
  • The left panel on the status line now resizes. (This has no impact in the Win32 environment but improves things for users of platforms with a narrow screen width.)
  • Dates now display correctly, regardless of the time zone of the sender and recipient.