[Pimmy] Geminisoft Pimmy 3.4.2 beta 10

[Angelo Donatiello]

Hello,

one more Pimmy beta. We found some bugs (a couple of them very serious -
see below) so we fix italian and english versions. To reflect italian
version we are changing version number to 3.4.2, but keep beta numbering.

IMPORTANT: on beta 9 messages on server could be deleted after downloading
only a preview, so we suggest everybody to download and install this beta
10.

Additional information and download instructions are available at our
international site: http://www.geminisoft.com/geminisoft.eng/

Corrections:

- IMPORTANT: in some situation Pimmy downloaded only a preview of the
messagge but deleted the message from the server. This occured when both KB
limit on mailbox and filters were set on a mailbox.
- In some countries time-stamp on message was not correct (due to incorrect
time-zone information).
- A progressive memory leak has been fixed.
- IMPORTANT: new filter wizard: actions for "download and leave on server"
and "download and delete from server" were exchanged, so that the action
that should not delete the message, actually deleted it.
- IMPORTANT: when opening a message from a folder and saving it to another
folder, the message was saved to the original folder, replacing the old
one.
- Several errors on address book import/export have been fixed.
- References field on message was copied just opening and saving a message
or opening and sending a message, instead of doing it just when replying to
a message.
On new filter wizard the meaning of "all mailboxes" and "no mailboxes" was
exchanged; the same occured for newsgroups.

We are waiting for your suggestions and bug report as well as translation
mistakes. Thanks to everyone for supporting us.

Angelo & Antonio
www.geminisoft.com

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[John Fitzsimons]

Hello,

one more Pimmy beta. We found some bugs (a couple of them very serious -
see below)

< snip >

Wow ! Not too many software writers admit to serious bugs. Well done.
Nice to see you have fixed them as well.

Additional information and download instructions are available at our
international site: http://www.geminisoft.com/geminisoft.eng/

We are waiting for your suggestions and bug report as well as translation
mistakes. Thanks to everyone for supporting us.

If it does't yet provide this then, in view of people's email boxes
getting filled up with the Microsoft Swen Trojan, I suggest you
consider incorporating :

(A) Polling. Checking the server every "x" minutes.

(B) Filtering by attachment/size eg. attachment and size >140K and
<160K.

(C) Automatic (NOT manual) deletion from server as a result of (A) and
(B).


Regards, John.

 

[Digital Pasta]

< snip >

Wow ! Not too many software writers admit to serious bugs. Well done.
Nice to see you have fixed them as well.




If it does't yet provide this then, in view of people's email boxes
getting filled up with the Microsoft Swen Trojan, I suggest you
consider incorporating :

(A) Polling. Checking the server every "x" minutes.

It does this already: Server, Properties, Check Every nn Minutes.

 

[Angelo Donatiello]

Wow ! Not too many software writers admit to serious bugs. Well done.
Nice to see you have fixed them as well.

Thanks John.

If it does't yet provide this then, in view of people's email boxes
getting filled up with the Microsoft Swen Trojan, I suggest you
consider incorporating :

(A) Polling. Checking the server every "x" minutes.

Yes, it already does that using mailbox/newsgroup properties.

(B) Filtering by attachment/size eg. attachment and size >140K and
<160K.

Many things may be done using filters, you can check on many fields.
Unfortunately message's size can only be correctly used to limit KB to
download. So it's necessary to distinguish virus by other means (subject,
contents, ...).

(C) Automatic (NOT manual) deletion from server as a result of (A) and
(B).

This can be easily done using filter, as well as moving messages to a
folder, leave them on server, etc.

Bye,

-angelo-
www.geminisoft.com

 

[John Fitzsimons]

Hello,

one more Pimmy beta.

Additional information and download instructions are available at our
international site: http://www.geminisoft.com/geminisoft.eng/

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Very good. Seems much better than last time I looked at it. The
filters are already pretty good but I have a suggestion and a few
queries.


(1) In a future version please consider filtering on;

(A) Emails with attachments

and/or

(B) Emails within certain sizes eg >140K and <160K.


(2) I tried to use a Mailwasher filter in Pimmy BUT couldn't quite get
things right. Perhaps someone can point out what is wrong and/or give
a "how to" to translate the Mailwasher filter for Pimmy use ?


Here is the Mailwasher filter :

If the Body contains

"^content-type:.*(exe|com|pif|bat|scr|zip|cmd)"*$"

and the To field contains

"User|Client|Consumer|Partner|Customer|Commercial|Corporation|Microsoft|MS"

then mark the message as mail to be deleted.


Here is my (failed ?) attempt to put that in Pimmy :

http://members.optushome.com.au/jfweb/pimmy2.jpg


The error message was of no help at all as there wasn't a "help"
button or an F1 answer.


Mailwasher filters on the "body" of an email. I don't see a "body"
option in Pimmy. Is the "text" option meaning the body of an email ?

Or doesn't Pimmy filter on the contents of an email ?

As regards the "chat" function in Pimmy. Am I right in thinking there
is no security ? One has to leave ports open ? I don't see and
provision for users to use a password to connect to each other.

Any/all help regarding any/all of the above appreciated.


Regards, John.

 

[Antonio Donatiello]

(1) In a future version please consider filtering on;

(A) Emails with attachments

Good idea. At this moment you can filter on header "Content-Type" looking
for the word "multipart".
In Pimmy add a new rule like this:

What to look for: one of words
... words: multipart
Where look for: Details (header)
... header: Content-Type

(B) Emails within certain sizes eg >140K and <160K.

OK, this is already in the wish list, thanks.

"^content-type:.*(exe|com|pif|bat|scr|zip|cmd)"*$"

Pimmy has regular expressions but does not suport "|" or operator inside (I
add in the wish list). You should add one rule for each word (exe, com...).

"User|Client|Consumer|Partner|Customer|Commercial|Corporation|Microsoft|MS"

Here you can use "one of words" function.

http://members.optushome.com.au/jfweb/pimmy2.jpg

1) Text wildcards support only ? e * with the meaning similar to "file
wildcards". Wildcards are for persons that do not know regular expressions.
In your example you should use regular expression, but as I told above
Pimmy does not support "OR" operator. See help for all details.

The error message was of no help at all as there wasn't a "help"
button or an F1 answer.

No help is available on error message box but please refer to the beginning
of help, filters (press F1 in filters window).
The error indicates that you have to put AND before the rules and the rules
under the AND at "right". Like this:

AND
RULE 1
RULE 2
...

You can move the rules around the filter with arrows in the toolbar.

For example if you want write this expression:

(Rule1 and rule2) or (rule3 and rule4)

you must write:

OR
AND
RULE1
RULE2
AND
RULE3
RULE4

The rules at first level are in OR.

Mailwasher filters on the "body" of an email. I don't see a "body"
option in Pimmy. Is the "text" option meaning the body of an email ?

Yes, text is the body. If you put a rule on text (or "subject or text")
Pimmy downlads the body of the email. If you put a rule only on subject or
any other header field pimmy download only the headers of the email.

As regards the "chat" function in Pimmy. Am I right in thinking there
is no security ? One has to leave ports open ? I don't see and
provision for users to use a password to connect to each other.

Chat is very simple and is essentially for LAN users. At first RUN chat is
not available, all ports are closed. If you activate the chat Pimmy opens
TCP port and "listen" for calls. If any other Pimmy user calls you via your
IP address or network name Pimmy opens chat window. No user, no password
but you see the network name or tcp/ip address of the other person.

Sorry for my english. If you have problem please refer to our web support
page on www.geminisoft.com (follow international link) or select pimmy menu
"? / Support" or write us using pimmy menu "? / Write to Geminisoft". Feel
free to write anywhen.

 

[Alan]

:

Hello,

one more Pimmy beta. We found some bugs (a couple of them very serious -
see below) so we fix italian and english versions. To reflect italian
version we are changing version number to 3.4.2, but keep beta numbering.

One thing I would like to see added at some point is a way to know
if i have replied to a email or not.

Alan.

 

[Angelo Donatiello]

One thing I would like to see added at some point is a way to know
if i have replied to a email or not.

We will add your request to our wish-list. At the moment as you probably
notice Pimmy even does not mark individual message as read or not read...
so we have to work on that. Thanks,

-angelo-
www.geminisoft.com