Soupermail

File Release Notes and Changelog

Release Name: 1.0.8

Notes:
1.0.8 is a major overhaul of Soupermail with a lot of new 
features added. 2 important changes are that it now uses 
the MIME::Lite module for generating emails (which should 
stop some attachment bugs) and it now has DBI/DBD 
database support.

Changes:
9 February 2001 . Vittal Aithal <vittal.aithal@bigfoot.com>

  o Release of version 1.0.8
  o Major change to the email routines. Soupermail now uses the MIME::Lite
    module to handle sending all its emails. This will hopefully clear up
    some of the file attachment issues.
  o Fatal error messages made HTML-safe.
  o Another pattern match error with the has operator fixed.
  o Counters in pipelines should be getting replaced now.
  o Numbers prefixed with a zero are no longer treated as octals numbers,
    but as decimals.
  o Subtraction of negative form values works in maths attributes now.
  o Extra attributes to [success|failure|blank]mime possible (Thanks to Chris 
    Croome)
  o File locking employed when writing to files to prevent data corruption
  o Uploads and generated PDFs can be split from the encrypted content of
    the form. (Thanks to Brian Kosick)
  o Additional PGP commands 'pgpversion', 'pgpuploads' and 'pgppdfs'.
  o Reformatted much of the code, because I like TABs these days :)
  o Added PGP 2.6.3 support in UNIX.
  o Attachments to mailing lists now supported with 'listattachmentX' and
    'listattachmentXmime' config commands.
  o Mailing list data addresses can now be pulled from a form with the 
    'listformfield' config command.
  o Includes can now take a type="html" attribute to allow safe including 
    of HTML.
  o Subject lines in emails can now be MIME encoded with the 'encodesubjects'
    config option.
  o <loop></loop> blocks allow pieces of templates to be repeated.
  o Fix for incorrect charmap mappings.
  o DBI/DBD database support!! There are now a set of new config options for 
    querying and inserting information into databases: 'sqlname', 'sqluser',
    'sqlpassword', 'sqlbindX', 'sqlrunX'. These allow one or more SQL commands
    to be run from the config file and the results placed in the templates.
  o Two more conditional tests have been added 'longerthan' and 'shorterthan'
    which can be used to ensure string values are not too long or too short.
  o Pull mailing list data from a SQL database with the 'listsql' command.
  o $maillist_ values can now be used on <only> block conditions. (Thanks to 
    Pico Lantini)
  o Failure errors can be forced in the config with the 'error' config command.
  o PGP can be forced into Canonical mode with 'pgptextmode'.
  o Default number of cookies increased to 9 from 3.
  o Fix for too strict checking of MIME types in config files (Thanks to Maarten
    van Oudenniel).
  o Properly use Content-Location: headers in MHTML email rather than 
    Content-Base (RFC 2557)
  o The 'precision' attribute can take negative values so the fractional 
    portion of values can be extracted (thanks to Maarten van Oudenniel 
    for the idea)
  o Maillist email is now sent out via a pool of SMTP connections if mailhost
    is provided - this *should* improve the performance of sending out emails.
  o HTML email Content-Location: headers can be manipulated with
    mailbase, senderbase and listbase config commands.
  o Changes to the installer to make it pick up on extra module requirements
    and keep in style with the install helper.
  o Soupermail will not read any files from a directory containing a file
    called 'soupermail.deny'.
  o When Soupermail is set in paranoid mode, it will ONLY read data from
    directories containing a 'soupermail.allow' file.
  o Fileto's can now be used as sender attachments.
  o List subjects can now use variable replacement including maillist_X data.