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Ver 44052, June 5, 2019

Added support for TLS 1.2 to the SMTP, POP and IMAP protocols and added support for
advanced cipher suites. TLS 1.3 has not been tested but may also be supported.

Ver 44051, December 7, 2016

Fixed bug that caused a password longer than about 55 characters to be sent to an
SMTP server as multiple lines by the kSendFile or kSendText function.

Fixed bug that caused some email messages to be marked as read when the brief (h)
flag was used with the IMAP (4) flag and the kGetMail function. The bug caused the
first messages to remain unmarked but all following messages were marked as read.
Per the IMAP protocol, messages should not be marked as read when the brief flag is
used.

Fixed bug in the kGetMail function that caused random data to be written to the
specified output file when the '4h' flag combination was used in the 'flags' parameter.

Ver 44050, September 14, 2016

Fixed bug in base 64 encoding that caused a long user name and password combination
to be sent as two encoded lines. The IMAP protocol requires that user name and
password responses be on a single base 64 encoded line.

Ver 44049, January 21, 2015

Fix buffer overrun problem that sometimes causes a generic system error message
when using base 64 encoding.

Extender can now provide more error information about severe system errors in
both the wwwbatch.ini file and the WinBatch 'More Error Info' error message dialog.

Ver 44048, July 11, 2012

Fix an attachment mixup problem in the kGetMail function that ocurred when
a single email had both multiple attachments and alternate text.

ver 44047, June 15, 2011

Fixed process heap corruption problem in the kGetMail function that caused
the extender to occasionally report a 1004 unknown system error.

Ver 44046, February 07, 2011

Fixed bug that made the 'kDeletePop3' function unaccessible.

Ver 44045, January 19, 2011

Removed restrictions on the length of text parameters passed to the
kDest function.

Ver 44044, January 05, 2011

Added a sixth optional 'connection security' string parameter
to the kInit function. If specified, this optional parameter
causes the extender to use either the Transport Layer Security
(TLS) or its predecessor, the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL),
cryptographic protocol for privacy and authentication when
communicating with an SMTP, POP3, or IMAP server.

The parameter accepts a blank string (""), "ssl", or "tls" as a
value. For most servers you can use "tls" when you need to
securely connect to a server. The "ssl" option is provide for
compatibly with legacy server implementations that may not
support the newer TLS protocol. A blank string is equivalent to
omitting the parameter entirely and indicates that no TLS or SSL
protocol is to be used with the connection.

In most cases you will not need to specify a port number in the
function's fifth parameter when using "tls" or "ssl" as the extender
automatically uses the default TLS or SSL port for both sending and
receiving email.

Fixed a bug that prevented the kExtra function's third parameter from being
used as the domain name in the HELO EHLO messages.

This version of the extender requires WinBatch 2004b or newer and Windows
2000 or newer.

Ver 44043, May 25, 2007

Fixed a problem with iso encoded Base64 header string.

Ver 44042, Mar 27, 2006

Removed a stray debug error message introduced in the 44041 version.

Ver 44041, Mar 17, 2006

Fixed a problem where doing an IMAP4 PURGE would redownload the
entire contents of the purged mailbox.

Ver 44040 July 28, 2005

Added ability to override domain info used in the HELO and EHLO
SMTP protocol messages as parameter 3 of the kExtra function. If
paramter 3 of kExtra is not blank and is not 0 then it will be used.
Generally it should be a hint to the mail server about what mail
domain to use.

Ver 44039 April 14, 2005

Fixed a possible bug introduced in the 10034 version that
caused a crash when trying to get header information with
IMAP4 in some cases. Hopefully this is a benign fix.

Ver 44038 Mar 31, 2005

Fixed an issue where if multiple file attachments followed a
multipart/alternative message block (i.e. message has both text/html
and text/plain version) then the names of the attachments were not
applied to the correct attachment.

The Postie extender has been updated to a new
format to allow more descriptive function names and
additional parameters. This version of the extender
requires WinBatch 2004B or newer to run. This
extender will not work on WinBatch 2004A or older.

In addition, so as not to affect existing scripts using
a previous version of this extender, the extender DLL
has been renamed to include a 44I in the DLL name
instead of a 34I. Old and new versions of this
extender can *usually* co-exist side by side.

To use the new extender with old scripts and with
WinBatch 2004B or newer you will need to change the
AddExtender line in the script to reflect the new DLL
name. e.g.

AddExtender("wwpst34i.dll")
should become
AddExtender("wwpst44i.dll")

Version 10037 13 May 2004

Further fix to the 10035 version. Attempting to save the Content-Type
information even at least the extract flag is set even if there is no
target file name specified as of yet.

Version 10036 6 May 2004

Fixed problem in marking IMAP4 email messages for Delete

Version 10035 22 April 2004

Added feature to accept Content Type: line without ;name= parameter as long as
some name has been assigned to the attachment prior to the Content Type: line.

Version 10034 25 March 2004

Fixed a bug caused by malformed content partitions and the Netsky viri.

Version 10033 15 July 2003

Fixed "Date Sent" header to compensate for daylight savings time.

Fixed kGetMail "d" option to not download entire message and just
delete the message. Note "d" option is multually exclusive to all
other options

Version 10032 04 Mar 2003

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Version 10031 28 Feb 2003

Fixed problem where machines that do not have "NameServer" or "DhcpNameServer"
configured in the registry, was resulting in a DOS box popping up and
running IPCONFIG /ALL to parse that information. The command window should no
longer appear on these particular machines.

Version 10030 19 Feb 2003

Re-enabled a number of options, e.g., the "h" flag for kSendText/kSendFile
and "n" for nntp posting, which were unintentionally disabled in the newly
migrated v10027-v10029 versions of WIL Postie.

Version 10029 07 Feb 2003

Added back in the Aug 17, 1999 fix for CGI incompatibility problem.

Version 10028 06 Feb 2003
kGetMail now correctly saves text/plain messages to an outputfile.
The "h" flag saves the first line of each message body to the outputfile.
The "f" flag saves the full message body to the outputfile.
The "r" flag saves the full message body and the headers to the outputfile.

Version 10027
28 January 2003

Ported the October 2002 Postie source code from Infradig into the
WIL Postie code.

Added ESMTP support to Postie. Use the "e" flag with kSendText
and kSendFile. Note that userid and password are required for ESMTP
posting to authenticate. Do not specify userid and password for
plain SMTP posting.

Added CRAM-MD5 authentication for ESTMP and IMAP4.

Changed allocation of memory in kGetMail so now memory is allocated
dynamically, and download sizes are no longer limited. Now the
"Holding buffer size exceeded" message should no longer appear.

Added "f" (full headers) flag to the kGetMail function.

Version 10026
2 January 2002

Fixed kGetMail so that port number can be reset to the port
thru which the user wants to receive the downloaded email messages.

Fixed priority settings in kSendText and kSendFile. In v10026,
when neither the "1" (high priority) or "2" ("low priority")
flags are set, the default "normal" flag gets set, and, in so doing,
the "X-Priority" and "Importance" headers now are correctly set to
"normal" (these headers weren't showing up for the case when neither
the 1 or 2 flags were set in prior versions of the extender.)

Version 10025
18 December 2001

Added 'q' option to automatically decode headers with
?charset?q?text?=content.

Version 10024
3 December 2001

Fixed kGetMail delete flag so that it is reset to 0 after each
kGetMail call, so that subsequent kGetMail calls do not continue
to delete POP3 email messages.

Version 10023
2 October 2001

Fixed kManageImap so that it did not purge all Inbox messages
when used in the same script as kGetMail with the delete flag set.

Version 10022
31 May 2001

Added more fixes to kManageImap4 for purge operation, which
was GPFing because sufficient memory had not been allocated
to return the message string.

Version 10021
24 May 2001

Fixed a bug introduced by the fix to kManageImap4. A little cut
and paste operation went awry, but now the mail messages are
again getting returned to the message buffer in kGetMail.

Version 10020
16 May 2001

Fixed the kManageImap4 function, which was GPFing when purging
large mailboxes. The memory allocation for this function
has been increased to 640K.

Version 10019
26 Apr 2001

Added "d" option for dsn (request delivery status notification)
& "m" option for mdn (request mail disposition notification)
features to kSendText and kSendFile functions.

Added "c" option to kGetMail to return a receipt when retrieving
mail from a server that has either a dsn or mdn request in it.

Version 10018
16 Apr 2001

Made another change to kGetMail to clear the delete flag.

Version 10017
13 Apr 2001

Fixed problem wherein if you set the delete flag in kGetMail
and then ran subsequent kGetMails in a loop NOT setting the
delete flag, the delete flag never actually got cleared.

Version 10016
16 March 2001

Added error checking for the following illegal specifications:

pat|nopat - Illegal to have both pat and no pat; they're
mutually exclusive.

pat| - Don't follow pat with a vertical bar.

|"" - Illegal to have null string for nopat.

Version 10015
20 Feb 01

Changed X-mailer text to:
"X-Mailer: WIL Postie Extender www-winbatch-com"
so that the header info doesn't act like a link.

Fixed Postie so that email addresses starting with
'!', e.g., !looloo@winbatch.com, will now be processed.

Version 10014
Fixed Postie so that tabs in messages, attachments, and headers
are not converted to spaces.

Version 10013
Dec 12, 2000

The POSTIE extender has been updated to a few format
to allow more descriptive function names and additional
parameters. This version of the extender requires
WinBatch 2001A or newer to run. This extender will
not work on WinBatch 2000C or older.

In addition, so as not to affect existing scripts using
a previous version of this extender, the extender DLL
has been renamed to include a 34I in the DLL name
instead of a 32I. Old and new versions of this
extender can *usually* co-exist side by side.

To use the new extender with old scripts and with
WinBatch 2001A or newer you will need to change the
AddExtender line in the script to reflect the new DLL
name. e.g.

AddExtender("WWPST32I.DLL")
should become
AddExtender("WWPST34I.DLL")

Version 10012
Nov 27, 2000

Fixed Postie so that the "\" backslash character is not
stripped off in text of To, From, Subject, Msgs, Files, etc.

Version 10011
Oct 10, 2000

Dispensed with the limitation on 255 length limitation in
parameters in kSendText, kSendFile and kDest.

Version 10010
Sept 12, 2000

Added "t" (-text) option to kGetMail to allow for text
attachments to be written in native mode (the default
setting is binary mode.)

Version 10009
May 24, 2000

kSendText/kSendFile now work during daylight savings time.
In previous versions, all messages sent via these functions
were showing up with a time stamp that is the sending
computer's time +1 hour.

Version 10008
Mar 7, 2000

Removed IMAP4 posting from source code and help files.
From RFC 2060: IMAP4rev1 does not specify a means of posting mail;
this functionality is handled by a mail transfer protocol such as [SMTP].

Version 10007
Mar 6, 2000

Attachments now get CRLFs added to end of lines.

Version 10006
Feb 23, 2000

kStatusInfo now returns the status of the previous statement executed
and any error information.

Version 10005
Feb 21, 2000

Added base64 encoding of Subject, To, and From headers along with the
message body.

Version 10004
Feb 14, 2000

Added kExtra function, to specify charset and base64 encoding.

Attachments now get written out to the current working directory
regardless of whether or not the second parameter, outputfile, is
specified.

See help file for details about how attachments are handled when using
the "raw" and "headers" options.

Version 10003
Sep 7, 1999

New version of Postie extender posted. This posting of Postie publishes
the procedures that allow you to purge the postings that you are
potentially perusing.

Version 10002
Aug 17, 1999

New version of Postie posted. Works with WebBatch now.

Version 10001
Aug 16, 1999

Released Postie v10001, which increases the second parameter
in kSendText (the message body) to an unlimited size (only limited
by your machine's memory).

Version 10000
August 13, 1999 03:51 PM

Initial Release.

*** NEW POSTIE EXTENDER v10000***

The Ultimate Internet Email extender. Sends and receives POP3, IMAP4, and NNTP (newsgroup) email.
Able to send and receive mime or uuencoded attachments.

Article ID:   W14187

Filename:   !!NEWSFLASH!!.txt

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Last Updated: 2019:06:05:13:39:30

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