Development continues since the last release and we have some nice improvements and fixes thanks in no small part to feedback from the forums, email, and bug reports. As always thanks to everyone who supports the project. I am happy with the way things are settling down with the code but I plan on putting out at least one more release candidate before considering a stable version. The next release will utilize a new GPL'ed class for a few things, an HTML to text converter, thanks to a suggestion in the forums. It is small, well written, and available at http://www.chuggnutt.com/html2text.php. I have also added to SVN a rough draft of a new theme based on a design submitted in the forums. It needs testing and work but I hope to polish it up in time for the next release. Here is the breakdown of what is new since RC6:

    It has taken longer than I wanted to get this release out the door, mainly because some of the changes were bigger than I anticipated. Things are looking good though with lots of fixes and updates since the last release. Thanks as always to everyone who has been supporting the project with testing and feedback. Lots of bugs have been squashed and several areas have seen some nice improvements, like folder list handling and theme capabilities to name just two. I had hoped to have a new theme ready for this release based on a design posted in our forums but I am just not happy with it yet. I will add that to SVN in the next week or two once I find some time to whip it into shape. Here is the full list of what is new since RC5. If you give Hastymail a try we want to hear from you so check out our Contact page and let us know what you think.

    I had hoped to have RC6 out by now, but just have not had enough time. Development has been busy though and the main things I wanted to complete before the release are in place in SVN, so after a few days of testing I hope to get the next candidate out. Once again thanks to the folks posting in the Forums and Tracker, feedback and support have been great. While working on improving the theme system I noticed some duplicated code and spent some time unifying it, which is the main reason things are a bit behind schedule. Here is what is new since the last update:

  As much as I wanted to get RC6 out this past week it just did not come together. Development has been busy though, including a few additional bug fixes as well as some updates to the theme system. A generous poster in the forums put together a nice new interface design in a PSD file, and implementing the layout has illuminated some shortcomings of themes that are in the process of being improved. You can check out a screenshot of the current state of this new theme at the bottom of this post. Unless some new issues come to light I hope to have an initial version of this new theme done this week and RC6 out by early next week. In the meantime here is what is new in SVN since the last news post:

    RC5 has been out for about a week now and the feedback has been great. Thanks to everyone who has taken the time to test and report issues. We have a few fixes and updates in SVN already, and I think I am going to push out RC6 sooner rather than later (probably within another week). I am going to stop adding new features, except in plugins, and really focus on getting things stabilized. Here is whats new in SVN since RC5:

We are happy to announce that the fifth release candidate of Hastymail2 is now available. This version has a lot of great updates since the last release. As always thanks to everyone supporting the project with suggestions and feedback. Here is the change log for RC5:

     It has been another busy week for Hastymail2 development. Lots of testing is going on and several fixes and new features have been added thanks to great feedback. We have had a bump in traffic due to a couple of mentions on some moderately popular sites. Thanks to those spreading the word about Hastymail2, we appreciate the support. Here is what is new since the last update:

  It has been a busy week for Hastymail development!. The AJAX system got an overhaul and it's efficiency is significantly improved. Several small bugs have been fixed and a few features added, the most notable being IMAP UTF7 folder name support and the ability to forward a message as an attachment. A lot of work has gone into finally resolving some display issues that were causing problems with various browsers. Included at the end of this post are some screenshots of the latest layout in some different browsers to illustrate. Here are the details of whats new since the 1st:

    RC4 has been out for a while now and I am happy to say that we received some great feedback. Thanks to everyone who tried it out and posted in the forums or tracker. Several issues have been addressed and there are some changes worth noting in the code. The biggest updates are a handful of changes to address the amount of server memory Hastymail2 uses to handle a request. By moving the code into separate include files memory use has been reduced by anywhere from 1-3 MB at the cost of adding 1-2 more include files. Also attachment downloads now use a streaming model that should allow any size attachment to be downloaded without having a significant impact on memory use. Here is the full list of updates since RC4:

   It has been a busy January for Hastymail2 development. We are happy to announce that the fourth release candidate of Hastymail2 is available for download. This release contains several bug fixes to the core code with most of the new development going on in plugins. This includes some fixes and updates to existing plugins the most notable of which is event support for the calendar plugin, as well as 2 new additions since RC3, the "notices" and "news" plugins. Also the main javascript includes have been compressed and combined to reduce the overall page load time. Thanks to everyone who has provided feedback and testing. We appreciate your support. Read on for the full list of changes since RC3.