I am happy to announce that the third release candidate of Hastymail2 is now available. The rewrite of Hastymail began at the beginning of this year with the first SVN check-in date of January 9th 2008. I had hoped to have a stable release by the end of the year but we are not quite there yet. We have made significant progress however and I am really pleased with how things are going. Testing and feedback have been great and I think this is the best version of Hastymail yet! Thanks to everyone who has supported the project. Here are the changes since RC 2 followed by a link to download Hastymail2 at Sourceforge.

- Added a config option to alter the charset used for the IMAP search command

- Fixed a bug in the SMTP DATA command that was sending an extra CRLF which violates the SMTP RFC

- Added some classes and ids to the message control submit buttons to give themes more control over their appearence

- Added new theme "albook_sepia" thanks to Shawn Turpin

- Add missing stmp_starttls setting to the example config and fix a bug with the smtp_tls setting.

- Added Postgres support for settings and contact storage. Expected table definitions are in db/contacts.pgsql.sql and db/user_settings.pgsql.sql

- Added the ability it use pear DB or MDB2 libraries for DB support

- Added the ability to set a default email address for new users to the hastymail2.conf file

- Added a PHP CLI script to convert contacts from Hastymail1 format to Hastymail2

- Added custom header filtering support to the filters plugin

- Converted the filters and hello world plugins to use the plugin translation system so they can be easily translated for other interface languages.

- Added a simple plugin translation system. Details are in docs/plugin_languages.txt

- Added functionality to the main template to override the output of plugins to the main menu

- Moved the "Message Parts" link on the message view into the previous/next message part section

- Added database storage support for user contacts with a mysql table in db/contacts.mysql.sql

- Added the "tango" theme, thanks to Shawn Turpin

- Fixed a bug that caused the sort order of folders on the new mail page to be inconsistent.

- Expanded the default user options in the conf file to cover almost all of the options page settings.

- Fixed a bug that caused some outgoing messages with multiple attachments to not be saved in the sent folder.

- Update folder routines to handle subfolders whose parent folders are missing from the hierarchy

- Add missing interface string to translation files

- Fixed a bug that caused the timezone option to not be set correctly

- Fixed a PHP warning with strtotime when changing the default date format

You can download Hastymail2 from Sourceforge at:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=66202&package_id=296745