Whatever's on my mind

Today the SquirrelMail plugin avelsieve happened to be released with version 1.9.8. Thanks and kudos to Alexandros who after so long time still was in the mood to put things together.

The new features promise to be amazing: a new user interface, much code rewriting, and an entirely new SPAM handling. Unfortunately after installing it my SquirrelMail installation went badly down somehow. While everything alse is delivered properly by apache2, SquirrelMail now runs into one timeout after another. I need to figure out what’s actually going on there. The error.log is quiet so far…

Anyways, for all you people who are looking forward to see this new fancy and shiny version in sid, I have to ask for patience. I think the package is ready but before testing no uploading! Until then you can (if you’re brave) test the package by installing it from

http://downloads.jhr-online.de/avelsieve_1.9.8-1_all.deb

And all you others just have a look at the changelog that’s probably (hopefully) hitting sid in a few days:

  * New upstream release
     + A large part of the code has been rewritten.
     + A new-style SPAM rule has been implemented.
     + A new, global Whitelist rule has been implemented, for
       the SPAM rules to take advantage of.
     + New, "Custom Sieve Code" rule has been implemented; this allows users
       to enter directly Sieve code snippets as a rule. (experimental)
     + Miscellaneous code movement and restructuring.
     + UI: The "Add New Rule" buttons are now links, and are displayed
       both at the top and at the bottom of the rule table.
     + UI: Major rework in the UI of both the Rules Table and the Add New
       Rule / Edit Rule pages.
     + UI: If a vacation rule is active, then display a notice in the
       rules table page and upon logging in to Squirrelmail, that reminds
       the user.
     + UI: Vacation options have been aligned properly; text has been
       changed accordingly.
     + Sieve: Vacation Subject is now supported.
     + New functionality: "Insert New Rule Here"
     + New functionality: "Move Rule to Position" (requires Javascript)
     + Avelsieve now highly recommends the use of javascript_libs plugin
       for some visual effects / UI improvements.
     + UI: Added new icons and used different ones, to improve usability.
       Icons are provided by Mark James' famfamfam.com.
     + UI: Added new icon "theme" based also on famfamfam.com. This theme
       is the default from now on.
     + UI: Removed unnecessary text / clutter from rules table page.
     + UI: The notify action options have been aligned in a table.
     + Added an LDAP Sieve storage backend, compatible with Sun Messaging
       Server's Sieve features.
     + The DO_Sieve_* backends should have a separate retrieve() method
       for retrieving the raw Sieve script. Currently, only the Managesieve
       backend has it.