Software update: Barca 1.1 build 840

Poco Systems, known for PocoMail, among others, has released version 1.1 build 840 of Barca. Barca is the counterpart of Outlook, where PocoMail can be seen as the counterpart of Outlook Express. There is a calendar, a planner, notes can be made and the program can of course handle e-mail. An extensive overview of all options is available on this one page to read. The changelog of the version 1.1 build 840 released a few days ago looks like this:

Added

• Drag and drop support of ICS/VSC files onto Barca to add them to Calendar and Tasks directly
• Export dates in UTC time format to Calendar Options
• ability to set the number of days and tasks shown in Today screen via Options > Calendar
• new redesigned Today screens
• option for recurring tasks to never expire
• ability to set the number of days and tasks shown in Today screen via Options > Calendar Options
• drag and drop support of ICS/VSC files onto Barca to add them to Calendar and Tasks directly
• Export dates in UTC time format to Calendar Options
• Layout tab to Customize window; allows selection of Vertical Index pane, new 2-line horizontal index pane mode and toggling of preview pane
• indicator for the number of new messages that arrived to the mailbox during last email check to that mailbox’s tab
• setting of Modified flag for PalmSync
• additional database fields for Palm sync and tracking file for deleted events
• new Mailbox Index display mode; you can toggle 1-line or 2-line index display from Customize Window > Layout tab
• new Copy To, Move To and Link To options to Address List right click menu, with the ability to copy, move or link addresses to both other books and other groups
• new mailbox selection tool when creating a filter

Improved

• Improved and redesigned Today screens
• mailbox index display
• data formats for future Palm sync support
• speed of deletion messages
• IMAP support for servers that had intermittent problems #1049
• Calendar data loading to be more flexible with malformed fields
• download speed of messages from POP accounts
• Outlook Express message import, much faster and more reliable
• message import overall for better speed
• Compose window auto-save to only engage when the user stops actively typing
• speed of marking many selected messages as read or unread
• speed of deletion messages
• display of message body snippets in Console and the mailbox index
• IMAP support overall, including transfer and login #1049
• Show Only bar behavior to improve selection on focus and to work better when ActiveFocus is enabled
• the Monospaced display when viewing plain text messages (wrapping will be disabled)
• performance or running manual filters
• manual filter logic to not move message when it is already in its destination mailbox
• error handling during POP email download

Changed

• internal references to PalmRecordID and CategoryID to strings to allow for empty values
• saving of deleted events to add PalmRecordID to CalendarDel.dat
• order of Calendar data loading during startup to fix some reported problems
• creation of appointments and tasks to default new entries to user defined Index font
• loading of calendar data missing font information to default to user defined font
• Show Only bar behavior to improve selection on focus and to work better when ActiveFocus is enabled
• (many changes) to the way recurring appointments and tasks are displayed, handled and processed
• to the POP and IMAP message download code to address duplicate message downloads when certain conditions occur
• Search Messages to Empty search results by default
• behavior when enabling image download to no longer toggle Online Operation #1105
• Copy To and Move To buttons in the Address Book window to allow the new functionality for direct copying and moving to groups, as well as books
• authentication mechanism

Fixed

• New Appointment and New Task menu items sometimes triggering the wrong action
• Contacts to be entered with both name and email address when adding appointments/tasks from email
• problem with unauthenticated SMTP sending IP address instead of computer name when doing ident #1119
• Encrypting/Decrypting messages to avoid decrypt options not always being shown
• option for recurring tasks to never expire
• problem with recurring tasks showing all of the pending recurring tasks in the Tasks pane
• compressing all mailboxes sometimes incorrectly flagging Barca as frozen
• display of certain HTML messages
• launching Barca or PocoMail the second time not always finding the right host application #1117
• memory not being released when minimizing to tray #1092
• keyboard shortcuts for Insert Date and Insert Time in Compose window #1100
• Select All in Compose window right-click menu #1061
• New Appointment and New Task menu items sometimes triggering the wrong action
• Contacts to be entered with both name and email address when adding appointments/tasks from email
• Encrypting/Decrypting messages to avoid decrypt options not always being shown
• problem with recurring tasks showing all of the pending recurring tasks in the Tasks pane
• compressing all mailboxes sometimes incorrectly flagging Barca as frozen
• horizontal index shading
• problems marking recurring tasks as completed
• recurring appointments starting in the past not showing up in the Calendar
• launching of certain web site links in the program
• being able to use right-click menu to Move Message and Copy Message to disallowed mailboxes like Today
• Planner sometimes defaulting to a really high year (like 9000)
• “cannot write to CalendarPlannerPrefs.ini” error on some installations
• download problems with some POP accounts downloading only headers
• Barca to be able to register itself as the default mailer
• problem causing duplicate message download when leaving mail on server
• Compose window Status bar to update all values ​​accurately
• problem that could lead to Search Messages window not finding messages
• Compose window view scrolling when auto-save is triggered
• Compose window locking up for a few seconds during message composition on very specific configurations
• New Mail mailbox no longer displaying newly arrived mail in certain circumstances
• viewing HTML message URLs when BASE URL contains location of a page, rather than a directory on the server
• a problem that could potentially lead to disappearing messages
• display of certain HTML messages
• launching application the second time not always finding the right host application #1117
• memory not being released when minimizing to tray #1092
• keyboard shortcuts for Insert Date and Insert Time in Compose window #1100
• problem with unauthenticated SMTP sending IP address instead of computer name when doing ident #1119
• Select All in Compose window right-click menu #1061
• problem with referenced images in HTML mail containing spaces
• reading HTML mail with remote images causing AV errors
• deleting mailboxes or submailboxes causing AV error
• Thread button to not show in views when not applicable
• downloading marked Newsgroup articles #1065
• using Classify as Junk and Move sending messages to Trash instead of to Junk Mail
• Encrypting Default SMTP authentication password in INI file; you will need to redefine it if used in PocoMail 3.1
• doing Save As from Compose window correctly saving message in text or HTML format
• AV error when initiating new message from Address Book view
• Find and Replace causing an AV error when text selected in Compose window
• incorrect display of Priority and Mark graphics when their respective columns are disabled
• Mailboxes right click menu to disable settings not applicable to special mailboxes
• List index error when deleting threaded messages #1084
• Contacts pane column sort indicators
• tooltip shown when hovering mouse over underlined sender names in mailbox index
• hyperlinking of multiline URLs to be more intelligent about where it stops linking
• Run Minimized shortcut obeying Minimize to Tray setting
• Import From Another Install to correctly locate previous PocoMail installation in the path box
• number of unread messages indicated in Mailboxes pane
• handling of Windows shutdown while the program is running
• Sync Index button in Accounts Online mailboxes sometimes not showing all messages available on the server for IMAP mailboxes
• Get/Leave/Delete Accounts Online buttons to correctly mark messages
• problems with retrieving IMAP messages from certain servers
• Accounts Setup window to remember its last position on screen
• running filters manually to correctly identify account that owns the message
• application switching when invoking Manual filters via Ctrl+F6
• Spell Check Canceled on Sending Mail dialog box
• message quote leaving out blank lines in certain configurations
• Hide on Minimize to properly handle maximized application window
• Import from another install to work between PocoMail and Barca (make sure to select the correct INI file type from the dropbox)
• filter message box not always being shown in front of the main window when new message is added
• quoting on replies when original message uses BlockQuotes (like AOL), best used with Re-wrap quoted text option
• to IMAP message downloading to address reported problems of hanging downloads, failed downloads, “account busy” messages when viewing Accounts Online, etc
• paranthesis to be treated as part of a URL when auto-highlighting
• problem with messages being displayed as blank when they contain invalid characters
• display of Sent column in Accounts Online mailboxes when syncing index
• problems moving address book entries from within Address Book (F5) window
• Access Violations when accessing SSL email accounts
• possible errors when starting another copy of the program while the previous copy is still closing