Software update: Forté Agent 2.0 build 652

Of all the forms of communication allowed on the internet, newsgroups are probably the toughest. Although things like web pages and peer-2-peer programs claim the vast majority of internet users today, there remains a small group of users for whom the local news server is still the place to be, and a number of developers agree. One of those developers is the software company Forté, which has been publishing its successful newsreader Agent for years. Version 2.0 of the software was presented a while ago, since then the program has already received a number of bug fixes. The latest release, 2.0 build 652, adds a few more fixes:

• We fixed a bug that caused Agent to crash seemingly at random if the program was configured to login to an SMTP server with either “Username and Password” or “Secure Password Authentication.”
• We fixed a bug that caused Agent to crash when retrieving the body of a message containing a binary attachment with an encoded line longer than 8000 characters, if Agent was configured to automatically save binary attachments while saving bodies. (Messages are not supposed to contain lines that long, and are usually ill-formed.)
• We fixed a bug that caused Agent to crash seemingly at random after deleting messages, especially when multiple browser windows were open.
• We fixed a bug that caused Agent to crash if you attempted to save a duplicate URL to your Favorites folder.
• We fixed a bug that caused Agent to crash under certain cases when the Spell Check dialog was closing.
• We fixed a bug that caused Agent to crash if you replied to a Usenet message that had no Newsgroups header field and was stored in a folder.
• We fixed a bug that caused Agent to crash when importing messages that contained lines that began with the word “From” and were similar in format to the “From..” line that normally begins each message in a file.
• We fixed a bug that caused Agent to crash if you closed the Print dialog box when a radio button had the focus.
• We fixed a bug that caused Agent to crash when opening the Spell Checking panel of the General Preferences dialog box, if no default spell check language was defined.
• We fixed a bug that sometimes caused Agent to crash when launching a news URL passed to Agent from another program, if Agent failed to find the specified newsgroup.
• We fixed a bug that caused other programs such as Internet Explorer to report an error after successfully sending an email or news URL to Agent.
• Agent now reads and uses the settings for the default printer the first time you open the Print dialog box.
• We fixed a formatting problem in the MIME character set query dialog box that caused the first sentence in the dialog to be clipped.
• In the filter dialog boxes, it is now possible to insert a line break in the filter expression, by pressing the keys