Software update: PocoMail 4.8 build 4400

Poco Systems has released a new version of its email client PocoMail with 4.8 build 4400 as the version number. For security reasons, the program has its own HTML viewer and does not use Internet Explorer components. In addition, VBScript or JavaScript cannot be executed and an extensive junk and spam filter is present. A license for PocoMail costs around thirty euros. Below are the changes and improvements Poco Systems has made in this release:

Overall Application

• Updated UI, visual tweaks and improvements
• Changes to the Resource usage: Windows Resource consumption reduced
• New and revised mailbox file handling code; most noticeable are improvements in speed of mailbox access, especially when running over networks

New Features

• The ability to drag and drop attached files from Attachments pane or from within the message, for both encoded and extracted attachments
• Drag and drop support added to Compose Window attachments pane
• Right-click context menu added to listed attachments within the message body
• Display of attachment size even if encoded inside the message
• Delete button in Compose window to discard the message
• New Save Message options under File menu

New Editing of Stored Messages

• New feature that allows editing stored messages, under Edit Stored Message menu in Message menu or index context menu (Edit Subject menus have been moved under this menu as well)
• Lets you edit messages previously received to trim out excess text, remove large embedded attachments or edit anything else in the message
• It also has advanced Raw View mode that provides direct access to the message in all its ASCII glory, from manually editing headers to modifying embedded MIME type declarations
• Added shortcut for Edit Stored Message Shift+Ctrl+E

Account Setup

• The ability to Copy Outgoing SMTP details from any account and quickly Paste them onto any other account for rapid changes of outgoing server
• New option on Incoming tab of Edit Account window: now you can opt out accounts from being processed through Junk Mail filters, for trusted accounts that get no spam

Quick Search

• New and more user friendly field for text entry
• Automatically shows other Focus options below
• Some old Focus fields have been eliminated
• New fields added that should get more use
• Completely revised rules for Quick search (Focus): they are now exclusive, so enabling “Unread” and “With Attachments” options will now show only messages that are both unread and have attachments, not either like before; this applies to every display option
• Ctrl+L will now also put the cursor in the text field (similar to browsers), ESC will clear the field

Search

• Search This Folder added to the right click menu of the Folders sidebar
• Search will no longer open Search mailbox if nothing was found
• Search history is now going to be saved
• New Clear History link added to the Search window

Changes in terminology

• the Bounce feature has been renamed to Redirect and Focus to Quick Search.