Software update: Popcorn 1.60

Ultrafunk is developing Popcorn, an email client for Microsoft Windows. Electronic messages are sent and received via the POP and SMTP protocols. Multiple accounts can be used in registered mode, in contrast to the feeware variant in which only one profile can check the mail. Version 1.60 was released a few days ago and has the following changelog:

New features:

• A simple address book has been added to Popcorn, accessible either from the main toolbar, the “Mail” -> “Address Book…” menu item, or from the “To:”, “Cc:” or “Bcc:” buttons and the “Mail” -> “Address Book…” menu item in the mail editor. Address book data is stored in the “addressbook.ini” file which is created and located in the directory where Popcorn is started from.
• Re-designed the mail editor to work with the newly added address book. The “+” (more) button to toggle on/off the “Cc:” and “Bcc:” fields has been removed, the same options are now available from the “Mail” -> “Header Fields” menu item. “To:”, “Cc:” and “Bcc:” buttons were added to insert address entries directly from the address book.
• Added detection and decoding of the “multipart/related” MIME type.
• Added detection and decoding of the “multipart/report” MIME type.
• Added an “Empty Local Inbox” toolbar button (Ctrl+E).

Bug fixes:

• Fixed a bug that caused Popcorn to crash when re-directing a message and sending it after changing the active profile/account. There are two “side effects” caused by this fix:
  • The complete header is always shown in the Mail Editor when mails are re-directed (slightly negative).
  • You can now change the content of the re-directed message, including header data, exactly what is shown in the editor window is sent to the recipient (very positive). This used to be read only…
• Fixed a minor bug in the quoted printable decoder.
• Fixed a bug that caused Popcorn to not decode base64 mail body content for the “multipart/alternative” MIME content-type.
• Popcorn now signals all child windows to properly close down if they are open when the application is exited. Some window size/position settings were not saved because the child windows were not signaled upon exit.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused the mail editor to display the wrong from address when it was opened if the all profiles window was being updated.

Other changes:

• The “From:” field is now always visible above the “To:” field in the mail editor, and it can no longer be hidden.
• All items on the “Mail Properties” menu in the mail editor has now been moved to the “Mail” menu.
• Cleaned up a few of the icon and toolbar images.
• The “File” -> “Profiles/Settings Info” message box now also displays the path and read/write access for the address book data file.
• Cleaned up some of the message send code.
• The “From:” address field in the mail editor is no longer automatically updated to reflect the currently selected profile if it is changed while the editor window is opened.
• Optimized user profile/account switching and management.
• Optimized and enhanced MIME parser/decoder code.