[tg-trunk] TurboMail 3.0rc1 - real world testing needed

[Felix Schwarz]

Hi,




TurboMail 3.0b2 got quite some testing by various users and we found some


I uploaded the files to http://www.schwarz.eu/opensource/misc/2009/turbomail/
until Alice can put them on the TurboMail webspace.

Changes since beta2:
- 'mail.smtp.count' was renamed to 'mail.smtp.max_messages_per_connection' to
  reflect the semantics better, default was lowered to 1 to prevent log
  warnings about disconnects
- 'mail.tries' was renamed to 'mail.message.nr_retries'
- Reworked UTF8qp extension which is now only necessary for backwards
  compatibility. We have a separate, less intrusive 'UTF8qp' charset which can
  be used for quoted printable encoding without the extension.
- SMTPTransport always sends ehlo (report with patch by akalias)
- SMTPTransport is more robust in case of connection drops (reported+initial
  patch by Ethan Frey)
- Fixed a couple of bugs in the Pylons adapter (reported+diagnosed by little
  wiki)
- Configuration option for message encoding is now 'mail.message.encoding'
  (was 'message.encoding') to provide a consistent naming (reported by Domen
  Kožar)
- HTML documentation is included in the release tarballs


Roadmap to 3.0:
- Give that release candidate 2-3 weeks of field testing
- release new versions if serious bugs are found
- write release notes for 3.0
- Remove all pointers to the old svn in trac
- Rework trac pages so that they reflect the current status
- Find a way to push updated docs to the website.

fs

yesterday I published the first release candidate of TurboMail 3.0. As the status 'release candidate' implies this release *should* be stable enough to be used by normal users. interesting bugs during the process. Now we need even more real-world testing to get a rock-solid final release!

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