[k9] K9 version 1.22 released
- From: Robin Keir <robin@xxxxxxxx>
- To: "k9@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <k9@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2004 22:32:52 -0800
K9 version 1.22 has been released (Jan 3rd 2004).
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* SEE BELOW FOR AN IMPORTANT CHANGE YOU NEED TO MAKE IF YOUR K9 *
* "RECENT EMAILS" HAVE RECENTLY DISAPPEARED! *
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Bug fixes and changes:
- K9 now saves a copy of the existing good.dat and spam.dat database
files whenever these are saved to disk. The backup files will have a
".old" file extension.
- Changed default DNSBL server from cbl.abuseat.org to xbl.spamhaus.org
(which now incorporates cbl.abuseat.org). Note that this is only for new
installations - your existing server will not be changed.
- Hopefully fixed a problem with new installations on Windows 9x/Me
systems that would cause K9 to become confused as to the location of the
Emails directory.
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Apologies for the release of 2 versions in 1 day but I discovered a flaw
in today's earlier version (and 1.20) that could cause problems with
new installations, particularly when running on Windows 95/98/Me.
If you have recently installed or updated K9 and your Recent Emails
window appears empty or you never see any emails in the window despite
the program apparently working otherwise correctly, you may be suffering
from the problem just mentioned.
The simplest way of fixing it is to use the registry editor and change
an entry in the K9 section. For this, you will need to know where your
K9 Emails directory is (or should be). If you used K9 prior to version
1.20 this will most likely be at
C:\Program Files\KeirNet\K9\Emails
If you only started using K9 at or after version 1.20 it is probably
easier to uninstall it and install this new version since K9 will
probably not have had much time to "learn" yet. If this is the case
you can ignore the following information.
o Exit K9
o After you have located your K9 emails directory, run RegEdit as
follows:
o Click the Start button, select "Run..." and type in "regedit".
o When RegEdit starts, drill down to the entry at
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\KeirNet\K9
o Click on the K9 entry in the left pane and in the right pane you
should see a large list of values, amongst which is an entry
called "EmailsPath".
o Double-click the word "EmailsPath" in the right pane and in the
value data field that pops up enter the full Emails directory path as
described above.
o Exit Regedit.
Again, apologies for this inconvenience. This partly stems from having
to support so many different Windows platforms, from the oldest Windows
95 to the newest XP and all of their idiosyncrasies!
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The latest version of K9 can be downloaded directly from the following
links:
EXE installer version (installer and uninstaller)
http://keir.net/download/k9v1setup.exe
ZIP version (no installer or uninstaller)
http://keir.net/download/k9v1.zip
You can safely install over any existing copy without losing any
information.
For answers to commonly asked questions visit
http://keir.net/k9_faq.html
Thanks for your support!
All the best.
--
Robin
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