Working on MailSaver

Well, with our GroupWise 7 upgrade on the near horizon, I’ve picked up and started working on MailSaver again. The old version is still in heavy use in the company, and working well enough for what it is, but the new one will have lots of new features that have been requested from both internal people and the user community out in the big wide world.

The most frequently asked-for feature is internationalization. MailSaver would work in any language version of GroupWise 6, but the configuration menu wasn’t available unless you were using an english version. This has been fixed, and now MailSaver works in pretty much all languages available for GroupWise, except double-byte character set languages (asian languages that use pictographs).

Next, GroupWise 6.5 and 7.0 compatibility has been requested a lot. The existing version works in GW6.5, but hadn’t been tested very much. It didn’t work at all in 7.0. The development version now works properly in 6.5 and 7.0.

Third, lots of people have asked for me to make it work in a proxy account. I haven’t figured this out yet but it’s on the todo list, and a brief perusal of the documentation makes it look very possible.

Finally, of the several internally requested features, I’ve added the ability for MailSaver to remember the folder the user selects to save messages to on a cabinet-folder by cabinet-folder basis. For example, if the user saves the cabinet folder “Projects” using MailSaver into P:/Projects, the next time the user selects to save that folder, it will automatically go the same P:/Projects folder. The new version will also flag each message with a “Previously Saved” flag, that will cause it to avoid re-saving messages and attachments that have already been saved, thereby eliminating duplicate files. It will also deal better with HTML-only messages, so that it can handle non-rfc compliant messages created by some email systems.

Some bugs with necessary VB runtime files being missing and not properly installed by the MailSaver instalation program have also been fixed.

I should have the new verision published by some time in June.