Hypermail 2b28

Hypermail is now a complex support issue.  The new Y2K compliant,
hypermail 2b28 has been installed on the system as hypermail2.  The old
hypermail software is still installed as hypermail.  Please read the
rest of this message carefully if you have been using or are going to
use hypermail.

The old version of hypermail is not Y2K compliant.  The problem is that
all messages after December 31, 1999 have their year changed to 1970 for
sorting purposes.  Thus new messages after December 31, 1999 will start
showing up at the top of the date order list instead of the bottom.

There are two known problems with the new version of hypermail:

1.      Does not handle OpenMail messages.
        
        The new Y2K compliant Hypermail 2b28 does not handle OpenMail
        messages!  It now handles MIME attachments, but doesn't know how
        to deal with the message body being an attachment.  It assumes
        it's a graphic instead of text.
        
        Mail originating from OpenMail (OMGUI client and Web client for
        example) have MIME attachment text bodies, mail coming from
        OpenMail will appear to have no message body and just a broken
        graphic where the body should be.  OpenMail is following a
        proper standard and Hypermail will have to be fixed, as was pine
        a few years ago, to handle this format.
        
        The author has been emailed regarding this problem.
        
2.      Not backward compatible with old archives.
        
        Furthermore, Hypermail 2b28 is not backward compatible with the
        old version of hypermail.  As a result, processing an old
        archive with the new software can lead to unpredictable results.
        Hypermail users should convert their old archives back to mbox
        format, if they don't have a copy already in that format, with
        the hypetombox.pl utility.  The command format is
        
                hypetombox.pl -d hypermail_archive_directory
                        -m new_mbox_file
        
        The new mbox formatted file can then be processed by the new
        hypermail software.  Please refer to the hypermail2 man page for
        instructions on creating an archive from a mbox formatted file.
        
        The old version will remain on the system until the end of
        Winter quarter 2000 or until the newer version of Hypermail has
        its attachment problem fixed, whichever comes later.