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M7 Release Notes

These release notes, last updated June 25, 1999, describe installation instructions and known issues pertinent to the M7 release. These notes are updated as we receive feedback, so please check back for new information. You can also view an up-to-date list of fixed bugs.

Installation Instructions - Unix
Installation Instructions - Win32
Installation Instructions - Mac OS
Files Created or Used
Limited Support Features
Known Issues
Known Issues in Mail and News
International Issues

This release expires on July 15, 1999 at 00:01 am.

Installing the M7 Release Build

Unix Instructions

Create a directory named "mozilla" and move the tar.gz file into the mozilla directory.

mkdir mozilla ;

mv mozilla*.tar.gz mozilla

Change to the mozilla directory and untar the archive. This will create a directory called "package".

cd mozilla ;

gzip -dc mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-M7.tar.gz | tar -xvf -

Change to the "package" directory.

mv mozilla*.tar.gz ../ ;

cd package

Run mozilla with the run script:

./mozilla-apprunner.sh

Note: Bookmarks are temporarily reading the file "mozilla/package/res/rdf/bookmarks.html." instead of "~/.netscape/bookmarks.html". You can copy your bookmarks file as a workaround for now:

cp ~/.netscape/bookmarks.html mozilla/package/res/rdf/bookmarks.html

Mail Instructions for Unix

IMPORTANT: Please see the information in the mail/news pref document to correctly set up your mail preferences file.

Win32 Instructions

You will need a copy of WinZip. This is shareware available at http://www.winzip.com (also at http://www.download.com).

Click once on the mozilla-win32.zip link. The file will be downloaded to your default folder.

Click on the mozilla-win32.zip file to launch WinZip.

After clicking "I Agree" to terms of WinZip shareware, click the Extract button in the WinZip tool bar. An x86 folder with application and associated files will be unzipped.

Select Apprunner from x86 folder to launch the program.

Run "apprunner.exe" to use browser and mail.

Run "viewer.exe" to run only the gecko layout engine

Note: To use your current bookmarks with m7, you should overwrite the default m7 bookmark file with your own, for example, copy "C:\Program "files\Netscape\Users\<profile_name>\bookmark.htm" to "x86rel\res\rdf\bookmarks.html" Note that the file name changes slightly and that 'profile_name>' needs to be replaced by your user profile name.

Mail Instructions for Win32

IMPORTANT: Please see the information in the mail/news pref document to correctly set up your mail preferences file.

Mac OS Instructions

If you have StuffIt Expander™ installed and your browser is configured to use it:

Click once on the mozilla-mac.sea.bin link. The file will be downloaded to your default folder (usually the desktop) and StuffIt™ will start up and convert it to mozilla-mac.sea for you. Then StuffIt will open up mozilla-mac.sea and convert it to a folder called mozilla-mac for you.

Open the mozilla-mac folder and double-click the file "apprunner." (Note: you no longer need the .bin or .sea files.)

Note: If you try step one and your browser asks you what you want to do it's because you don't have StuffIt™ configured. In that case, just click Save and continue from Step #3 below.

If you do not have StuffIt Expander™ installed or your browser is not properly configured:

Make sure you have StuffIt™ somewhere on your hard drive.

Click and hold the mozilla-mac.sea.bin link.

Choose "Save this link as...".

Click the Save button.

Double-click on the newly created icon "mozilla-mac.sea.bin".

StuffIt™ will start up and simultaneously create a file "mozilla-mac.sea", and a folder called "mozilla-mac."

Open the mozilla-mac folder and double-click the file "apprunner." (Note: you no longer need the .bin or .sea files.)

Note: To use your current bookmarks with , you should overwrite the default M7 bookmark file with your own. Copy your bookmark file, located in your profile directory (example: "{Hard Disk}:System Folder:Preferences:Netscape Users:{Profile Name}") into your "{Mozilla Binary Location}/res/rdf/" folder.

Mail Instructions for Macintosh

IMPORTANT: Please see the information in the mail/news pref document to correctly set up your mail preferences file.

Files Created or Used

Windows
user/	$windir/	$%TMPDIR%/
prefs.js (Preferences file (used)) cache/ (cache directory) cookies.txt (cookies file) *cookperm.txt (used to selectively accept/reject cookies) FieldSchema.tbl (files for auto form filling) SchemaConcat.tbl (files for auto form filling) SchemaValue.tbl (files for auto form filling) URLFieldSchema.tbl (files for auto form filling) signons.tbl and signonsx.tbl (logins and passwords file store)	mozregistry.dat (the Mozilla registry)	localstore.rdf (the Mozilla registry)
Unix
user/	~/.mozilla/	/tmp/localstore
prefs50.js in ~/.mozilla/[profile] (preferences file (use)) Cache in ~/.mozilla/[profile](cache directory) cookies (cookies file) *cookperm (used to selectively accept/reject cookies) FieldSchema.tbl (files for auto form filling) SchemaConcat.tbl (files for auto form filling) SchemaValue.tbl (files for auto form filling) URLFieldSchema.tbl (files for auto form filling) signons and signonsx (logins and passwords file store)	registry (the Mozilla registry)	localstore.rdf
Mac
TBA	TBA	TBA

*Note:"cookperm.txt" ("cookperm" on Unix) is a file used to selectively accept cookies from certain sites and not from others. It is used only if you set your preferences so you see a warning before accepting cookies. To do that, hand edit the prefs.js file to include:

user.pref ("network.cookie.rememberAboutCookies", true);

Limited Support Features

**Available Navigator Functionality**
Functionality	Description	Comments
Back, Forward, Reload
Location Field	You can browse by entering URLs
Various Menu Commands	Menus do work, but many commands are not hooked up. Menus items that do work include: File menu: New Browser Window, New > Blank Page / Page using Template ... / Page using Draft ..., Quit; Go menu; Bookmarks menu (except Add commands)
Toolbars	Toolbars display above and below content window, most buttons working though a couple are not hooked up to execute a command.	No toolbar hiding or moving enabled yet.
Downloadable chrome	You can dynamically change the chrome (apply new skins and new content) in m7 with the following caveats: (1) Only Navigator is using the new chrome URLs. Messenger hasn't made the switchover yet. (2) Changes aren't persistent yet, so if you change the skin, the change won't be remembered. (3) The window doesn't dynamically refresh (once the window manager is further along, it will). In order to see your changes, you need to open up a new window after running the script to set the new skin.	See the sample code in section 9 of the downloadable chrome spec
Link Buttons	Buttons that simply link to a web address, including the N brand button, Home, My Netscape.
Access Personal Toolbar	Links in Personal Toolbar are displayed and can be used	Can't add or edit
Access Bookmarks	Access Bookmarks through Bookmarks menu, can't add or edit.	Can load your current bookmarks file. See instructions under platform installations.
Access via Manage Bookmarks Window	Can open and close folders, one click to launch bookmarked URL in new toolbar-less window. File menu > New Window command also works.
Status Display	Toolbar beneath content area, status during loading of URLs.

**Available Mail/News Functionality**
Functionality	Description
Start Mail	Run Apprunner and bring up the three-pane mail window
Get New Mail	Download and display contents of local mail folders; POP
Handle SMTP	SMTP protocol works; send a message (note: on send, the compose message window doesn't close)
Display Message -- Mail	Go to the "demos" menu and select several messages from your Inbox. The message content is displayed in the message (lower right) pane.
Display Folder List	Local mail folders are displayed in the folder (left-hand) pane.
Delete Message	Delete a message using the Delete toolbar button.
Edit/Send Text Message	Bring up the compose window by clicking the New Msg button, type some text, and send.
Sorting -- Thread Pane	Sorting works for Subject, Sender, Status, and Date.
Move/Copy Messages	You can move one message at a time.
Read Attachments in Messages	Attachments can be displayed in the message pane.
Post message to newsgroup	Using the compose window, post a message to a newsgroup. To post to hosts other than news.mozilla.org, set the "network.hosts.nntp_server" preference (the default NNTP server preference). Currently, the default value of this preference is "news.mozilla.org".
Post to multiple newsgroups simultaneously	In the "Newsgroup:" field of the compose window, you can post to multiple newsgroups at once. Use commas to separate the newsgroups.
Display news hosts and subscribed newsgroups	Using the prefs and the newsrc files (and if needed, the fat or NewsFAT files), populate the folder pane with news hosts and subscribed newsgroups.
Display News articles in thread pane	When you click on a newsgroup, show the message subject, date, etc. in the thread pane.
Display Message -- News	Click on a message in the thread pane and the message content is displayed in the message pane.
Get News	Select a newsgroup in the folder pane and click on "Get Msg" to download any new news articles.
Marking news message as read	Use the menu "Message \| Mark \| As Read" to mark a news message as read. Currently, the read status is being saved, but not in the newsrc file. This is a bug. (#8075)
Viewing news message automatically marks it read	Viewing a news message marks it read Currently, the read status is being saved, but not in the newsrc file. This is a bug. (#8075)
Cancel news message	If you are the author of an article, then the delete button (or the Edit \| Delete Message menu item) cancels the article. As with 4.x, you can only cancel one article at a time. Due to several dialog / alert bugs, you won't see the confirmation dialog ("are you sure you want to do this?") or the alert open cancellation. ("message cancelled."). For now, On Windows and UNIX, look for these messages in the console window.
Display Address books and LDAP directories	Address books and directories are displayed in the left pane according to preferences. No real data in right panes yet.

Additional Mail Functionality

The multiple POP accounts feature is available for you to try out. In your preferences file, add another account name to this line:

user_pref("mail.accountmanager.accounts", "account1,account2");

You will need to have identity and server information for the second account. For example:

user_pref("mail.account.account2.identities", id2");

user_pref("mail.account.account2.server", "server2");

where id2 and server2 preference lines exist and point to actual servers, etc.

You can bring up the Address Book and see the UI. To see the address books and directories on the Address Book window left pane, copy the "ldap_2.*" prefs from 4.5 (or later) prefs.js into prefs50.js. However, the card data in the UI is hard coded at this time and you can't make address book entry changes or deletions.

**Available Gecko Functionality**
Functionality	Description	Comments
HTML 4.0	Done except bugs.
Cascading Style Sheets, level 1 (CSS1)	Features 98% done; bug-fixing remains.
Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 (CSS2)	Positioning, tables, selectors done.	No support is committed for final release, but some features are already working and will likely be enabled.
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 0	Done.
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1 HTML	90% done.
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2	JavaScript event model 80% done.
Extensible Markup Language (XML)	James Clark expat parser in; documents parse. Simple XLink and HTML Namespaces done.
XML + CSS1	Working.

Known Issues

The browser window keeps popping up to the front. You can suppresss this problem by turning off notifications. (bug 6892)
1. Edit res/rdf/flash-registry.rdf and remove the following lines:
  
  <RDF:li>
  
  <RDF:Description
  about="http://cvs-mirror.mozilla.org/ webtools/tinderbox/showbuilds.cgi?tree= SeaMonkey&flash=1">
  <NC:poll-interval>60</NC:poll-interval>
  
  </RDF:Description>
  
  </RDF:li>
2. Edit res/rdf/sidebar-browser.rdf and remove the following lines:
  
  <RDF:li>
  <RDF:Description ID="tinderbox">
  <NC:title>&sidebar.tinderbox.label;</NC:title>
  <NC:content>http://cvs-mirror.mozilla.org/ webtools/tinderbox/showbuilds.cgi?tree= SeaMonkey&panel=1</NC:content>
  </RDF:Description>
  
  </RDF:li>
Issues related to Profiles:
- IMPORTANT: All the information regarding profiles is stored in the registry file. When you check out a new build, make sure you delete the following items before you install, build, and run the new executable:
  - Windows mozregistry.dat ( c:\winnt or c:\windows or equivalent),
  - Mac OS Mozilla Registry (System Folder:Preferences),
  - Linux registry (~/.mozilla/)
  Not deleting these might cause inconsistencies.
- The ProfileManager feature has been added. You open Profile Manager with the command line argument : -ProfileManager. The Profile Manager user interface appears, supporting creating a new profile, and deleting and renaming existing profiles. When you finish any of the tasks you can click Exit to quit the Profile Manager. In M7, you will be able to click a Start Communicator button to start appRunner with a selected profile.
- A profile named 'default' is created in addition to the new profile created by the Create Profile wizard. The next version of the Profile wizard will start using 'default' and eliminate the requirement of having at least two profiles ('default' plus a user-generated profile). (bug 6683)
- The mail server, user name, and other mail related preferences that you set up through the Create Profile wizard are not reflected back in any prefs50.js file. To use mail, you must manually set up your prefs50.js file, following the directions in the "mozilla mail/news prefs" document. Then copy your prefs50.js file to the location where your new profile is created after using the Profile Manager. If you have previously used Messenger and have all your mail preferences set, just copy the prefs50.js to the profile location/directory.
Clicking OK or Cancel in the Preference dialog may cause the browser to crash. (bug 5844)

Double-clicking items in Preference panels may cause crashes. (bug 8608)

Selecting the Download, Colors, or SmartUpdate Preferences panels may cause the browser to crash. Workaround: replace files in the directory Chrome/pref/content/default/ with these linked files: attachment 470, attachment 471, attachment 472

Visited links don't show up in a different color. (bug 3437)

Opening multiple browser windows causes unpredictable results. Any URL entered into a new browser window affects only the first window. Closing multiple windows in the wrong order can cause a crash.

The Sidebar may appear collapsed when you first launch Apprunner. The Sidebar closes if you attempt to resize it.

Loading problems (possible crash or freeze) sometimes occur on pages that contain applets.

You cannot copy and paste in the Location bar.

Several problems are under investigation for the URL http://my.netscape.com. My Netscape is diverted to the Netscape home page on all platforms.

Within Viewer, many options within the Debug & Tools menu items are not currently working or produce unpredictable results.

If you have installed the latest JRE 1.2 from Sun Microsystems, you may crash at startup if the Java plugin is present. To fix this, remove the following dlls from the Plugins folder located in your 4.5 (or later) Communicator directory: npjava32.dll, npjava12.dll and npjava11.dll.

None of the JavaScript window.xxx() functions work with AppRunner windows. Windows can be opened using the ToolkitCore, but those windows don't play well with most of the JavaScript properties and methods.

"javascript:" is not working.

The following toolbar and menu items are either not fully functional or disabled:

The Back, Forward, and Stop buttons often appear to be inactive (grayed) when they are actually active. Although mousing over them or clicking them may produce no visual feedback, the appropriate action is taken. (bug 7909)

The Back button doesn't work with manually entered URLs or URLs accessed through bookmarks

The Stop button fails intermittently

The Close menu item doesn't work (use the close box to close windows)

Print (toolbar button & menu item) and Print Preview fail intermittently

Keyboard shortcuts/command keys are not available for most menu items with the exception of the following for the mail compose and editor window: Ctrl-C (copy), Ctrl-V (paste), Ctrl-Z (undo). and Ctrl-Y(redo) and their Mac OS equivalents. The old Unix equivalents (using Alt- instead of Ctrl-) don't work; use Ctrl- .

Information about preferences related to saving username/password or form data:

To see a warning prompt before saving username/password or form data, set the following preference (by hand) in your prefs.js file:

user_pref("wallet.useDialogs", true);

This pref is false by default, so saving will be done silently. This is done because there currently are no dialog boxes and the warning prompt would occur in the console window.

To suppress saving of form data altogether, set the following preference (by hand) in your prefs.js file:

user_pref("wallet.captureForms", false);

This preference is true by default.

To supress saving of username/password, set the following preference (by hand) in your prefs.js file:

user_pref("network.singon.rememberSignons", false);

This preference is true by default.

Windows only:

You may not be able to subsequently enter text into any compose window after the first try, due to editor timing problems.

Links on pages that use CSS do not work.

If you have a second video display monitor connected to your computer, links displayed on that monitor will not work.

Selecting the Print option causes crashes.

Preferences now load, but are not completely functional.

The CSS property "bgcolor" does not work.

The Wallet feature does not work correctly.

Mac OS only:

There is unexpected behavior on the Mac when sidebar categories are selected. Expected behavior: Clicking once on a category should select it, and clicking twice should open it. Actual behavior: Sometimes a single click opens a category, and when this happens the previous category is highlighted after the single-clicked category opens.

If an included .css file is missing, the application will crash.

Cookies are not yet ready.

The throbber, mozilla animation in the upper right corner of a page may not work while the page is loading, though the page still loads.

Linux only:

The Back and Forward buttons do not work for manually entered URLs.

Java is not yet implemented.

If the fonts are too small in your environment, it may be possible to alleviate this by setting a preference in Mozilla. Add a line like the following to the preferences file (~/.mozilla/prefs50.js):
user_pref("browser.screen_resolution", 120);
This sets the dpi to 120. If you set the pref to zero (0), Mozilla will use the X server's dpi value. If the pref is not set, it uses the default value of 96.

There is some info about setting the X server's DPI value at http://www.mozilla.org/unix/dpi.html.

If your fonts are still too small (or too large) after setting the DPI correctly, you can adjust the font size as follows:
setenv GECKO_FONT_SIZE_FACTOR 1.5
Note that the latter only affects fonts. The screen_resolution preference affects anything that specifies absolute size (e.g. CSS "pt" points).
Bug 4103: On Linux, a crash occurs if you:

Start apprunner.

Select "File / New Browser Window."

Close a window.

Select "File / New Browser Window." a second time.

The throbber, mozilla animation in the upper right corner of a page may not work while the page is loading, though the page still loads.

Solaris only:

The Copy command in the browser's Edit menu is not working. (bug 6253)

Known Issues in Mail and News

Quoting is not completely functional in M7. When you reply to a message, the original text is inserted, but the blockquote element (HTML compose) is not inserted to distinguish the quoted text. (bug 7789)

Replying to the news message does not automatically fill in the name of the newsgroup in the compose window addressing area. Currently, you must manually input the name of the newsgroup. (bug 6931)

When you select and display a message, it is not automatically marked as read for IMAP. (bug 7513)

POP protocol: Deleting multiple messages is currently not functional. You are able to delete one message at a time. (bug 8203)

When addressing a message to multiple recipients, use a comma to separate the recipients. If you use a semicolon, a program crash may occur.(bug 8276)

When selecting a newsgroup for the first time, you must click Get Msgs in the toolbar to display a list of the newsgroup messages in the thread pane. (bug 7090)

If you have a problem continuing to type text after you select one of the text attributes (such as bold or italic), try selecting and deselecting some text in the HTML compose window to get your cursor focus back. (bug 6444)

If you compose and post 10-15 news messages, messages may not be displayed in the message pane afterwards, and you may be prevented from opening other Navigator windows, or from doing any task that requires URLs. Exit and restart Apprunner. (bug 8515)

IMAP protocol: After you delete a message, getting new messages may not function. You must exit and restart Apprunner/Messenger. (bug 8332)

Although you can bring up the Search and Filters dialogs, backend code for these features has not been implemented so you will not be able to perform any functions in these dialogs.

The Move and copy message feature is not working for the IMAP protocol. (bug 8457)

If your prefs50.js file is configured for multiple POP accounts, and the host names for both accounts go to the same server name, only one account will show up when you start Messenger. (bug 5752)

See also the information on the prefs50.js file, earlier in this document.
When you select an unread message with the message pane collapsed, the message is marked as read. (bug 6485)

Due to optimizing performance in displaying headers (bug 7002), Messenger temporarily does not show the message counts in the folder pane when parsing a mailbox folder, and doesn't increase them when copying or getting new mail. This also applies to News messages. IMAP mail may not be affected. (bug 7010)
Due to optimizing performance in displaying headers (bug 7002), unread messages don't show up as bold in the thread pane until you move your mouse over them. This does not affect the message's state if you select an unread message to read it. This is a temporary problem and will be addressed in the next release. (bug 7012)
If you have local folders with many saved messages (hundreds or thousands), don't point the Mail application at your actual local folder hierarchy. All folders reparse at startup, and vast quantities of memory could be consumed if your total number of messages is high.

Sorting affects your ability to perform operations on messages. If you sort your messages first, operations on messages may not work, including deleting, copying, marking messages read, and other operations involving the affected code area. (bug 6670)

Vcards in mail are not fully functional and may cause failures when clicked.

Mac OS only:
- When you move a message, headers aren't copied into the destination folder. The message is copied, but you won't be able to see the results until the next time you start Messenger/Apprunner. (bug 6975)
- Selecting the panels in succession in the Account Manager dialog may result in a crash. (bug 7568)
Linux only:
- In Messenger, text under the toolbar buttons is not readable. For a workaround, see http://www.mozilla.org/unix/dpi.html.
- Selecting the panels in succession in the Account Manager dialog may result in a crash. (bug 7568)
- Issues in the Mail Compose window:
M7 International Issues
For updated information on features, fonts, and testing for Internationalization, visit this page.
General:
- If you have used an earlier version of Mozilla 5.0, we recommend that you delete the file called mozregistry.dat (Win) or registry (Unix/Mac) before you run M7 apprunner. (Don't delete Netscape Registry file for Mac, which is for Communicator 4.x.) This will avoid unnecessary problems/crashes in some cases. Read the section in this document called Files Used or Created to find out where you can find these files.
- Also read the Installation instructions for your platform carefully in this document.
- When you start M7 after having deleted mozregistry.dat or registry, you will be asked to create a new profile. If you name an existing profile, that profile will be used. Otherwise "Default" profile will be created. If this latter happens, you can replace the prefs50.js file in the Default folder with the one from an existing profile directory.
- If you want to report international bugs, use the Bugzilla. If you have a question, post a news article to: netscape.public.mozilla.qa.i18n.
Browser:
- Unix charset support now on par with Win and Mac!: In addition to the ones we have supported since M5 on Unix, i.e., iso-8859-1, jis_0212-1990, we have enabled font display support for all the other languages/charsets for which there are converters except Armenian, Thai, and Vietnamese. The display for these charsets should also work for mail messages. The list of the supported charsets at M7 can be found below. Please download the binary and check out our support for these character sets. (Note: You need appropriate fonts to display these languages -- pcf.gz format on Linux. Visit this site for ISO and Cyrillic BDF fonts, and this site for multi-byte language fonts. For converting from BDF to PCF format fonts, use bdftopcf utility.)
- New converters have been added to all platforms: Not all are shown in the Character Set menu but they can be enabled by simple modification of appropriate .xul files. See below the item named View | Character Set menu for details on how to modify these files. M7 additions are marked in red in the list appended below.
- On Mac: At M6, multi-font rendering code was re-written to improve on display performance. We would like people to continue to evaluate performance for this feature, particularly performance/speed issues in loading. If you find performance problems, please file a bug.
- View | Character Set menu: You can switch to different Character coding upon encountering a page which does not have a meta charset tag. You will not see a checkmark next to the menu item yet, however.
- Bug fixes include:
Editor:
- Mac Editor and Mail composer: (Note: Current editor widgets will soon be replaced by the new Ender/Editor widgets and many improvements are expected at that time, but the following international input methods and keyboards are working with the current widgets!) Try them out with your international keyboards on MacOS 8.5 or later.
- On Win and Mac: there have been a number of international bug fixes for M7 to generally improve editing documents and mail. Try out the editors on these platforms, you will see improvement in cursor handling, CJK IME interactions, etc.
Localizability:
- Some do-it-yourself localization is possible. Not much change in the following items from M5.
Mail/News (Testing done on Windows only):
- Preferences file: prefs50.js
- Japanese attachments auto-detection working in M7: There is no need to set Character Set menu for Japanese file attachments. We use auto-detection to display them correctly. Display of non-ASCII attachment names is working with the exception of the name used in the link.
- International Sorting in Thread pane headers: is now working but there are some known problems. Sorting should be done according to the sort default for the language of your operating system. Please test this for your language/OS and see if sorting is satisfactory. Date/Time sorting is currently done alphabetically and will not be all that accurate.
- International Date/Time format: is now working. It uses the default for your operating system's locale. The effect should be visible in the thread pane date/time headers and will follow your current system setting option. Please check out this features for your language/OS!
- Multi-lingual mail viewing: This is working on all platforms.
- View | Character Set menu for New Mail Compose window is working for sending mail for many additional languages. Switch to the charset you want to compose a message in and then compose the message. You will not see a checkmark next to the menu item yet, however.
- IMAP Mail: is now working. All international Smoketests are passing for IMAP. You can change the server type to "imap" from "POP3" to indicate that the server in question is of IMAP type in your prefs50.js file.
- Sending Latin 1 Mail: Works in both HTML and Plain text.
- Sending Japanese mail: works only in Plain text. HTML mail body disappears upon "send".
- Sending other charset mail -- is enabled. Please try out these new charsets! For example, Central European, Cyrillic, Greek, UTF-8, etc.
- Reply/Forward: is basically working but there are some non-ASCII display bugs in the new mail composer. You may not always see the characters displayed properly in your language in Mail Composer though mail generally gets sent out correctly.
- Viewing News: is working. We have done some international testing on this. In principle, multilingual news articles viewing should work if they have correct MIME charsets indicated in the articles. Be warned, however, that newsgroups postings are not always MIME-compliant and this could defeat our charset honoring mechanism.
- Bug fixes include:
Mail/News (for Mac and Linux)
- We don't currently test these platforms for international features. Though we cannot vouch for accuracy, many of our Windows features should be available on these platforms also. Linux mail is somewhat behind Windows and Mac, however.
Features that are not supported in M7:
- No CJK IME support on Linux.
- No Japanese Auto-Detect in browsing.
- No posting non-ASCII forms data.
- No CJK printing on Linux.
- HTTP charset won't be handled -- until new NetLib (Necko) is integrated.
List of Charset Converters available at M7: New additions in red.
Single-byte:
- Western (ISO-8859-1, Windows-1252, MacRoman), Central European (ISO-8859-2, Windows-1250, MacCE), South European/Esperanto/Maltese (ISO-8859-3), Baltic/North European (ISO-8859-4, Windows-1257), Cyrillic (ISO-8859-5, Windows-1251, KOI8-R aka ISO-IR-111 aka ECMA-Cyrillic, MacCyrillic, CP-866), Arabic (ISO-8859-6, Windows-1256) - (not in spec, might be removed from commercial build later) , Greek (ISO-8859-7, Windows-1253, MacGreek), Hebrew (ISO-8859-8 aka Windows-1255) - (not in spec, might be removed from commercial build later), Turkish (ISO-8859-9 aka Latin5, Windows-1254, MacTurkish), Nordic/North European (ISO-8859-10 aka Latin6), Celtic (ISO-8859-14), Western (ISO-8859-15), Armenian (ARMISCII-8), Thai (TIS-620 aka Windows-874), Ukrainian (KOI8-U, MacUkrainian), Vietnamese (VISCII, Windows-1258, VIET-VPS, VIET-TCVN5712), other Mac encodings (MacCroatian, MacIcelandic, MacRomanian).
Multi-byte:
- Japanese (Shift_JIS, EUC-JP), Traditional Chinese (Big5, EUC-TW), Simplified Chinese (GB2312), Unicode (UTF-8, UCS-2, UCS-4), Korean (EUC-KR), Western (T.61-8bit) - support this for LDAP v2 and X.500.
Stateful:
- Japanese (ISO-2022-JP), Unicode (UTF-7, IMAP4-modified-UTF7- Needed for IMAP folder names)

Mozilla

M7 Release Notes

Installing the M7 Release Build

Unix Instructions

Mail Instructions for Unix

Win32 Instructions

Mail Instructions for Win32

Mac OS Instructions

Mail Instructions for Macintosh

Files Created or Used

Limited Support Features

Additional Mail Functionality

Known Issues

Known Issues in Mail and News

M7 International Issues

Features that are not supported in M7: