OE Classic discussions and updates

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  1. Willy2

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    - It's now july and then A LOT OF people (incl. the developers of OEC ??) are/could be on holiday. Don't know how soon a new version will be available.
     
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  2. FanJ

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    Hey, of course I understand that, and besides that: there is this pandemic ...
     
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    - New version of OE Classic PRO v3.1 available.

    Bugfix:

    [2020-06-14] Fix for Polish N acute accent not working on ALTGR + N (and other ALTGR shortcuts on various keyboard layouts)

    - The bugs that were plagueing the july 6, 2020 version have been fixed.
     
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    - New version available (17 july 2020).
    - Changes made in this version:

    [2020-07-17] High DPI support for the Preview Pane, Message Viewer and Message Editor
    [2020-07-17] Improved IMAP folder handling and increased compatibility with various servers which have misbehaved (3 fixes)
    [2020-07-15] Fixed access violation error when closing the main program window with opened message editors or message viewers
     
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    A bug has just been fixed (23 July 2020):
    [2020-07-23] Fixed crash on some configurations when closing Message Editor
     
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    A new feature has just been introduced (27 July 2020):
    [2020-07-27] Zoom setting added to the Message Editor (status bar)

    You will love this new zoom setting if your eyesight is as poor as mine.:)
     
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    - For those who want to enlarge the characters on their screens (incl. OE classic) should try Sysinternals' ZoomIt.
     
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    Some info taken from FB regarding this useful new zoom setting feature:


    Source: https://www.facebook.com/oeclassic/
     
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    - New OEC PRO v3.1 version available:

    Bugfixes:
    [2020-08-11] Fixed crash on some configurations when closing Message Editor
    [2020-08-22] Status bar high DPI sizing fixed in Message Editor and Message Viewer
     
  10. FanJ

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    OE Classic Pro (beta) update - 05 Sept 2020

    Bugfixes
    [2020-09-05] Various high DPI misbehavior fixes
     
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    Here's some background info from FB:

    The latest update of OE Classic - v3.1, 2020-09-05,
    https://www.oeclassic.com/ - has the following improvement:

    - Various high DPI misbehavior fixes

    We went through all the windows in the program and tested them on a high DPI Windows setting to see if some elements would still misbehave and we've fixed all that we could see, from squeezed status bars and tightly packed menus to tiny icons for attachments.
    OE Classic should now look good on any screen with 125% or more DPI setting (display scaling), for example laptops with high resolution screens where you have to increase the display scaling to over 100% to properly see all the clickable elements.
     
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    OE Classic Pro 3.1 (beta) update - 08 Sept 2020

    New feature
    [2020-09-08] File encoding selection added to Import Wizard for CSV files
     
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    I don't know the terminology, what i do know it never work for me. Lost a lot of e-mails.
    Updates are pretty rare.
    Nice idea but not practical.
     
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    @Circuit:
    - It means that in different parts of the program the characters were displayed in a different size when the user had a monitor/screen with a high resolution/high DPI (=dots per inch).
    - Never had any problems with losing emails. The way the emails are stored is - in my opinion - "rock solid".If you had any problems with losing emails then why didn't you report that problem to the developer ?
    - One shouldn't Always blame the program. I know one case where a user switched from the POP protocol to the IMAP protocol in his emailprogram. For those who know the differences between the 2 protocols won't be surprised to see that this user also "lost" A LOT OF emails. And then the user blamed the program.
     
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    New version of OEC PRO available:

    [2020-09-18] User customizable folder icons (for user folders)
    [2020-09-20] IncrediMail import (v1.0 and v2.0 formats)
    [2020-09-22] Added 48x48 size for all toolbar icons
     
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    New version of OE Classic available:

    [2020-09-26] Compatibility adjustments for Windows 2000
    [2020-09-29] IncrediMail import (v1.0, v2.0 and v2.5 formats)

    (How much people are still using Windows 2000 ? )
     
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    Even though Windows 2000 is hardly used by anyone today, this was a small adjustment to make it possible to run OE Classic on Windows 2000. Of course, our focus still remains on Windows 10, but this is useful if someone needs to transfer data from Windows 2000. OE Classic was already compatible with Windows 2000, but sometime between 3.0 and 3.1 we introduced a change which broke the compatibility, which is now, of course, fixed.
    Source: https://www.facebook.com/oeclassic
     
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    Still not possible to make it the default email client.
    Takes a long time .... should be possible after such a long time.
     
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    - I consider "Default Email Client" also to be an important feature to be implemented next. The only thing the OEC developers are willing to say about "Default Email Client" is that "It's our next project". What that means ? I don't know.
     
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    I think it's more than a year ago now they said it was on top of the to do list.
    Since that time a lot of updates, not always clear what was updated, and corrections of errors I never noticed.
     
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    Update - 16 Nov 2020

    New feature :

    [2020-11-16] Free and Pro versions are now unified into one installation file (Pro version requires activation)
     
  23. Willy2

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    - It has been about 6 week without a new update. Hopefully the developers are working on including an option for making OEC the default email client ............
     
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    Agree Willy2.
    It's on top of the to do list since a year now I think, still nothing.
    Why this activate / de-activate popup since the last update ?
    Useless.
     
  25. FanJ

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    There is a new (beta) update today 17 Nov 2020.
    But I don't know what exactly has been changed. The ReadMe file (the changelog) is the same, except for the date.

    Here you can see the difference:

    [+] [2020-11-16] Free and Pro versions are now unified into one installation file (Pro version requires activation)
    [+] [2020-11-17] Free and Pro versions are now unified into one installation file (Pro version requires activation)

    Maybe Facebook has more info. I don't know.
     
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