Progress updates
February 2025 - Web server development, WinPMail futures

Quite a short progress update this time - sorry it's a bit late. I'm currently battling a bout of RSI (or OOS as they seem to want to call it these days). My right arm is very painful and it means I have to rest regularly to avoid overtaxing it. I've had this before and it usually goes away after a month or two, but it does require a bit of management.


The web server redevelopment in Mercury is going well, although it has been complicated by some less than optimum coding decisions I made when I originally wrote the MercuryB module in 2002. In order to remain compatible with the third party service API I originally provided, I've had to write some of the new code in ways I wouldn't normally do these days. Nonetheless, I'm nearing completion and believe the new capability will be genuinely useful to a lot of people.


Mercury with DKIM support has now been in successful testing with the test team for the best part of a month, and I now deem it ready to go. Once the web server redevelopment is complete and tested, we will have a new release of Mercury that will allow you to try both new features.


I've begun discussing some of the next steps for WinPMail with my test teams; in particular, I want to simplify the settings structure for the program: there are many settings in WinPMail that either no longer have any real purpose, or which clash with more modern ways of working, so we're going to spend time on working out what can be cut out, what can be moved out of the "Options" tree (perhaps into INI files of some kind), and how the options tree can be rearranged to make it simpler and clearer, with a particular emphasis on having "default" settings that
apply when a particular setting in an Identity has not been specifically changed by the user.


That's about all the news I have at the moment - with February being a short month, there will be another report quite soon, in which I hope to be able to tell you that the web server redevelopment is complete.


Best regards to you all!


Cheers!


-- David --


Quite a short progress update this time - sorry it's a bit late. I'm currently battling a bout of RSI (or OOS as they seem to want to call it these days). My right arm is very painful and it means I have to rest regularly to avoid overtaxing it. I've had this before and it usually goes away after a month or two, but it does require a bit of management. The web server redevelopment in Mercury is going well, although it has been complicated by some less than optimum coding decisions I made when I originally wrote the MercuryB module in 2002. In order to remain compatible with the third party service API I originally provided, I've had to write some of the new code in ways I wouldn't normally do these days. Nonetheless, I'm nearing completion and believe the new capability will be genuinely useful to a lot of people. Mercury with DKIM support has now been in successful testing with the test team for the best part of a month, and I now deem it ready to go. Once the web server redevelopment is complete and tested, we will have a new release of Mercury that will allow you to try both new features. I've begun discussing some of the next steps for WinPMail with my test teams; in particular, I want to simplify the settings structure for the program: there are many settings in WinPMail that either no longer have any real purpose, or which clash with more modern ways of working, so we're going to spend time on working out what can be cut out, what can be moved out of the "Options" tree (perhaps into INI files of some kind), and how the options tree can be rearranged to make it simpler and clearer, with a particular emphasis on having "default" settings that apply when a particular setting in an Identity has not been specifically changed by the user. That's about all the news I have at the moment - with February being a short month, there will be another report quite soon, in which I hope to be able to tell you that the web server redevelopment is complete. Best regards to you all! Cheers! -- David --
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