Messaging Access SDK Release Notes

Java Version This file was last updated on August 28, 1998.

Thank you for choosing Netscape Messaging Access SDK 3.51. These release notes contain known problems and other important information about the product. Please read these notes before using the SDK.

What's in the Messaging Access SDK? You can find the latest feature list at this URL.

For installation instructions: See the Read Me file.

For the latest documentation: See the Messaging Access SDK Guide, which is available on Netscape DevEdge Online.

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Bugs fixed in this release

The Messaging Access SDK release 3.51 includes fixes to the following bugs:

242755:   POP3 API gets parser error for retrieve with servers that do not return an octet count.
312512:   SMTP API adds an extra space at the end of mailFrom and RcptTo commands,
                which is not acceptable to some of the servers.
313521:   SMTP API does not quote the addresses.
312637:   MIME parser should handle lines larger than 512 bytes.
313545:   mime_decodeHeaderString() should handle unencoded and multiple encoded strings
                with intermixed unencoded text. Several array bounds conditions with this method fixed.
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Known problems with this release

This section describes known problems or bugs in this release.

Buffered Input Stream
Documentation Errata

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The BufferedInputStream does not throw an exception

If the underlying socket to the mail server closes unexpectedly, the BufferedInputStream does not throw an IOException as it should. Instead, it sends a stream of '?' characters on subsequent reads.

Status of the bug: This is Netscape Bug#103797 and JavaSoft bug 4072173. This bug has been fixed for JDK 1.2 Beta 3.

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Documentation Errata

POP3 Servers and Octet Count

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POP3 Servers and Octet Count

IPOP3Sink.retrieveStart. The definition of the in_octetCount parameter of the IPOP3Sink.retrieveStart method should contain this note:

Some POP3 servers do not return the octet count with RETR. For these servers retrieveStart callback returns an octet count of zero (0).

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Last Updated: August 28, 1998