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• A major new feature has been added to address the problems that can arise when sending very large files through email systems. When the combined size of all the files you attach to a TrustMe message exceeds 5 MB, the files are delivered separately from the message itself, avoiding the problems that can occur with large email messages. The attachment package is uploaded to a TrustMe server and made available for download by recipients of the email message to which it is linked.
• When you receive such a message, you can immediately download the large attachment in much the same way that you can save a smaller attachment that was included with an email message.
• A new vault manager has been added to allow you to view and manage the attachment packages that you have previously sent.
• Please consult the online help file (in the Extra Features section) for a more complete description and detailed instructions on use of this feature.

Send Queue Manager

• When you compose a message and send it, the message is queued for delivery in the background so that you can continue working without interruption. In some circumstances, messages can remain in the queue for extended periods. The most common case is when you compose messages offline for delivery once you have a network connection again.
• A send queue manager has been added that allows you to see the messages still queued for delivery. It also shows the large attachment packages to be uploaded for delivery through the TrustMe package server. If there is a problem with delivery, you can use the send queue manager to retry the delivery of selected items, or to delete them from the queue.

Draft Saving

• You can now save drafts of the messages you compose. Drafts are saved as simple TrustMe message files that you can organize however you like. You can open a draft message at any time to send the message or to continue working on it.
• If you attempt to close a message composition window that you have edited, you will be given a chance to save a draft of the message.
• If you have unsaved messages open when you attempt to exit the application, you will be given the opportunity to save each message as a draft before exiting. If you decline to save any message, the application will not exit and you will have a chance to do something else with the message.

Profile selection when signing in

• In previous versions, you could ask the application to remember your login password for you. But if you logged in to different TrustMe accounts on the same computer, only the most recent login would be remembered.
• In this version, every successful login is remembered on the local computer, and the password is remembered for every user who has selected that option, either at login time or through the option settings.
• The login window now presents a combo box that can be used to select a username from a list of those who have previously logged in on this computer, or to enter a new user name and password. This greatly simplifies the sharing of a single computer between several people.

Startup optimization

• Startup time for the application has been significantly reduced. When possible (which is almost all of the time), you can now log in using locally cached information, avoiding the delays associated with the first calls to the TrustMe service. You will initially be in offline mode in which some features are unavailable. As soon as the TrustMe service has been contacted in the background, you will be taken online automatically. In practice, the delay in going online rarely interferes with anything you want to do (because the delay is short — usually between 5-10 seconds, and messages can always be read and composed while offline), but the reduction in startup time is a significant improvement.

HTTP proxy support

• Previous versions have inherited Internet Explorer proxy settings to provide transparent HTTP proxy support. This has been adequate for many situations, but not all. It did not automatically work for users who chose a different browser and left the Internet Explorer proxy unconfigured. It also did not work for proxies requiring authentication credentials — a more serious problem because there was no easy work-around.
• This version adds slightly more sophisticated proxy support. Internet Explorer settings are still inherited automatically. If the proxy requires authentication, the TrustMe client will prompt for a user name and password for the first connection and will remember the credentials for the duration of the session. You can also explicitly configure a proxy, and have the option to remember the proxy password permanently. These settings can be accessed through the Options panel, but they can also be set directly from the login and and account creation dialogs so that you can get started in environments where the automatic approach is not sufficient.

Other features and improvements

• Message delivery retry. In previous versions, if a message could not be delivered immediately (e.g., because the network connection was lost as delivery was being attempted), then it would sit in the outgoing queue until the TrustMe application was restarted. In this version, periodic attempts are made to deliver all messages. You can use the send queue manager (see above) to see what messages are queued for delivery, and how many times each one has been retried.
• The expansion state of your group list is now remembered across sessions. When you start the application, the buddy list will be displayed in the same pattern of collapsed and expanded groups as when you last exited. This is remembered only on the local computer, not globally for the TrustMe account. So if you use the same account at home and at work, you can have different groups open at each location.
  Login failure detection. It is perfectly acceptable to be logged in to TrustMe simultaneously at different locations. For example, you might leave yourself permanently logged in both at home and at work. In this situation, if you change the password at one location, the other location needs to have the new password before it can continue. The situation is now detected automatically, and you will be prompted for a new password wherever and whenever necessary.
• The menus have been cleaned up, removing unimplemented entries and implementing many others. For example, shortcut keys have been implemented in many places, including the formatting options in the message composition window, and copy/paste keys in the subject box of the composition window.
• When printing a message, a header is now included summarizing information such as the sender, recipients, subject and date.
• The reporting and handling of error conditions has been improved in many places. In some places, the messages will be a bit friendlier and more instructive. In others, reporting is more extensive. For example, if message preparation fails for any reason when sending a message, you will now see a dialog listing, for each intended recipient, whether the message was successfully prepared for that recipient and, if not, why.
  With previous versions, it was possible to repeatedly accept or decline an invitation. In many cases this was harmless, but could potentially lead to complications. In this version, if you attempt to accept or decline an invitation that has already been accepted or declined, you will receive a message explaining the situation and the invitation will not be processed again. This also tightens the security of invitations, eliminating the possibility that someone else will be able to accept an invitation on your behalf if it subsequently falls into their hands.
• In previous versions, preference settings and other application data was stored in a location near where the executable itself was stored. This version stores its local data in the standard Windows location for local application data. This change should be largely invisible, but may simplify some activities such as backing up user settings for all your applications.
• There are several situations in which the TrustMe service sends mail on your behalf. The most common cases are the delivery of invitation messages, and email account verification messages when you register a new address. In some cases, regular email messages you send might also be relayed through the TrustMe service if the application cannot find another way to deliver them. In all of these cases, the messages are now fully standards compliant, setting the ‘Sender’ header appropriately. Some email clients (notably Microsoft Outlook) display messages differently when this header is set. The practical consequence is that it will now be more readily apparent which messages were delivered directly and which ones were relayed through the TrustMe service.

Bug fixes

• It is now possible to attach and send files that are opened in other applications. For example, in previous versions you could not attach and send a document that was currently opened in Microsoft Word. Now you can. Several issues relating to the forwarding of attachments have been corrected.
• Long attachment file names no longer cause problems in displaying attachments.
• In previous versions, attempting to add an entire group to the Bcc list in the message composition window resulted in a message that could not be delivered. This has been corrected.
• Spell check is fully disabled when no dictionary is found.
• Password reset validation messages can now be processed after the client is closed and restarted. In the previous version (the first to support password reset), the reset would only succeed if you opened the validation message without first closing the client.
• The name of the main TrustMe message attachment is now more meaningful. In previous versions it was always just ‘TrustMeMessage.tmspn’. The default name now has information about the sender and subject, which can be useful if you frequently save these attachments and need to keep them organized.
• The buddy list is now properly refreshed when the last group is deleted.
• When selecting new image files for your default or group icon, the file selection dialog has a filter set limiting selection to supported image file formats. This will aid in selecting image files of a suitable type.