[drats_users] D-RATS 0.2.9

[Dan Smith]

Hi all,

I just posted 0.2.9 with the following changes since 0.2.8:

- Added incoming mail destination (form or chat message)
- Added email access controls for in and outbound forwarding
- Added automatic inbound email transport (email -> form send)
- Added Comment field to static overlays
- Added pop-up window to display information about a station on the map
- Added visibility flag persistence in static overlay
- Added RPC controls for File, Form, Position operations
- Added non-editable sender field on email forms
- Fix parsing of DPRS messages when checksum is only one character
- Fix polling of mail server when internet toggle is off
- Fix map downloader after adding internet toggle
- Fix map downloader's minimum zoom limit
- Fix config window to coerce callsign to uppercase
- Fix QST toggle persistence
- Fix email gateway to be a thread to avoid hanging the GUI
- Fix TCP socket forwarding
- Fix TCP socket timeouts
- Fix slow static overlay load time
- Fix failure to scroll QuickMessage advanced control
- Update GTK version on Win32
- Make Win32 installer clean old D-RATS installation
- Update IT translation

This release represents the first bi-directional mail forwarding
solution.  It allows an unattended D-RATS station to ferry mail back and
forth between RF stations and the internet without any intervention.

Also, the new RPC functions allow a remote user to retrieve files and
forms from an unattended station.  The position report function allows
polling of a station's current position, or of the last-known position
of another station.  Access the RPC functions by right-clicking on a
station in the "Callsigns" tab at the bottom of the main window.

Enjoy!

-- 
Dan Smith
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www.danplanet.com
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