BEARHTML

BEARHTML is middleware sitting between Pegasus Mail and an Html file viewer.
It is intended as an alternative to HTS in Pegasus Mail for rendering Html message
content.
It is not an editor for preparing Html messages, and neither is it an Html
browser .

That being said the (first) installation is simple (from either the main Pegasus
Mail site,
or my direct update site: http://www3.telus.net/public/irelam/

1. Shutdown Pegasus Mail

2. Download Bearnnn.zip (containing bearhtml.dll), BearSupport.zip and Bearxx.zip
(where xx is country code for translated helpfiles). Eg Bearen.zip for English
helpfiles.
Extract content of zips into the Pegasus Mail executables directory.
3. Create an empty file using notepad, called bearhtml.log in the Pegasus Mail
NewMail directory,
ie C:\pmail\mail\bearhtml.log (needed for tracing problems).
4. Review/Edit Bearhtml.ini, BearWarn.txt, and BearLang.xx if required (xx=
language code).
5. Start Pegasus Mail.

What do I see? Well nothing new (hopefully). For html messages in the New Mail
and
in normal message folders you should get the message rendered more accurately.

Distribution set

The following files make up Bearhtml:

Bearhtml.dll
Bearhtml.ini
Bearwarn.txt
BearTidy.cfg
Beartlds.txt
LibTidy.dll
BearGrfn.png

Bearhlp-en.htm (EN is country code)

BearLang.en (EN is country code)
Bearhtml-readme.txt (this file)
BearDef.css

Bearhtml.log (in your newmail directory)

Upgrades

From time to time, announced in Forums (community.pmail.com) Newsgroups and my

website,
( http://www3.telus.net/public/irelam/ ) new versions of Bearhtml.dll and
the helpfiles (Bearnnn.zip and Bearxx.zip) are made available.
You can download these files (per steps 1 & 2 above) and replace existing versions.
Your options file, bearhtml.ini will not be replaced.
Limitations (intended)

1. Scripting languages, either imbedded or remote, such as Javascript are

flushed/ignored but the webpage is rendered.
This affects code that differentiates between browser engines (IE/Firefox). Cookies
processing is also ignored.
2. In some cases remote images cannot be fetched as the Urls are incomplete and
there is no <base> header tag coded.

Options

At present the user interface for setting options is contained in Bearhtml.ini:

Martin Ireland