1 5th April 2006 Sylpheed-Claws 2.1.0
3 SYLPHEED-CLAWS RELEASE NOTES
4 http://claws.sylpheed.org
6 Sylpheed-Claws is the extended version of Sylpheed, a GTK+ based,
7 user-friendly, lightweight, and fast email client.
9 Notes for this release:
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12 * libetpan version 0.45 or newer is now required for IMAP support,
13 this allows checking for IMAP/SSL certificates.
19 * Support for the Face header has been added,
20 see http://quimby.gnus.org/circus/face/
22 * In the Templates dialog TAB address completion has been added for
23 Cc and Bcc fields, in addition to To.
25 * An account's signature file, (Account Preferences, Compose tab),
26 can now been edited in place using the configured text editor.
28 * An advanced search is now possible in the '/Edit/Search folder'
31 * '/Edit/Find' has been added to the Compose window for text
34 * A progress bar is now shown in the status bar whilst doing a Quick
37 * A long search can now be cancelled.
39 * In a Sent mail folder the From column in the message list is now
40 automatically changed to the To column.
42 * '/Message/Colour Label' has been added to the main menu, enabling
43 (unmodifiable) shortcut keys, Ctrl+[0-7].
45 * The colour labels are now customisable from the 'Display/Colours'
46 page of the Preferences. It is now possible to choose any colours
47 and to give them each a label.
49 * A Spell Checking option to 'Recheck message when changing
50 dictionary' has been added.
52 * An option to 'Render HTML-only mail with plugin if possible' has
53 been added to the 'Message View/Text Options' preferences page.
55 * Headers in the message view and the Custom headers dialog are now
56 translated if the option 'Translate header names' is activated.
58 * It is now possible to sort the columns in the Addressbook.
60 * More drag-n-drop capabilities have been added, from the message
61 list to other apps, from the mimeview to other apps, from other
62 apps to message list, from other apps to folder list, from the
63 mimeview to the message and folder lists and the Compose window's
66 * "Ignore thread" has beed added as a filtering action.
68 * The Compose window is now hidden when sending mails via filtering.
70 * An alphabetical resort is done immediately when a folder's name
73 * Unsubscribing a newsgroup now removes the related folder and
74 articles from newscache/
76 * A "Get more..." link has been added to the Plugins window. This
77 loads http://claws.sylpheed.org/plugins.php in your browser.
79 * The SpamAssassin plugin is now equipped with a spam learning
80 interface, usable by right-clicking a message and choosing
81 'Mark as Spam' or 'Mark as Ham' in the Mark submenu. It is now also
82 possible to disable SpamAssasin filtering when receiving mail, so
83 that the plugin can be used for learning only.
85 * Remote learning in the SpamAssassin plugin has been added. This
86 requires SpamAssassin 3.1.x.
88 * A new script has been added that integrates a Thunderbird folder
89 tree into Sylpheed-Claws, tools/tbird2syl.py
91 * updated Brazilian Portuguese, British English, Bulgarian, Czech,
92 Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Serbian,
93 Simplified Chinese, and Spanish translations.
97 o bug 908, 'Flagging on IMAP-Server fails'
98 o bug 916, 'newsgroup unsubscribe segmentation fault'
99 o bug 924, 'Account combo box shows up wrong if & is in
101 o bug 927, 'SIGSEGV during Update Summary'
102 o bug 929, 'Unnecessary reload in quick search bar'
103 o fix a crash in JPilot
104 o fix drafting on IMAP
105 o prevent double-timeouts when connection IMAP fails
106 o return immediately when IMAP password dialog is cancelled
107 o fix missing expunge on IMAP, causing folder refresh
108 problems in certain conditions
109 o fix crash on Reply with no From:
110 o fix undoing by blocks with spaces in Compose
111 o fix auto-wrap disabling itself after a middle-click paste
112 o convert passphrase to locale encoding
113 o fix GPG preferences items sensitivity
114 o fix some problems on heavily customized toolbars
115 o fix race conditions when big uncached mails are used in
117 o fix crashes on cancelling the Quick Search
118 o fix wrong Fake URL Warning
119 o fix the busy cursor not appearing in the textview
120 o fix a crash with the preview in file dialog, on Solaris
121 o fix useless reload of summaryview after execution (of copy
123 o fix update of caches after actions involving %f or %F
124 o fix search in quoted-printable bodies
125 o fix code conversion on reply when date format returns a
127 o fix some GUI issues and compilation warnings
128 o Empty strings for passwords are now allowed.
129 o disable Manual menu if the manual's not installed
130 o Allow URIs containing '(' and ')'
132 For further details of the numbered bugs listed above consult
133 http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/sylpheed-claws/bugzilla/index.cgi
135 * and other code reorganisation, cleanups, and more.
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138 See ChangeLog and README for full information regarding changes in