27th June 2008 Claws Mail 3.5.0 CLAWS MAIL RELEASE NOTES http://www.claws-mail.org Claws Mail is a GTK+ based, user-friendly, lightweight, and fast email client. Notes for this release: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * IMAP with STARTTLS The certificate port on TLS was fixed, however this will trigger one wrong 'New certificate' warning on the first connection. New in this release: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * Added an option, "Use secure file deletion if possible", which enables shredding of temporary files and messages instead of just removing them. This is available on the Other preferences page. * Added an option, "Select the HTML part of multipart/alternative messages". This is available on the Message View/Text Options preferences page. * Added an option to the 'Create new folder' dialogue which enables new folders to inherit the properties of their parent folders during folder creation. * Added a hidden option, "two_line_vertical", which toggles the 2-line view in the message list when using the 3-column layout. Defaults to '1', show 2 lines. * Added a hidden option, "outgoing_fallback_to_ascii", which allows the user to specify an outgoing charset/encoding, but still fall back to 7bit US-ASCII when possible. Defaults to '1', fallback when possible. * Added support for the Avant Window Navgator (Awn) information bubble. This is automatically enabled if dbus is available. * Face and X-Face headers can now be added globally and per-account from configuration files under ~/.claws-mail/autofaces/. Further information is provided in the manual. * The SHA1 fingerprint is now shown on the SSL certificate dialogue and the labels are now selectable. * Several GUI improvements have been made, (Address book, filtering dialogue, Actions dialogue, and Account preferences). * New icons have been added for 'Reply to list' and 'Cancel'. The 'Insert file' and 'Close' icons have been improved, as have the tray icons. * Added the Trash and Delete icons to the Custom Toolbars options. * SMTP-only accounts are now not shown in the Receive menus and Account lists in filtering/processing, as they are irrelevant here. * tools/csv2addressbook.pl Support for a gmail exported csv address book was added. * Updated English, French, and Spanish manuals. * Updated translations: Brazilian Portuguese, Finnish, French, German, and Spanish. * Removed unmaintained translations: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Russian, Swedish, and Taiwanese. (New maintainers are very welcome, contact paul@claws-mail.org) * Bug fixes: o bug 1447, 'If user tries to close while starting up, it will not close ever.' o bug 1566, 'too short I/O timeout on OpenBSD' o bug 1576, 'Curly brace literals reported as error in message template' o bug 1581, 'Bad File Format during Import LDIF' o bug 1586, '3-pane vertical layout now and then still shows sender column' o bug 1587, 'can not replay with quote' o bug 1589, 'tagsdb file not removed when folder deleted' o bug 1597, 'In news folders, "Move Message to Wastebin" icon isn't grayed although ineffective' o bug 1598, 'Leading slash while translating "Unsubscribe"' o bug 1599, 'attach multiple files with the same name from one mail to another' o bug 1602, 'Crash when sending return receipt for messages with no subject' o bug 1604, 'found_in_addressbook "From" in "Any" in non english local' o bug 1608, 'Inconsistent behaviour of mark as read options' o bug 1610, 'claws crash after opening/closing preferences and window update' o bug 1613, 'Various memory leaks' o bug 1615, 'hang on FIFO when the other end's not opened' o bug 1616, 'strange question while emptying trash' o bug 1623, 'exits with segfault when logging in to certain imap-servers' o bug 1624, '[PATCH] Quick search should be disabled for folder view' o bug 1628, 'Claws Mail crashes when filtering selected messages' o bug 1635, 'Last character of message is truncated when changing accounts w/ sigs' o bug 1636, 'Can't select "properties" on "folders only" folders' o bug 1650, 'Message line too small after changing columns in "three columns" layout' o Use g_(un)setenv instead of (un)setenv which doesn't exist on IRIX 6.5. o Fix 'Delete line' and 'Delete to end of line' on the last line. o Fix double free when STARTTLS fails o Fix ldap deprecated calls o Fix debian bug 481856, 'Segmentation fault when verifying a GPG signature' o Fix cursor placing on signature change o tools/thunderbird-filters-convertor.pl Fix reading a tb rule that contains something like that: \"Sender\" For further details of the numbered bugs listed above consult http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/index.cgi --------------------------------------------------------------------- See ChangeLog for full information regarding changes in this release.