3rd September 2007 Claws Mail 3.0.0 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: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * Claws Mail is now licensed under GPLv3 or later. New in this release: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * added Tags feature Tags are arbitrary labels that can be applied to messages. It is possible to create, edit, remove Tags; apply them to mails; filter on Tags or Tag presence; apply or unset Tags via Filtering actions; reference Tags in reply Templates. * Threads can now be sorted by most recent message /View/Sort/By thread date * Added "/View/Show or Hide/Column headers" * Added 'watch thread' feature * Enabled the running of folder Processing rules on demand * Added options to stop/enable writing logs to disc, see Logging page of preferences * IMAP and News: Implement age-based caching: allow the specifying of a threshold for the offline synchronisation feature, and whether old cached bodies should be removed. Accessible from the Folder Properties. * IMAP: Made multiple copy, (in the same IMAP account), faster by matching source/destination message UIDs. * LDAP: Ability to edit all Person attributes * Nicer layout of the message part icons * Speed up and clean up rendering of larger msgs * Use progress bar when sending messages * Made mainwindow's /Help/Manual point to the remote copy if the local copy doesn't exist * Replaced some deprecated widgets * Enabled changing the emphasis color used to highlight the newsreader/x-mailer header value when it matches our preferred mail agent, (hidden pref 'emphasis_color' added to clawsrc). * tools/mew2claws-mail.pl Added new script that imports a Mew address book * tools/popfile-link.sh Added a new script that will open selected messages in POPFile control center, in order to change the message status. * Updated the manual * Check that Dillo's installed when loading the Dillo Browser plugin * Maemo improvements: o Automatically choose the correct application to open parts o Better way to notify of new mails o Destroy messageview after trashing mail o Simplified layout o Better toolbars, removal of CTree headers o Add a specific icon to go back to folder list o Improvements to the Wizard, About and icon legend dialogues o add an easy way to store data (mails and IMAP/NNTP caches) on one of the SD cards, and protect against unmounts if needed o plug the online/offline system into maemo's interfaces to have Claws automatically switch according to the system status (on IT OS 2007) o use HildonBanners to display status messages o force layout to be Small screen o put the progress bar in the toolbar * Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Slovak translations. * Bugfixes: o bug 1224, 'The process of Replying to emails with large attachments seems unreasonably long...' o bug 1246, 'compose becomes increasingly slow replying to complex emails' o bug 1261, '[DE] coloring messages in overview keys are not localised' o bug 1267, 'printing mutliple messages opens one message- dialog after the other' o bug 1275, 'auto-saved draft messages not always being removed' o bug 1284, 'The html -> text converter ignores entities' o bug 1286, 'Can't move a folder into a "Folders Only" folder' o bug 1287, 'Compile time problem on Solaris (nexenta gnu/Solaris) utils.c' o bug 1292, 'CM crashes on writing mail' o bug 1290, 'Claws Mail crashes if too little memory when rebuilding folder tree' o bug 1293, 'LDAP address book not working' o fix processing progressbar o fix re-opening of all composing messages that were opened when closing the previous instance o fix toolbar prefs crash when no actions exist o fix typos around long form expressions in the quote lexer. o Quicksearch: Make search run on GDK_KP_Enter too o fix missing timestamp update on MH source folder when moving mails o fix 'o' (Open) shortcut on MIME parts o fix two vCard-related crashes o fix threads use on BSDs o copy all account preferences in account_clone() - some were missing. o fix 'List URLS' o Fix format string vulnerability o Fix all potential misuses of format-string functions o Address Book: Contacts are now locale-aware sorted in the address book o use suitable defaults for outbox, queue, drafts and trash folders o fix loss of subfolders properties when renaming a folder o fix Quicksearch's Sticky mode o fix signature replacement when it's been wrapped o fix cursor offset when quote contains UTF-8 chars o fix coloring of pastes as quotation o fix wizard crash when Mailbox dir already exists o IMAP: fix timeout setting (requires libetpan 0.52) o IMAP: better scanning (NOOP instead of CLOSE/SELECT) o IMAP: fix unwanted creation of libetpan's stream dump file o LDAP: fix possible crash on cache invalidation o LDAP: fix port being reset to 636 on SSL o LDAP: fix wrong "Connected successfully to server". o Maemo: layout fixes o Maemo: fix auto-completion o Maemo: fix sticking statusbars o Maemo: fix the strange "top_application" info at startup. o Maemo: fix crash on first launch o Maemo: don't opened selected folder when clicking on white space o Maemo: make Esc close messageviews o Maemo: fix message scrolling to the end on opening o Maemo: fix reopening same message o Maemo: fix opening of mails from keypad in Sent folders o Maemo: fix adjustments changes o Refresh window when processing o Windows: never pass NULL pointers for %s substitutions 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.