31st July 2006 Sylpheed-Claws 2.4.0 SYLPHEED-CLAWS RELEASE NOTES http://www.sylpheed-claws.net Sylpheed-Claws is a GTK+ based, user-friendly, lightweight, and fast email client. New in this release: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * A ./configure option has been added, --with-mandir=DIR allowing the setting of the man directory location * 'Send queue' has been added to the folder contextual menu, which allows sending the contents of a single queue, as opposed to the toolbar's Send Queue, which sends all queues * '/View/Go to/Next unread folder' has been added * 'View/Go to/Next marked messages' now traverses folders * sftp:// links are now recognised in mails * A dialogue is presented to the user when dropping files into the Compose window, asking whether to insert or attach the file(s). The default behaviour can be controlled via a new option in Compose/Writing * Allow attached message parts to be selected, opened, or saved via their text label in the message body * Save named inlined attachments with "Save all" * An option to change the Folder Type has been added to the Folder Properties * Add |i{sub_expr} to Templates, which allows inserting user-entered text in a template * A new option has been added to '/Preferences/External programs' to allow "Display as text" on attachments to be done via a script * An option to 'Never send Return Receipts' has been added to the 'Other' page of the preferences. * The Custom Header dialogue in Account Preferences now has a 'From file...' button, which enables a Face or X-Face header to be set by selecting a file * libgnomeprint support : A font for printing can be specified in '/Display/Fonts' * Add Help buttons to some dialogues, clicking on them will open the manual at a suitable section in the configured browser * The option 'Add date header' has been removed, a date header is now always added * The '/Message/Re-edit' menu item has been removed from the separate Message View, where it was useless * Display an Account's Protocol as a label instead of the unusable combo when editing accounts * It is now possible to move and copy mails from and to the Drafts and Queue folders * More non-English Subject prefixes have been added * The Attachment flag is now set for some inlined attachments * Faster recursive quicksearch (show current folder's results before searching sub-folders) * Faster send on IMAP * Alert in case of authentication error on imap * Better error reporting in GPG plugins * Faster and better MBOX import/export * Save caches on SIGPIPE (like on Xorg exit) * Unified Info/Help/Symbols buttons * Honor display-header-pane setting in separate window too * Use the user-defined From: in the Return-Path: header when sending * Grab Save button by default in Save dialog, which allows saving by hitting Enter * The online status is checked before resetting mailcheck timer * Show POP3 connection earlier in statusbar * Re-read /etc/resolv.conf before connecting to IMAP servers, and when switching to Online mode * tools/textviewer.pl has been added, which can be used with the new option 'Command for Display as Text' in '/Preferences/External programs' * The Sylpheed-Claws logo has been updated * updated Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, French, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, and Spanish translations. * Bug fixes: o bug 977, 'Can't add or edit imap accounts' o bug 978, 'Disconnect from IMAP server when going offline' o bug 981, 'sc 2.3.1 segfaults with gtk+ 2.10' o Fix double '/Go to/Next ...' o Fix signature replacement when changing accounts and re-editing, in certains cases o Don't report a GPG error when Cancel is clicked on the passphrase dialogue o Block undo while changing signature o Don't freeze the GUI when rescanning local folders after a crash/kill o Fix default button for rules, actions, templates when attempting to close without saving (default was to close) o Fix compilation on some systems o Fix a race condition when, after an SC crash, rescanning folders took more than 0.5 seconds o Don't allow the use of inboxes from F_UNKNOWN folders as default inbox, vCalendar plugin for example o Fixed off-by-one count of current message in the statusbar filtering progressbar o Fix focus of button in Actions I/O dialogue For further details of the numbered bugs listed above consult http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/sylpheed-claws/bugzilla/index.cgi * and other code reorganisation, cleanups, and more. --------------------------------------------------------------------- See ChangeLog and README for full information regarding changes in this release.