-5th September 2005 Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.14
+3rd October 2005 Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.15
SYLPHEED-CLAWS RELEASE NOTES
http://claws.sylpheed.org
Sylpheed-Claws is an extended version of Sylpheed, a GTK+ based,
lightweight, and fast e-mail client
-This is the GTK 2 version of Sylpheed-Claws.
-
Notes for this release:
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-* The 'Open first unread message when entering a folder' option has
- been replaced with 'When entering a folder select...', allowing the
- user to 'Do Nothing','Select first new (or unread) message',
- (falling back to first unread message if there are no new
- messages), or 'Select first unread (or new) message', (falling back
- to first new message if there are no unread messages).
-
- Whether or not the selected message is opened is now exclusively
- controlled by the 'Always open message when selected' option.
-
-* Filtering and Processing rules can now be given a name. The
- configuration file is converted to the new format automatically and
- the old file is backed up to ~/.sylpheed-gtk2/matcherrc.pre_names.
+* etpan >= 0.39 is now required for IMAP support
-* A new icon for the Trash button has been added.
-
-* The 'Bold font' option has been removed. A displayed bold font is
- now derived from the normal font.
-
-* The option 'Display recipient in 'From' column if sender is yourself'
- has been removed from the GUI. It still exists as a hidden option,
- available in ~/.sylpheed-gtk2/sylpheedrc as 'enable_swap_from'.
+* LDAP and JPilot support is now built by default if the dependencies
+ are available. Use './configure --disable-ldap --disable-jpilot' if
+ you don't want them.
New in this release:
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-* Many improvements to the Address book including a generally more
- consistent and intuitive GUI, better labels and reworked and more
- logical menu items, context sensitive buttons depending on how
- the address book is called and allowing only relevant actions.
- Icons have been added to the buttons, fixes to LDAP support, and
- fixes to drag 'n' drop.
+* ~/.mailcap or /etc/mailcap is now used to open attachments
-* It is now possible to paste wrapped or unwrapped text into the
- Compose window. A '/Special paste/' menu item has been added with
- sub-items 'as quotation', 'wrapped', and 'unwrapped'.
+* middle-click pasting that respects the 'Wrap pasted text' option
+ has been added
-* Colourisation of quotes, signatures, and URIs has been added to the
- Compose window.
+* during composition the user is alerted if the message can't be
+ drafted
-* A 'To' column has been added to the message list pane.
+* the description windows are now non-modal
-* The displayed columns in the folder list are now configurable,
- '/View/Set displayed columns/Folder list'
+* a 'Clear Log' button has been added to the log window popup menu
-* A hidden option has been added, 'toolbar_detachable', that enables
- the removal of the toolbar handles.
+* Sender, List-Post and To have been added to the headers that are
+ checked during automatic Filtering and Processing rules creation
-* A hidden option has been added, 'statusbar_update_step', that
- enables changing the sensitivity of the progress bar stepping.
+* the current locale's charset is used for display of broken mails
+ and a hidden option, 'utf8_instead_of_locale_for_broken_mail', has
+ been added allowing the user to use UTF-8 for broken mails
-* Changes to the Fonts options are now applied immediately.
+* GNU/aspell support: if black is chosen as the misspelled word
+ colour, misspelled words will be underlined.
-* Subfolders of Drafts, Queue, Sent, and Trash now behave like their
- parents.
+* the Message View and Compose windows now display the message
+ subject as the window title.
-* An 'Open image' menu item has been added to image popup menu in the
- message view.
+* libgnomeprint support: currently selected text attachments can be
+ printed
-* Several optimisations and speed-ups have been added throughout.
+* drag'n'drop of messages from the Message List to a Compose window's
+ Attachment pane is now possible
-* The localedir, manualdir, and faqdir are now user-configurable.
+* PGP/MIME plugin: it is now possible to verify S/MIME signatures
-* tools/asus_mailled.sh
- A new script to blink an ASUS laptop's mail LED when there is
- unread mail.
+* PGP/Core plugin: A "Don't encrypt" button has been added to the key
+ selection dialog, and the buttons have been reordered.
-* tools/kdeservicemenu/*
- Use Sylpheed-Claws icon and the text 'Sylpheed-Claws' in the menu,
- use kdialog during installation
+* the user is warned if the requested Privacy system is not available
+ when composing a message
-* updated translations: Brazilian Portuguese, Finnish, French, German,
- Serbian, Slovak, and Spanish
+* updated translations: Catalan, Finnish, French, German, Serbian,
+ Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, and Taiwanese
* Bug fixes, including the following:
- o bug 32, 'Search Doesn't display results if "Hide Read
- Messages" is chosen'
- o bug 517, 'messages removed from summaryview when moving
- fails'
- o bug 686, 'Message view on Drafts/Sent should be the same on
- Subfolders'
- o bug 769, 'Typo in manpage'
- o bug 771, 'Dragged contacts not saved'
- o bug 776, 'S.C. crashes on close'
- o bug 777, 'Sylpheed crash in account configuration'
- o bug 780, 'MSexchange IMAP - using IMAP "Sent Items" and
- "Deleted Items" folders'
- o bug 787, 'multilevel delete causes SIGSEGV'
- o bug 788, 'Bogus "From" address displayed'
- o bug 789, 'SC crashes with imap (CVS ver)'
- o bug 791, 'IMAP Automatic auth mode always defaults to
- LOGIN'
- o bug 795, 'Connection lost IMAP'
- o bug 797, 'Summary view reloads when new mail is downloaded
- in 1.9.14 rc'
- o bug 800, 'Locked messages no longer show up when hide read
- messages is used'
- o fix building on NetBSD and FreeBSD
- o fix building on Solaris
- o fix instant-apply of summary and folderview-related prefs
- o fix emphasis color on rechecking 'Colorize messages'
- o fix offline mode for NNTP
- o IMAP: Fix bug with LIST where we'd try to get
- Folder//////[...]///
- o fix bug where msgview_visible option was overwritten as
- TRUE on startup
- o fix replying to an attached message
- o fix privacy settings on re-editing a sent message
- o fix invisibility of SMTP SSL prefs in NNTP accounts
- o workaround for broken MUAs: encode Content-type: name: as
- ASCII and Content-Disposition: filename: as per rfc2231
- o fix colour labelling
- o fix pgp plugin loading adn signature verification
- o fix flickering in folder list
- o fix crash in 'line length exceeded' dialogue
-
+ o bug 177, 'There should be a 'Don't Encrypt' button in the
+ 'Select Keys' dialog'
+ o bug 448, 'Scrolling/Redraw issue with address-fields in
+ Header'
+ o bug 572, '%X option does not work with templates'
+ o bug 767, 'Preferences window expanding'
+ o bug 790, 'Crash when restarting window manager (fluxbox)'
+ o bug 794, 'No way to delete without expunging'
+ o bug 803, 'IMAP/SSL support breaks with GnuTLS libetpan 0.38'
+ o bug 804, 'Quicksearch togglebutton doesn't get depressed
+ after '/' key is pressed'
+ o bug 815, 'No quote insert if "From:" fied contained Russian
+ letters'
+ o bug 816, 'Weird quotation with spaces'
+ o bug 819, 'crash accessing sign message'
+ o special subfolders: inherit parent's icon, send contents of
+ queue's subfolders, empty subfolders of trash folders
+ o fix crash in wizard
+ o fix loss of message Mark on move/copy
+ o fix 100% cpu usage in address completion list
+ o fix gcc-2.95 issues
+ o eliminate warnings on FreeBSD
+ o skip currently selected message when looking for next new
+ or unread message in current folder
+ o fix bug in partial download when there's no new mail
+ o send dialog: prevent hang on Cancel
+ o fix Automatic encoding, first try default locale's charset,
+ then charset of the replied mail, then utf-8
+ o IMAP: fix crash caused by discrepancy between
+ check_at_startup and offline mode
+ o IMAP: fix race when drafting while sending
+ o fixes to Mbox importing/exporting
+ o src/addressbook.c
+ fix bug where sometimes a group's email list is empty
+ o src/compose.c
+ fix various wrap/color issues
+ fix bug where attachments Name entry showed Path
+ set correct sensitivity on attachments popup menu
+ o src/ldapquery.c
+ fix segfault
+ o src/prefs_spelling.c
+ use 'en' dictionary by default if LANG is POSIX or C
+ fix crash when no LANG env is set
+ o src/plugins/pgpcore/sgpgme.c
+ Report error when there's one, instead of "Signature
+ unchecked"
+
For further details of the numbered bugs listed above consult
www.thewildbeast.co.uk/sylpheed-claws/bugzilla/index.cgi