-3rd September 2007 Claws Mail 3.0.0
+9th October 2009 Claws Mail 3.7.3
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:
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-* 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
+* The user is now warned when inserting a large file in the message
+ body. The value of 'large' can be configured on the Compose/Writing
+ page of the Preferences.
+
+* Added 'has_attachment' and 'signed' matcher expressions to
+ Filtering and Processing Flags lists.
+
+* Support Reply prefixes of French Yahoo mail and French Lotus Notes.
+
+* Enabled Page Size and Orientation configuration in the print dialog.
+ GTK+ 2.18 or newer only.
+
+* tools/convert_mbox.pl
+ Add -R flag to support recursive conversions of arbitrary Evolution
+ mail folders.
+
+* Updated user manual.
+
+* Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, French, German, Hungarian,
+ Indonesian, Japanese, and Polish translations.
+
+* Bug fixes:
+ o bug 1949, 'Spell checker doesn't recognise certain word in
+ Subject header, but does in message body'
+ o bug 1951, 'C-Mail dumps core when editing displayed
+ headers'
+ o bug 1952, 'Deleted mails in Queue folder highlight it'
+ o bug 1954, 'Segfault on reading wrong STATUS'
+ o bug 1957, 'LDAP errs out after searching too many search
+ bases'
+ o bug 1966, '"Collapse all threads" slower than "Expand all
+ threads"'
+ o bug 1967, 'Claws gets stuck after accepting a certificate
+ warning dialog'
+ o bug 1969, 'Bad guess for outgoing encoding'
+ o bug 1984, 'Claws Mail does not support the anwser prefix
+ used by French Lotus Notes'
+ o bug 1994, 'Changing colors required restart.'
+ o bug 2003, 'Address gathering dialog minor bugs/annoyances'
+ o bug 2006, 'Non-utf8 strftime(3) date strings shows up
+ garbled in GUI'
+ o bug 2007, 'Small memory leaks'
+ o bug 2008, 'Claws-Mail doesn't refresh after deletion'
+ o bug 2009, 'Incorrect pointer representation with GTK+2.18'
+ o Debian bug 530057: 'claws-mail-tools: bashism in /bin/sh
+ script'
+ o Redhat bug 512024, 'folder.c:3543 Condition
+ msglist != NULL failed'
+ o fix displaying Base64 parts with decoding errors (parts
+ without errors get displayed)
+ o fix disappearing folderview icons on main toolbar update
+ o fix crash on non-existent LDAP server
+ o fix toolbar spacing that breaks dark themes
For further details of the numbered bugs listed above consult
http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/index.cgi
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