-17th December 2007 Claws Mail 3.2.0
+6th May 2013 Claws Mail 3.9.1
CLAWS MAIL RELEASE NOTES
http://www.claws-mail.org
New in this release:
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-* Several GUI improvements
- The colour preferences have been split into tabs.
- Improve the way 'Find in current message' search results are
- shown by vertically centering the selected text in the
- Message View.
- Improvements to the 'List URIs' dialogue.
- Filtering/Processing Match Type dialogue has been reworked.
- Several other layout improvements.
+All plugins previously packaged as 'Extra Plugins' are now contained
+within the Claws Mail package. In addition to that, the following
+plugins have been dropped: TrayIcon, Dillo Viewer, and Gtkhtml2
+Viewer.
-* Several address book improvements
- Added Custom Attributes, which can be edited from
- '/Tools/Edit custom attributes...' and are used from the
- 'Name' drop down list on the 'Edit Person Details' dialogue.
- Always add a new contact if any value is set, instead of
- silently rejecting it when an email address is not set.
- Better guessing of contact name from incomplete name
- information.
- Better display of contacts that have no name set, in contact
- lists, group contents, find duplicate results.
- Error messages don't show in the status bar anymore, alert
- panels are used instead.
- Several other GUI improvements.
+This release contains the following plugins: ACPI Notifier, Address
+Keeper, Attachment Remover, Attachment Warner, Bogofilter, BS Filter,
+Clam AntiVirus, Fancy HTML Viewer, FetchInfo, gData, GeoLocation,
+Mail Archiver, MailMBOX, New Mail, Notification, PDF Viewer, Perl,
+PGP/Core, PGP/Inline, PGP/MIME, Python, RSSyl, SMime, Spam Report,
+SpamAssassin, TNEF Parse, and vCalendar.
-* Added optional Tooltips to the Message List. This is enabled by the
- 'Show tooltips' option on the '/Display/Summaries' Preferences page
- and is only possible with GTK+ >= 2.12
+* 3 command-line switches have been added:
+ --cancel-receiving which cancels the currently running message
+ retrieval operation
+ --cancel-sending which cancels the currently running message
+ sending operation
+ --debug which toggles debug output.
-* Much improved handling of Return Receipts, both outgoing and
- incoming.
+* '/Message/Cancel sending' has been added to the main menu.
-* Added the option to use the system defaults for External Programs
- preferences on the '/Message View/External Programs' page.
+* In the filtering and processing condition configuration for Age,
+ it is now possible to match based on number of hours.
-* Added "select first email in list" to the list of possible
- selections in the 'Set default selection on entering a folder'
- options on the '/Display/Summaries' preferences page.
+* The GnuPG signature timestamp is now displayed in the full
+ signature information
-* IMAP: Added IMAP tags support. (Note: 'Bandwidth-efficient' mode
- prevents fetching of tags.)
+* Support for GnuTLS priority string has been added. This is achieved
+ via 2 hidden account preferences, gnutls_set_priority and
+ gnutls_priority. The former turning the option on or off, the
+ latter containing the required priority string.
-* IMAP: Optimised flag handling and message copying.
+* Keep-alive pings are now performed on IMAP and NNTP connections.
-* Improved printed page layout for built-in GTK+ printing
- Bold fonts are now used where appropriate and a demarcation
- between header and body has been added.
+* In the Compose window, the focus is now moved to the message body
+ when focus is in the Subject entry and the Enter key is pressed.
+
+* The Delete key can now be used to remove Colour Label hotkeys.
-* Optimised filtering on flags/tags changes.
+* PDF Viewer: The printed PDF quality has been improved.
-* MAEMO: Added LED flashing for new mail alerts
+* Fancy HTML viewer: The options dialogue has been completely
+ reworked, and disabling remote content is now totally strict.
+
+* Python plugin: Added Cc field to messageinfo objects.
-* MAEMO: Made all of the left of column in the Folder List a hotspot
- for expanding/collapsing the tree.
+* Python plugin: Added examples.
-* Updated translations: Brazilian Portuguese, French, German,
- Hungarian, Italian, and Spanish
+* Python plugin: Added a function to get an arbitrary header from a
+ MessageInfo object
+
+* Perl plugin: The documentation for insert_perl.pl has been
+ improved.
+
+* Basic handling of vcard 3.0 has been added to vcard2xml.py.
+
+* A Swedish translation has been added to claws-mail.desktop.
+
+* The man page has been updated.
+
+* Updated translations: Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Finnish, French,
+ German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish
* Bug fixes:
- o bug 1378, 'Claws exits on IMAP alert message'
- o bug 1392, 'Top level domain .EU is not recognised as valid'
- o bug 1395, 'Crash on checking for new mails while filter is
- running'
- o bug 1396, 'Crash on disabling a filter while it is
- processing'
- o bug 1400, 'Drag and drop of URLs does not work'
- o bug 1402, 'Photo lost when moving address book cards'
- o bug 1405, 'imap auto auth method doesn't work since 3.1.0'
- o bug 1407, 'After a copy action, further rules apply to both
- original and copy'
- o bug 1410, 'CM crashed while closing :-('
- o bug 1417, 'Network log doesn't reveal enough NNTP errors'
- o bug 1419, 'Seg fault when trying to choose key bindings'
- o debian bug 453157, 'Fails to post usenet articles after
- NNTP connection has been interrupted'
- o debian bug 454089, 'CVE-2007-6208 insecure tmp file
- handling in sylprint.pl prone to
- symlink attack' (Removed sylprint.pl)
- o user themes dir was not set properly and some themes might
- have disappeared from themes list in prefs.
- o NNTP: Fix UTF-8 being sent when encoding is 8bit
- o vCard: Fix QP decoding (and UTF8)
- o IMAP: Fix M-UTF7 in subscription dialog.
- o Fix potential buffer overrun
+ o bug 1137, 'loading plugins with same profile on different
+ archs'
+ o bug 1684, 'view news messages with large attachements
+ segfaults'
+ o bug 1963, 'Preferences Templates Information Window Focus
+ loss'
+ o bug 2340, 'Create block list'
+ o bug 2617, 'code cleanup'
+ o bug 2624, 'dialog "Action Configuration" cannot be closed'
+ o bug 2702, 'Support splitting subject line for small screen
+ layout'
+ o bug 2774, 'Select folder/New Folder dialog - modal problem'
+ o bug 2785, 'Marking mails for deletion reopens internal
+ message view'
+ o bug 2801, 'Filtering Header:Name list is blank/corrupt'
+ o bug 2826, 'replace deprecated gnutls function'
+ o bug 2828, 'Use MD5 digest for socket name'
+ o bug 2832, 'mail to from adress-book splitt names'
+ o bug 2835, 'add_address() in addr_compl.c should allow a
+ NULL name'
+ o bug 2859, 'Newmail plugin doesn't work if Mail folder not
+ present when it is loaded.'
+ o bug 2862, 'Segmentation fault when replying to a message
+ where the "code conversion" fails'
+ o bug 2863, 'Applying has_attachment quicksearch on IMAP
+ segfaults'
+ o bug 2878 'bsfilter / folder.c:1435 Condition identifier
+ != NULL failed'
+ o bug 2879, 'Plain text mails treated as encrypted'
+ o bug 2882, 'Reverse preference for external content'
+ o bug 2885, 'SIGSEGV in hooks_marshal at hooks.c:108'
+ o bug 2890, 'html2ps required...'
+ o bug 2893, 'ical_yy_scan_bytes has wrong type'
+ o bug 2903, 'key 'C' mention harcoded in string'
+ o bug 2909, 'Changing folder quickly can cause wrong email to
+ be deleted'
+ o IMAP: Don't set charset on simple searches. Fixes Exchange
+ 2007.
+ o Disconnect NNTP accounts too when switching offline.
+ o Fix sensitivity of next-unread toolbar button.
+ o tools/gif2xface.pl, tools/outlook2claws-mail.pl: Fix
+ address.
+ o Add missing \n at end of the return receipt last part's
+ headers.
+ o Make LDAP over SSL work on Win32.
+ o Fix crash on action error.
+ o Fix trimming of leading spaces in actions.
+ o tools/vcard2xml.py: Fix missing file encoding info.
+ o fix sensitivity of 'Use both dictionaries' in compose
+ window.
+ o Fix actions with spaces (and quotes).
+ o tools/vcard2xml.py: Lines split over more than one line
+ breaks parser; Get email addres correct. Not only
+ email;internet.
+ o Escape filename/description text of MIME parts, prevents
+ error if, e.g., the filename contains an ampersand.
+ o Fix 'edit accounts' windows going behind when leaving an
+ 'account preferences' window, by re-focusing this window.
+ o Fix crash closing PDF information alert panel.
+ o Fix default fonts on Windows.
+ o Fix ugly icon in XFCE's alt-tab window.
+ o Fix untranslated description in archiver plugin
+ o fix crasher when using /Edit/Search folder on start-up with
+ nothing selected.
For further details of the numbered bugs listed above consult
-http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/index.cgi
+http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/
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See ChangeLog for full information regarding changes in this release.