-27th June 2008 Claws Mail 3.5.0
+6th May 2013 Claws Mail 3.9.1
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:
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-
-* IMAP with STARTTLS
- The certificate port on TLS was fixed, however this will trigger
- one wrong 'New certificate' warning on the first connection.
-
New in this release:
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-* Added an option, "Use secure file deletion if possible", which
- enables shredding of temporary files and messages instead of
- just removing them. This is available on the Other preferences
- page.
+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.
-* Added an option, "Select the HTML part of multipart/alternative
- messages". This is available on the Message View/Text Options
- preferences page.
+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 an option to the 'Create new folder' dialogue which enables
- new folders to inherit the properties of their parent folders
- during folder creation.
+* 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.
-* Added a hidden option, "two_line_vertical", which toggles the
- 2-line view in the message list when using the 3-column layout.
- Defaults to '1', show 2 lines.
+* '/Message/Cancel sending' has been added to the main menu.
-* Added a hidden option, "outgoing_fallback_to_ascii", which allows
- the user to specify an outgoing charset/encoding, but still fall
- back to 7bit US-ASCII when possible.
- Defaults to '1', fallback when possible.
+* In the filtering and processing condition configuration for Age,
+ it is now possible to match based on number of hours.
-* Added support for the Avant Window Navgator (Awn) information
- bubble. This is automatically enabled if dbus is available.
+* The GnuPG signature timestamp is now displayed in the full
+ signature information
-* Face and X-Face headers can now be added globally and per-account
- from configuration files under ~/.claws-mail/autofaces/. Further
- information is provided in the manual.
+* 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.
-* The SHA1 fingerprint is now shown on the SSL certificate dialogue
- and the labels are now selectable.
+* Keep-alive pings are now performed on IMAP and NNTP connections.
-* Several GUI improvements have been made, (Address book, filtering
- dialogue, Actions dialogue, and Account preferences).
+* 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.
-* New icons have been added for 'Reply to list' and 'Cancel'. The
- 'Insert file' and 'Close' icons have been improved, as have the
- tray icons.
+* PDF Viewer: The printed PDF quality has been improved.
-* Added the Trash and Delete icons to the Custom Toolbars options.
+* 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.
-* SMTP-only accounts are now not shown in the Receive menus and
- Account lists in filtering/processing, as they are irrelevant here.
+* Python plugin: Added examples.
-* tools/csv2addressbook.pl
- Support for a gmail exported csv address book was added.
+* Python plugin: Added a function to get an arbitrary header from a
+ MessageInfo object
-* Updated English, French, and Spanish manuals.
+* Perl plugin: The documentation for insert_perl.pl has been
+ improved.
-* Updated translations: Brazilian Portuguese, Finnish, French,
- German, and Spanish.
+* Basic handling of vcard 3.0 has been added to vcard2xml.py.
-* Removed unmaintained translations: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech,
- Dutch, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Russian,
- Swedish, and Taiwanese. (New maintainers are very welcome,
- contact paul@claws-mail.org)
+* A Swedish translation has been added to claws-mail.desktop.
+
+* The man page has been updated.
-* Bug fixes:
- o bug 1447, 'If user tries to close while starting up, it
- will not close ever.'
- o bug 1566, 'too short I/O timeout on OpenBSD'
- o bug 1576, 'Curly brace literals reported as error in
- message template'
- o bug 1581, 'Bad File Format during Import LDIF'
- o bug 1586, '3-pane vertical layout now and then still shows
- sender column'
- o bug 1587, 'can not replay with quote'
- o bug 1589, 'tagsdb file not removed when folder deleted'
- o bug 1597, 'In news folders, "Move Message to Wastebin" icon
- isn't grayed although ineffective'
- o bug 1598, 'Leading slash while translating "Unsubscribe"'
- o bug 1599, 'attach multiple files with the same name from
- one mail to another'
- o bug 1602, 'Crash when sending return receipt for messages
- with no subject'
- o bug 1604, 'found_in_addressbook "From" in "Any" in non
- english local'
- o bug 1608, 'Inconsistent behaviour of mark as read options'
- o bug 1610, 'claws crash after opening/closing preferences
- and window update'
- o bug 1613, 'Various memory leaks'
- o bug 1615, 'hang on FIFO when the other end's not opened'
- o bug 1616, 'strange question while emptying trash'
- o bug 1623, 'exits with segfault when logging in to certain
- imap-servers'
- o bug 1624, '[PATCH] Quick search should be disabled for
- folder view'
- o bug 1628, 'Claws Mail crashes when filtering selected
- messages'
- o bug 1635, 'Last character of message is truncated when
- changing accounts w/ sigs'
- o bug 1636, 'Can't select "properties" on "folders only"
- folders'
- o bug 1650, 'Message line too small after changing columns in
- "three columns" layout'
- o Use g_(un)setenv instead of (un)setenv which doesn't exist
- on IRIX 6.5.
- o Fix 'Delete line' and 'Delete to end of line' on the last
- line.
- o Fix double free when STARTTLS fails
- o Fix ldap deprecated calls
- o Fix debian bug 481856, 'Segmentation fault when verifying a
- GPG signature'
- o Fix cursor placing on signature change
- o tools/thunderbird-filters-convertor.pl
- Fix reading a tb rule that contains something like that:
- \"Sender\"
+* Updated translations: Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Finnish, French,
+ German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish
+* Bug fixes:
+ 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.