-17th December 2007 Claws Mail 3.2.0
+18th April 2008 Claws Mail 3.4.0
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.
+* Added support for /dev/mem_notify. This Linux kernel feature
+ will allow applications to be notified that memory has to be
+ freed before getting OOM-killed.
+ For more information: http://lwn.net/Articles/267013/
-* 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.
+* Enabled moving/copying folders to root folders when using the
+ folder selection dialogue.
-* 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
+* Global and per-folder templates can now override the From name.
-* Much improved handling of Return Receipts, both outgoing and
- incoming.
+* Added a tooltip with extended folder stats. (Hover the cursor over
+ the short stats on the right, below the message list.)
-* Added the option to use the system defaults for External Programs
- preferences on the '/Message View/External Programs' page.
+* Implemented 2-line items in the message list when in three column
+ mode.
-* 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.
+* Added support for png themes.
-* IMAP: Added IMAP tags support. (Note: 'Bandwidth-efficient' mode
- prevents fetching of tags.)
+* Added an icon for attached patches (text/x-patch and text/x-diff).
-* IMAP: Optimised flag handling and message copying.
+* When viewing a message that has a large amount of text, show a
+ maximum of 1MB of text and add a noticeview to show optionally show
+ the whole message.
-* 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.
+* Added a button to the templates preferences to restore defaults for
+ current language.
-* Optimised filtering on flags/tags changes.
+* Added search in filtering rules list.
-* MAEMO: Added LED flashing for new mail alerts
+* Bogofilter Plugin:
+ Added a "learn from whitelist" preference.
-* MAEMO: Made all of the left of column in the Folder List a hotspot
- for expanding/collapsing the tree.
+* MAEMO:
+ Added information when fetching large messages.
-* Updated translations: Brazilian Portuguese, French, German,
- Hungarian, Italian, and Spanish
+* tools/csv2addressbook.pl
+ Added support for Kmail/Kaddressbook.
+
+* Updated translations: Brazilian Portuguese, Finnish, French,
+ German, and Italian.
* 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 1494, 'Trayicon plugin breaks UI...' (MAEMO)
+ o bug 1515, 'large messages crash claws when syncing for
+ offline mode'
+ o bug 1532, '"login refused" message insufficiently
+ detailed'
+ o bug 1533, 'Claws is unable to mark messages as "read" in
+ IMAP shared folders'
+ o bug 1534, 'Segmentation fault when doing some draft saving
+ and then throwing away'
+ o bug 1539, 'Program crashes':
+ Setup Gcrypt's thread functions when built with
+ GnuTLS
+ o bug 1541, 'Deleting message from within read window
+ displays next message then closes.' (MAEMO)
+ o bug 1553, 'File lock not respected'
+ o bug 1555, 'Bug with the feature "save a copy of outgoing
+ messages in this folder"'
+ o bug 1559, 'Claws Mail crashed deleting all common contacts'
+ o bug 1561, 'Crashes leaving unsubscribed folder after
+ ticking "Show only subscribed"'
+ o bug 1562, 'Claws-Mail does not completely respect settings
+ in GTK2_RC_FILES environment'
+ o Fix blinking of the taskbar entry.
+ o Fix folder view's scrollbar at startup if starting hidden.
+ o If no MH mailbox and no account exists, when creating a
+ POP/Local account, just create it and use the default one
+ instead of bailing with a "Mailbox doesn't exist" error.
+ o Clean up session disconnection. Possibly fix Ubuntu bug
+ #204290
+ o Fix RedHat bug 431735, 'segfault if /home is full'
+ o Fix compose template formats (in global preferences)
+ getting translated under specific conditions.
+ o Fix updating of tags menu.
+ o Fix log size getting out of control (claws-mail getting
+ SIGXFSZ): rotate if every 10MB.
+ o Fix debian bug 474712, 'claws seg faults when IMAP
+ connection breaks after an IMAP protocol error (BAD UID
+ SEARCH Invalid parameter: $Forwarded)]'
For further details of the numbered bugs listed above consult
http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/index.cgi