-2nd July 2007 Claws Mail 2.10.0
+16th December 2011 Claws Mail 3.8.0
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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-
-libetpan 0.49 is now required for IMAP support
-
New in this release:
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-* Added "From, To or Subject" to the QuickSearch types.
-
-* Added handling of the 'a' key to loop through a mail's MIME parts.
-
-* In the Compose window "Add to address book" has been added to the
- context menu of the sender and recipient fields.
-
-* Implemented a proper References filtering condition.
-
-* Added the possibility to cancel receiving in IMAP accounts.
-
-* Made offline synchronisation faster.
-
-* Added an alternate way to fetch flags on IMAP, which improves
- performance with some servers, (like Exchange).
- See "Bandwidth-efficient mode" in IMAP accounts' Receive
- preferences.
-
-* Allow manual sorting of Templates.
-
-* Templates improvements: easier syntax, add some useful variables.
-
-* Implemented per-account and per-folder compose/reply/forward
- Templates.
-
-* Added a QuickSearch option to automatically run a search selected
- from the history.
+* GnuTLS 2.2 is now a minimum requirement if encrypted connections to
+ servers are required.
-* Made the Summaries Preferemces page "when entering a folder..."
- options fully customisable.
+* The list displays have been updated to use newer GTK+ functions,
+ this means that the expanders look different and the optional dotted
+ lines have been dropped.
-* Added an "Open last opened folder at startup" option to the
- Summaries page in the Prerferences.
+* A hidden option, 'summary_from_show', which controls the display in
+ the From column of the Message List: 0 (default): show name,
+ 1: show address, 2: show name + address
+
+* The image viewer now uses the EXIF Orientation.
+
+* 'Generate X-Mailer header' has been added as an Account option.
-* Changed the Preference "Only mark as read when opened in new
- window" on the Summaries page to "Only mark as read when opened
- in new window, or replied to".
+* /View/Message scroll has been added, allowing keyboard shortcuts to
+ be added and used for message scrolling.
-* Allow disabling mail filtering plugins on a per-account
- basis.
+* Home and End keys now function in the Message View.
-* Added an option to the Bogofilter and SpamAssassin plugins to
- enable marking saved spam as Read.
+* /Message/Print has been added to the Compose window.
-* Added a warning about encryption limits, which can be disabled.
+* Updated manuals
-* Removed the "Download all" preference from POP3 accounts; it
- was useless and confusing.
+* Update man page
-* Re-organized some Preferences page.
-
-* Replaced the tabbed layout in Account Preferences with pages.
-
-* Renamed 'Protocol Log' to 'Network Log'
-
-* Added a few cursor improvments while Claws is busy.
-
-* Added support for CRLF in headers of messages.
-
-* Added support for a few more date formats (RFC3339 subsets).
-
-* The keypad's Enter key now does the same as the Return key.
-
-* Improved LDIF import, better error handling, UI cleanup.
-
-* LDAP write support has been added.
-
-* Use Hildon's file chooser on Maemo.
-
-* Updated Brazilian Portuguese, British English, French, German,
- Hungarian, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Spanish translations.
+* Updated translations: Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, French,
+ Hungarian, Indonesian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Ukrainian.
* Bug fixes:
- o bug 848, 'Redirect breaks GnuPG'
- o bug 1217, 'reentrancy problems with time functions'
- o bug 1248, 'Core dumps after unloading plugin and clicking
- on load plugins'
- o bug 1249, 'Error handling for news errors needs
- modification'
- o Race condition when automatically drafting due to
- insertion on re-edit.
- o Consider "- -- \n" as signature separator (fixes signature
- stripping when replying to PGP/Inline signed emails).
- o Race condition crash when reconnection fails on IMAP.
- o Raising log windows when they are either minimized or in
- background.
- o Occasional crasher when cancelling message sending.
- o Stale news statusbar when scanning fails.
- o A few race conditions when sending/drafting emails.
- o Building of some plugins in Mac OS X.
- o Don't decode leading ENV_ and ~ in P_PASSWORD configuration
- values.
- o Incoming messages from local accounts always get filtered
- regardless of the preference.
- o Use gethostname() instead of uname(), fixes failures to
- determine hostname on some BSDs.
- o Crash if fork() fails when resolving hostnames.
- o Infinite loop when exiting with compose window(s) opened,
- when the draft folder is on IMAP and unreachable.
- o Sizing/alignment of the button bar in plugins window.
- o Copying text from HTML parts.
- o 'make distcheck' failure
-
+ o bug 1489, 'Filter action mark_as_read inoperative
+ following move action
+ o bug 1563, 'Folder view: show complete threads if they
+ contain unread messages'
+ o bug 1870, 'arrow scrolling in filters'
+ o bug 2116, 'Rip spaces off server names in account
+ configuration'
+ o bug 2127, 'SSL cert check uses canonical name instead of
+ specified name'
+ o bug 2177, 'addrbook/addrbook-00000?.xml is not deleted
+ after removing the address book in the GUI'
+ o bug 2303, 'Next unread message enables message view'
+ o bug 2310, 'Crash when hitting Ctrl+R to reply to a
+ particular mail'
+ o bug 2377, 'Show All Headers - make change persistent
+ between sessions'
+ o bug 2402, 'GnuTLS change breaks socket communication'
+ o bug 2404, 'matcherrc updates upon account renaming'
+ o bug 2406, 'some part of accountrc not updated upon account
+ rename'
+ o bug 2408, 'Some UI elements are not persistent between
+ sessions'
+ o bug 2422, 'Toggle Message View w/ V crashes Claws'
+ o bug 2479, 'LDIF address book import matches tags case
+ sensitive'
+ o bug 2481, 'do not scroll "from" dropdown list and sender
+ address'
+ o bug 2493, 'Subscription pull down should be alphabetized'
+ o bug 2502, 'gnutls_transport_set_lowat removed in gnutls
+ 3.0.3'
+ o bug 2505, 'tagsdb becomes polluted with old folder entries'
+ o bug 2509, 'manually added headers are lost unless mail is
+ sent inmediately'
+ o bug 2520, 'Please remove verbose "No further processing
+ after rule %s" message.'
+ o bug 2525, 'Address completion window does not get keyboard
+ focus'
+ o bug 2526, 'When reading message in separate window, n and p
+ keys do not work'
+ o bug 2529, 'crash in mimeview_start_drag after deleting
+ message'
+ o bug 2543, 'filter actions in actionsrc not updated upon
+ account renaming'
+ o bug 2560, 'crash when unsubscribing newsgroup and having
+ active search field'
+ o Fix focus problem on Gnome shell
+ o Fix flicker on recursive quicksearch
+ o Fix huge slowness induced by spellcheck "while typing"
+ during initial quote rewraps.
+ o Fix build with GLib 2.31.
+ o Fix crasher when spellchecking is not enabled
+ o Fix compose window size saving/restoring
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.