-8th January 2007 Claws Mail 2.7.0
+6th March 2009 Claws Mail 3.7.1
CLAWS MAIL RELEASE NOTES
http://www.claws-mail.org
Claws Mail is a GTK+ based, user-friendly, lightweight, and fast
email client.
-Claws Mail was previously known as Sylpheed-Claws.
-
New in this release:
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-* The --select option can now also select emails by Message-ID
-
-* Attaching files from 'mailto:' URIs (&attach=...) is now possible.
- A dialog is displayed to make sure that the user is aware that the
- mail will contain attachments
-
-* 'New Message format' has been added to the Compose/Writing options,
- this works like the Quote format and the same symbols are supported
-
-* Reworked the About dialog, including the addition of a new page,
- 'Features', which indicates which of the optional features are
- compiled in and which are not. A 'Release Notes' page was also
- added
-
-* Added history combo for all search fields (message and text)
-
-* The 'mark_as_read_delay' option is not hidden anymore and can be
- found in Configuration/Preferences/Summaries
-
-* Added global and per-folder preferences to set the default
- alternate dictionary
-
-* Allow spell-checking to use both current and alternate dictionaries
-
-* Added an hidden option 'addressbook_use_editaddress_dialog' to
- embed the contact editor in the addressbook window in contrast to
- a separate dialog
-
-* Added a hidden option 'unsafe_ssl_certs', to allow storing
- multiple SSL certificates for a given server/port. You will be
- asked to accept unknown certificates. Unchecking this option will
- require you to re-accept previously known certificates
+* Spell Checking has been added to the Subject in the Compose window.
-* Allow copying of folders between mailboxes
+* The 'Quotation characters' option has been moved from the Compose/
+ Writing page of the preferences to the /Message View/Text Options
+ page, where it should be.
-* Better automatic account selection for mailing lists (searches for
- the email address in the Delivered-To header also)
+* When replying to signed and/or encrypted mail and the preference to
+ sign and/or encrypt is set, the original mail's privacy system is
+ automatically used, if available.
-* Made the "Synchronise" menu item inactive when there's nothing to
- synchronise
+* If a text/calendar attachment is present in a message it is
+ automatcally selected if a suitable plugin (i.e. vCalendar) is
+ available.
-* Use Message font in Writing and Quoting preferences, as well as in
- Templates
+* /Tools/List URLs now shows both the link title and URI if possible.
-* Added more HTML symbols to the html to text converter
+* A URI appearing in the statusbar is now only trimmed if necessary.
-* Save the addressbook's window size on closing
+* When using /Tools/Create filter|procesing rule/Automatically
+ the List-Id header is preferred to X-* headers.
-* Better checks for syntax errors are applied to Templates and Quote
- formats
+* The manual has been updated.
-* Added a check to avoid trying to use a non-existent folder as
- default inbox
-
-* Enable setting SSL via STARTTLS from the set-up wizard
-
-* Added handling of ":port" in server addresses in the set-up wizard
- to specify a port to connect to
-
-* Bogofilter plugin: added an option to print the X-Claws-Bogosity
- header in emails handled by the Bogofilter plugin (in MH folders
- only)
-
-* Bogofilter plugin: added an option to whitelist senders found in
- addressbook
-
-* Bogofilter plugin: Allow storing of Unsure mails in a specific
- folder to make better teaching easier
-
-* Bogofilter plugin: Improved GUI interaction while Bogofilter is
- filtering
-
-* TrayIcon plugin: added an "Email from account/..." submenu
-
-* updated Brazilian Portuguese, British English, Catalan, Finnish,
- French, Italian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, and Spanish
- translations
+* Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French,
+ German, Hungarian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish and Swedish
+ translations.
* Bug fixes:
- o bug 934, 'sylpheed claws 2.1 doesn't show Exchanges Public
- Folders'
- o bug 1052, 'templates %d and %D{fmt} broken but %af works
- fine'
- o bug 1055, 'Add the 'cancel receive' in the available events
- for the toolbar buttons'
- o bug 1059, 'Better jpilot charset handling'
- o bug 1064, 'crash @ etpan_certificate_check() when opening
- an IMAP folder'
- o bug 1067, 'Claws-Mail uses 100% CPU on an IMAP folder and is
- blocked on main thread'
- o bug 1072, 'Claws stops fetching newsgroups from server when
- newsgroup got deleted'
- o bug 1076, 'privacy options are displayed even when pgp
- plugin not loaded / available'
- o bug 1077, 'sylpheed-claws does not start when IMAP server
- is unavailable'
- o bug 1080, 'Using SSL option in wizard for incoming server
- does not activate SSL with STARTTLS'
- o bug 1081, 'claws-mail segfaults when going offline while it
- transfers mails via imap'
- o bug 1082, 'incorrect / imprecise error message when imap
- server provides ssl only through STARTTLS but
- SSL is selected'
- o bug 1085, 'Apply to subfolder doesn't work'
- o bug 1088, 'ctrl-h produces repeatable crash'.
- o bug 1089, 'NUL characters in Subject line are
- misinterpreted'
- o fixed encoding of headers in the welcome message
- o fixed some sensitivity issues in preferences
- o fixed crash when using Hide read messages with Mark as read
- delay
- o fixed parsing of mailcap files with tabs
- o fixed address comparison when replying to all (it was
- possible to reply to ourselves if the case was
- different)
- o fixed folder's cache update after running an Action
- o fixed hiding of Quicksearch with Esc
- o fixed printing of selection, message part, and images
- o fixed page count in printing
- o IMAP: Fix failure to get separator on LIST "" ""
- o change manual's target dir to be LFH-compliant
- o some compilation warning fixes
- o don't warn about empty subject when redirecting emails
- o fix scrolling of log window
- o partial download: Fix Mark for download/deletion when
- the relevant header is not the first one
- o fixed slowness when appending on IMAP
- o fixed wrong state of test regexp in folder preferences
- o made desktop and icon files not dependant on GNOME 2
- o fixed a little memory leak in the addressbook
- o don't display errors when synchronising IMAP mailboxes that
- have non selectable folders
- o When possible, move messages from Queue to Sent instead of
- copying and deleting
- o don't use any MimeViewer plugin when showing all headers
- o tools/maildir2claws-mail.pl: Only substitute 'sent-mail'
- if it's the full directory name
- o disable Control-Space (handle it as Space).
+ o bug 1432, '& not escaped in links (HTML rendered as
+ text)'
+ o bug 1506, 'Recursive search in collapsed folders'
+ o bug 1799, '"Discard message" deletes manually saved draft'
+ o bug 1804, 'attach_save_directory does not default to $HOME'
+ o bug 1811, '[mime] Crash when there's no room for filename's
+ start on the same line'
+ o bug 1817, 'Changing Themes does not update the pixmaps in
+ "Select folder" dialog box'
+ o bug 1825, 'Unable to fetch messages from IMAP folders named
+ with non-ASCII string'
+ o bug 1834, '"semi"-selection when collapsing thread'
+ o bug 1838, 'Claws-Mail sometimes quits when attempting to
+ type a capital Q'
+ o bug 1840, 'margins for printing not restored'
+ o Launchpad bug 335571: 'claws-mail crashed with SIGSEGV in
+ strlen() while deleting large amount of e-mails on IMAP
+ account'
+ o fix font updating after changing derive_from_normal_font
+ o fix build for bison 2.4.1
+ o fix bug where if plugin path[0] had same name as plugin
+ path[1], (like in the de translation), the plugin path[1]
+ page was lost and not shown in the GUI
+ o fix updating of summaryview popup menu sensitivity
+ o fix crash when right-clicking in summaryview when
+ processing is active
+ o fix synchronisation dialog that shouldn't appear when
+ network goes down (Network Manager)
+ o Disable use of disabled privacy keys
+ o Win32: bug 1810, 'Pressing 'o' key crashes CM'
+ o Win32: bug 1813, 'Installing Theme Creates Error'
+ o Win32: bug 1814, 'Windows' WM badly places message view'
+ o Win32: bug 1815, 'Drag-n-Drop of files on Compose Window
+ does not attach'
+ o Win32: bug 1816, 'Attaching files with command-line
+ generates error after attaching'
+ o Win32: bug 1865, 'IMAP account name changes are not
+ followed at filter actions'
+ o Win32: fix window placement
For further details of the numbered bugs listed above consult
http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/index.cgi
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See ChangeLog for full information regarding changes in this release.
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