-30th January 2006 Sylpheed-Claws 2.0.0
+8th May 2006 Sylpheed-Claws 2.2.0
SYLPHEED-CLAWS RELEASE NOTES
http://claws.sylpheed.org
-Sylpheed-Claws is the extended version of Sylpheed, a GTK+ based,
-lightweight, and fast e-mail client
+Sylpheed-Claws is a GTK+ based, user-friendly, lightweight, and fast
+email client.
Notes for this release:
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-* libetpan >= 0.41 is now required for IMAP support
+* S/MIME signature verification has been removed from the PGP/MIME
+ plugin as it is now provided by the S/MIME plugin.
New in this release:
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-Manual
-------
-* A new and completely rewritten manual has been added.
- It is accessible using your browser by clicking '/Help/Manual' on
- the main toolbar.
+* IMAP users will see significant speed improvements.
-Icon legend
------------
-* An icon legend window has been added to the Help menu, accessible
- by clicking '/Help/Icon legend' on the main toolbar.
+* ANONYMOUS auth has been added for IMAP
-Priting
--------
-* Attached images can now be printed along with the message when using
- the optional libgnomeprintui support.
+* In the Compose window all spell-checker options are now available
+ from the /Spelling/Options menu.
+
+* Syntax errors in the extended Quick Search are now indicated by
+ a pink/red background.
-Command line usage
-------------------
-* '--exit' has been added.
+* An encrypt-to-self option has been added to the Account Privacy
+ options.
-* '--subscribe' has been added.
- Calling sylpheed-claws --subscribe '%s' will ask the loaded plugins
- if they can handle the type of URL passed as a parameter. Thus, if
- using the RSSyl or vCalendar plugins, for example, the user will be
- able to subscribe RSS feeds or Webcals from the browser.
+* Sysadmins can now provide their users with pre-filled values in
+ the Setup Wizard. See the manual, '6.6. Deploying Sylpheed-Claws',
+ for details.
-* sylpheed-claws email@domain.com is now equivalent to --compose
+* Various GUI improvements have been added.
-* sylpheed-claws proto://blah.com is equivalent to --subscribe
+* A new command line option has been added: --select 'folder[/msg]'
+ This can be used at startup and causes the specified folder/message
+ to be selected. 'folder' is a folder id like '#mh/Mailbox/inbox'
-GUI improvements
-----------------
-* HIG compliant button order has been implemented.
+* Optional background colouring of quotes has been added. It can be
+ configured from the Colour Preferences dialogue.
+ GTK+-2.8.x or newer is required for this feature.
-* Several dialogues throughout have been improved.
+* In the Compose window, multiple quote levels are now coloured in
+ the same way as the Message View.
-Main Toolbar
-------------
-* Text can now also been displayed next to the icons.
+* A warning is now displayed on expired SSL certificates and the
+ expiration date is shown.
-* Quick mail retrieval from any account is now possible due to the
- account submenu which has been added to the 'Get All' button.
+* A hidden option has been added, 'compose_no_markup', this prohibits
+ the use of bold and italic text in Compose dialogue's account
+ selector.
-Compose window
---------------
-* The spellchecker context menu in the compose window has been added
- to the standard GtkTextView menu instead of replacing it.
+* LDAPS support has been added.
-* The Subject in the window title now updates instantaneously.
+* The user manual has been updated, and French and Polish
+ translations are now also included.
-* The mimetypes list in the attachment pane is now alphabetically
- ordered.
-
-Message View
-------------
-* The email and URI parsers have been enhanced.
-
-Quick Search
-------------
-* In Extended mode, a '...' button has been added, this provides the
- user with a dialogue enabling the quick formation of search
- criteria.
-
-* Do not refocus quick search after executing (Esc or Enter). This
- enables using the '/' shortcut key, search for something, then move
- up/down in the message list, and then Esc a search and be back in
- the folder list.
-
-* When quick search is activated, the entry box is given a yellow
- background for greater visibility.
-
-Address book
-------------
-* The LDAP search in the address book now supports wildcard searching
- using '*'.
-
-Preferences
------------
-* The option 'Go to inbox after receiving new mail' has been moved
- from 'Display/Summaries' to 'Mail handling/Receive'.
-
-* The 'Wrap at send' option has been removed.
-
-* Colour preferences have been moved from '/Message View/Colors' to
- '/Display/Colors'.
-
-* The previously hidden option, color_new, has been added to the GUI
- as '/Display/Colors/Folder' containing new messages.
-
-Plugins
--------
-* The spamassassin and spamassassin_gtk plugins have been merged into
- one single plugin, and this plugin is now built by default if the
- requirements are matched.
-
-* The clamav and clamav_gtk plugins have been merged into one single
- plugin.
-
-* GnuPG support: Add support for PKA info if available
-
-* The PGP/Inline plugin now supports Content-Type 'application/pgp'.
-
-* A check to verify that plugins are licenced under a GPL-compatible
- licence has been added.
-
-* The unmaintained mathml_viewer plugin has been removed.
-
-Tools
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-* Add filter_conv_new.pl.
- Converts the new style Sylpheed filter rules (Sylpheed >= 0.9.99)
- to Claws filtering rules.
-
-Translations
-------------
-* new Greek and Swedish translations.
-
-* updated Brazilian Portuguese, British English, Dutch, Finnish,
- French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Slovak, Serbian,
- Simplified Chinese, Spanish, and Traditional Chinese translations.
+* updated Brazilian Portuguese, British English, Czech, Dutch,
+ Finnish, French, German, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, and
+ Spanish translations.
* Bugfixes:
- o bug 843, 'Inbox cannot be changed for local mailboxes'
- o bug 845, 'sylpheed-claws 1.9.99+ start in minimised state'
- o bug 856, 'reediting messages forgets Request Return
- Receipt'
- o bug 862, 'undo of wrapped, pasted text deletes part of
- message'
- o bug 863, 'windows-1252 encoding option missing from message
- view window'
- o bug 866, 'Show key id when missing'
- o bug 867, 'Report also key trust'
- o bug 875, 'Freeze On Inline Forward of Large Message'
- o bug 882, 'quick scroll in folder list displays wrong folder
- contents'
- o bug 883, 'default inbox does not track folder move'
- o bug 884, ''Send receipt' button visible in queue'
- o bug 888, '2.0.0rc3 not displaying image in message view'
- o bug 896, 'PT_BR locale broken'
- o bug 897, 'message header is resetted if one is copied to
- Drafts'
- o crash when closing description windows using the WM's [X]
- button
- o crash when copying/moving message(s) from and to the same
- folder
- o missing listing of text/* attachments in the message view
- o Filtering ~message, ~headers_part, ~body_part rules
- o possible crash on connection failure when sending
- o crashes in prefs after unloading Spamassassin or Clamav
- plugins
- o spurious displaying on message when "Always open messages"
- isn't set
- o last-used directory for loading attachments wasn't cached
- o assertion failure in msgcache_add_msg
- o cursor positioning not obeying %X
- o don't deselect stuff in compose window before right-
- clicking, with aspell.
- o autosave on IMAP
- o copying/moving between normal and draft/queue in IMAP
- o occasional failure in fetching a mail over IMAP
- o don't remove a draft when sending it, if it is locked
- o wrapping issues
- o prevent mail from being lost without notice when an SMTP
- error happens on trying to send an unmodified drafted mail
- o forget SMTP password if wrong
- o recursive prefs apply
- o attach_load_dir set to PLUGINDIR on plugin load
- o possible crashes on exit and in addressbook
- o allow templates without text
- o deselection of text when right-clicking in Compose windows
- o automatic encoding in some corner-cases
- o 'Get Mail' sensitivity in the Trayicon Plugin
- o 'Trash' sensitivity when receiving
- o don't start the wizard when folders exist, even if they are
- unloaded
- o update the default keybinds
+ o bug 859, 'problems with cyrilic input in search panel'
+ o bug 912, '"new" count randomly set to message count'
+ o bug 919, 'libetpan: SEGV when connecting using command'
+ o bug 925, 'File accountrc does not store non-ascii
+ characters correctly'
+ o bug 933, 'Crash re-entering the custom headers list dialog
+ in accounts prefs'
+ o bug 943, 'Incorrectly parsed email address list in short
+ headers on message view and in printouts'
+ * src/compose.c
+ Fix inserting files not in utf8 when locale is utf8
+ * Don't show error dialog when cancelling connection
+ * src/summary_search.c
+ 'stop' button was sticky when searching in an empty
+ folder.
+ * src/addressbook.c
+ Fix crash with empty columns
+ * src/plugins/spamassassin/spamassassin_gtk.c
+ Fix missing set_text on unix socket
+ * src/send_message.c
+ enforce a check for domain in account prefs (a
+ sending error could be faced if domain was checked
+ but no value set)
+ * src/prefs_matcher.c
+ Fix values when reselecting a ~test rule
+ * IMAP: fix preventing renaming with namespace separator
+ * Fix build on DragonFly
+ * Fix occasional flicker in folderview
+ * Fix crash on redirect (related to the return of the aspell
+ menu in compose's toolbar)
+ * Fix returned quick search results when search term contains
+ an underscore
For further details of the numbered bugs listed above consult
-www.thewildbeast.co.uk/sylpheed-claws/bugzilla/index.cgi
+http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/sylpheed-claws/bugzilla/index.cgi
* and other code reorganisation, cleanups, and more.