-27th June 2008 Claws Mail 3.5.0
+14th December 2013 Claws Mail 3.9.3
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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-
-* Claws Mail now requires libetpan 0.56 for IMAP and NNTP
-
-* Spell checking is now provided by Enchant instead of Aspell. To
- build spell checker support, you will need the libenchant headers.
-
-* The S/MIME plugin is now part of this package.
-
-* IMAP, NNTP, and SSL are now supported in the Windows port.
-
New in this release:
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-* Support for client SSL certificates.
-
-* Better support of SSL certificate stores, to be able to verify
- server certificates.
-
-* Renaming of newsgroups is possible.
-
-* "Always open message when selected" can now have three values:
- 'Never', 'Always' and 'When message view is visible'.
-
-* Unsaved server passwords can now be temporarily saved for the
- duration of the session. They can be cleared before the session
- expires by using '/Tools/Forget all session passwords'.
-
-* Auto-wrapping settings are now saved in drafted messages.
+* The TAB address completion in the Compose window now matches any
+ part of the address and not just the beginning.
-* Support for basic auto-indentation in the Compose window.
+* When copying or moving a message, the type-ahead search now matches
+ any part of a folder name and not just the beginning.
-* Support for animated GIFs in the message view.
+* It is now possible to replace the current signature in the Compose
+ window by using the '/Message/Replace signature' menu item.
-* Type-ahead search in Filtering, Templates, Actions dialogs now
- select the result of the search.
+* It is now possible to disable the 'Subject is empty' warning
+ dialogue. See the option 'Warn when Subject is empty' option on the
+ '/Configuration/Preferences/Mail handling/Sending' page.
+
+* When sending messages, if the hostname cannot be determined,
+ fallback to 'localhost' rather than 'unknown', as the latter is
+ rejected by some servers.
-* Finer granularity in POP3 accounts' Remove After delay - hours in
- addition to days.
+* Added better handling of messages from broken mailers, such as
+ yahoo groups.
-* Spam/Ham flag is now stored on IMAP server when possible, using
- "Junk" and "NonJunk" keywords.
+* PDF plugin: the minimum required version of poppler is 0.12.0.
-* Use less precise intervals when possible for auto-checking, thus
- the CPU is woken up less frequently.
+* PGP/* plugin: long key IDs are now displayed in the dialogues
+ instead of short IDs.
-* The warning icon in the main window is cleared when the error it
- relates to is clipped from the network log.
+* PGP/* plugin: The automatic signature check is now non-blocking.
-* IMAP errors now reveal the server on which they happen.
+* Python plugin: can now access accounts, mailboxes, folder
+ properties
-* All deprecated GTK interfaces have been replaced with their
- non-deprecated equivalents.
+* vCalendar plugin: webcals:// URLs are now treated as https://
-* csv2addressbook.pl: Added support for FoxMail.
+* Translation updates: Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Dutch, French,
+ German, Hebrew, Slovak, Spanish, and Swedish.
-* Updated translations: British English, Bulgarian, Catalan, Dutch,
- Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian,
- Simplified Chinese, Spanish, and Swedish.
+* Support for Maemo has been removed.
* Bug fixes:
- o bug 1620, 'Can't use hardware zoom buttons' (MAEMO)
- o bug 1398, 'Change current account available even when
- there's only one account'
- o bug 1609, 'Icon issues'
- o bug 1673, 'Tools/Harvest Addresses is greyed out if
- folder is empty'
- o bug 1681, 'GnuPG plugin doesn't compile on Solaris"
- o bug 1684, 'View news messages with large attachments
- segfaults'
- o bug 1688, 'Compilation problems on MingW32'
- o bug 1690, 'Copy/paste in edit window may break Undo'
- o bug 1696, 'Viewing binary attachments as text over
- 1MB' (various buglets)
- o bug 1699, 'Separator line misplaced when printing
- emails with long header lines'
- o bug 1412, 'Sign reply if mail was signed'
- o bug 1707, 'Segfault when sorting on hidden column'
- o bug 1710, 'User misreads Discard Message as Discard
- Changes'. Closing a modified re-edited draft will
- now ask whether to discard changes
- o bug 1712, 'Invalid Phishing attempt warning when linked
- text ends with spaces'
- o bug 1723, 'Buffer overflow crash caused by
- preview in 'Date format help' dialog box'
- o bug 1725, 'useless lines in clawsrc'
- o Fixed compilation with GTK 2.14
- o Fixed some memory leaks
- o Fixed upgrading of themes
- o Fixed po-headers appearing on empty templates
- o Fixed folderview's scrollbar state when starting minimized,
- and popping up is done via command line
- o Fixed race condition when closing the Plugins window while a
- plugin is loading
- o Fixed missing localityName (l) field in LDAP
- o Fixed wild rewrapping when adding text to start of some long
- lines
- o Added "Fwd" to the list of known subject prefixes
- o Fixed nickname edition in non-LDAP address books
- o Fixed compose window size saving, which changed when using
- compose-related filtering actions
- o Fixed English usage
- o Don't go to Inbox after manual mail retrieval if there are no
- new mails
- o Fixed migration problems from Aspell to Enchant dictionaries
- o Fixed double opening of file, leading to multiple signatures
- when using signify
- o Fixed image viewer (wrong image displayed, break of resizing
- functionality
- o Fixed handling of HTML parts in multipart/related parts
- o Workaround to decode correctly mails in Windows-1252 codeset
- advertised as ISO-8859-1
- o Added the nb_NO locale's default charset (ISO-8859-1)
- o IMAP: Fixed crash when error happen on session establishment
- o Fixed a lot of Windows-only bugs (bugs 1041, 1042, 1051,
- problems with folders that have non-ASCII characters, the
- huge memory leak, crash on connection failures)
+ o bug 2132, 'Keyboard accelerators for "Clear" and "Edit"
+ quick search conflict with top menus'
+ o bug 2210, 'Display name with invalid addresses not quoted
+ when inserted from address book'
+ o bug 2794, 'account privacy signing method ignored on reply'
+ o bug 2923, 'build failure with perl 5.18'
+ o bug 2940, 'Extended search dialog too small for content in
+ polish l10n'
+ o bug 2954, 'Crash in "Save Image As" for HTML message'
+ o bug 2957, 'Double-free in account preferences'
+ o bug 2960, 'rfc3156 deviation regarding hash symbols'
+ o bug 2961, 'Partial retrieval not available with PGP/Inline
+ encrypted messages'
+ o bug 2964, 'Lack of escaping of nested double-quotes in To:
+ header'
+ o bug 2979, 'claws fails to load (empty) folderlist.xml and
+ shows account wizard'
+ o bug 2982, 'variable declaration behind FLOCK conditional'
+ o bug 2986, 'Down and Delete buttons have same hotkey in
+ filtering config'
+ o bug 2989, 'Segfault at startup because of corrupted
+ folderlist.xml'
+ o bug 2994, 'translating folder name'
+ o bug 2995, 'closing extended quick search information panel
+ triggers window focus bug'
+ o bug 3002, 'undefined reference to check_file_integrity'
+ o bug 3004, 'claws picks wrong mime type for attachments'
+ o bug 3009, '"Rebuild folder tree" causes SIGSEGV if a
+ directory name isn't valid utf-8'
+ o bug 3011, 'crash when using %f Action on two or more
+ uncached (IMAP) messages.'
+ o bug 3021, 'Icon key_pgp_signed always shows as the default,
+ never the themed version'
+ o debian bug 711864, 'claws-mail-vcalendar-plugin: when
+ creating meeting GTK_IS_COMBO_BOX_TEXT
+ failed'
+ o Quote all specials in name as defined on RFC,
+ see http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5322#section-3.2.3
+ o fix sensitivity and state of 'hide read threads'
+ o Fancy plugin: disable DNS Prefetching when 'Enable loading
+ of remote content' is switched off
+ o Bogofilter plugin: insert X-Bogosity header like the option
+ says, not X-Claws-Bogosity header
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.