-12th June 2006 Sylpheed-Claws 2.3.0
+31st July 2006 Sylpheed-Claws 2.4.0
SYLPHEED-CLAWS RELEASE NOTES
http://www.sylpheed-claws.net
New in this release:
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-* Mailing-list support (Subscribe, Unsubscribe, View Archive, etc)
- has been added in the main window's 'Message/Mailing list' menu
+* A ./configure option has been added, --with-mandir=DIR allowing the
+ setting of the man directory location
-* Filtering and processing rules can be disabled with just one click
+* 'Send queue' has been added to the folder contextual menu, which
+ allows sending the contents of a single queue, as opposed to the
+ toolbar's Send Queue, which sends all queues
-* The From address is editable in the Compose window
+* '/View/Go to/Next unread folder' has been added
-* A menu has been added to the Compose toolbar button to enable
- choosing the account to use
+* 'View/Go to/Next marked messages' now traverses folders
-* Write-only support of .mh_sequences' Unseen property has been added
- for MH mailboxes, allowing synchronised flags when reading your MH
- mailbox with Mutt or other MH-based mail clients
+* sftp:// links are now recognised in mails
-* More feedback is provided to the user when importing MBOX files
+* A dialogue is presented to the user when dropping files into the
+ Compose window, asking whether to insert or attach the file(s). The
+ default behaviour can be controlled via a new option in
+ Compose/Writing
-* 'k' added as a shortcut for 'colorlabel' in the Extended Quick
- Search
+* Allow attached message parts to be selected, opened, or saved via
+ their text label in the message body
-* The option to go to the first Marked message when entering a
- folder has been added.
+* Save named inlined attachments with "Save all"
-* The 'ignore thread' flag is now correctly set on mails threaded by
- subject, in addition to standard headers.
+* An option to change the Folder Type has been added to the Folder
+ Properties
-* Hidden prefs have been added that allow customization of the
- colours used in the Log window (useful for dark GTK+ themes)
+* Add |i{sub_expr} to Templates, which allows inserting user-entered
+ text in a template
-* Optimised large folder reading
+* A new option has been added to '/Preferences/External programs' to
+ allow "Display as text" on attachments to be done via a script
-* Optimised copy/move/deletion/selection
+* An option to 'Never send Return Receipts' has been added to the
+ 'Other' page of the preferences.
-* Optimised 'mark all read' in the current folder
+* The Custom Header dialogue in Account Preferences now has a 'From
+ file...' button, which enables a Face or X-Face header to be set by
+ selecting a file
-* 'test' filtering rules are processed in the background
+* libgnomeprint support : A font for printing can be specified in
+ '/Display/Fonts'
-* A progressbar for cache updates has been added
+* Add Help buttons to some dialogues, clicking on them will open the
+ manual at a suitable section in the configured browser
-* A progressbar for copy/move functions has been added
+* The option 'Add date header' has been removed, a date header is
+ now always added
-* More dialogues have been made HIG compliant
+* The '/Message/Re-edit' menu item has been removed from the separate
+ Message View, where it was useless
-* Allow recursive setting of properties for whole mailboxes
+* Display an Account's Protocol as a label instead of the unusable
+ combo when editing accounts
-* A Face header has been added to the Welcome mail
+* It is now possible to move and copy mails from and to the Drafts
+ and Queue folders
-* The user manual has been updated
+* More non-English Subject prefixes have been added
-* tools/filter_conv_new.pl has been updated for rule
- enabling/disabling
+* The Attachment flag is now set for some inlined attachments
-* updated Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Czech, French, German,
- Greek, Italian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, and Spanish
+* Faster recursive quicksearch (show current folder's results before
+ searching sub-folders)
+
+* Faster send on IMAP
+
+* Alert in case of authentication error on imap
+
+* Better error reporting in GPG plugins
+
+* Faster and better MBOX import/export
+
+* Save caches on SIGPIPE (like on Xorg exit)
+
+* Unified Info/Help/Symbols buttons
+
+* Honor display-header-pane setting in separate window too
+
+* Use the user-defined From: in the Return-Path: header when sending
+
+* Grab Save button by default in Save dialog, which allows saving
+ by hitting Enter
+
+* The online status is checked before resetting mailcheck timer
+
+* Show POP3 connection earlier in statusbar
+
+* Re-read /etc/resolv.conf before connecting to IMAP servers, and
+ when switching to Online mode
+
+* tools/textviewer.pl has been added, which can be used with the new
+ option 'Command for Display as Text' in '/Preferences/External
+ programs'
+
+* The Sylpheed-Claws logo has been updated
+
+* updated Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, French, German, Greek,
+ Italian, Polish, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, and Spanish
translations.
* Bug fixes:
- o bug 965, 'crash opening inbox (cf just previously described
- bug)' (Sylpheed-Claws crashed, checking for new
- messages in local folders)
- o fix 'mark all read' .mh_sequences support
- o fix catching cache read errors and detect corruption better
- o fix possible infinite loop in filtering that was introduced
- in 2.3.0-rc3
- o fix memory leaks
+ o bug 977, 'Can't add or edit imap accounts'
+ o bug 978, 'Disconnect from IMAP server when going offline'
+ o bug 981, 'sc 2.3.1 segfaults with gtk+ 2.10'
+ o Fix double '/Go to/Next ...'
+ o Fix signature replacement when changing accounts and
+ re-editing, in certains cases
+ o Don't report a GPG error when Cancel is clicked on the
+ passphrase dialogue
+ o Block undo while changing signature
+ o Don't freeze the GUI when rescanning local folders after a
+ crash/kill
+ o Fix default button for rules, actions, templates when
+ attempting to close without saving (default was to close)
+ o Fix compilation on some systems
+ o Fix a race condition when, after an SC crash, rescanning
+ folders took more than 0.5 seconds
+ o Don't allow the use of inboxes from F_UNKNOWN folders as
+ default inbox, vCalendar plugin for example
+ o Fixed off-by-one count of current message in the statusbar
+ filtering progressbar
+ o Fix focus of button in Actions I/O dialogue
For further details of the numbered bugs listed above consult
http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/sylpheed-claws/bugzilla/index.cgi