-25th September 2006 Sylpheed-Claws 2.5.0
+8th February 2008 Claws Mail 3.3.0
- SYLPHEED-CLAWS RELEASE NOTES
- http://www.sylpheed-claws.net
+ CLAWS MAIL RELEASE NOTES
+ http://www.claws-mail.org
-Sylpheed-Claws is a GTK+ based, user-friendly, lightweight, and fast
+Claws Mail is a GTK+ based, user-friendly, lightweight, and fast
email client.
Notes for this release:
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-* Minimum required versions of GTK+ and GLIB is now 2.6.0
-
-* Minimum required version of libetpan (for IMAP support) is now 0.46
-
-* metamail support has been dropped, this is now handled internally
+* Due to licensing problems, the ClamAV plugin has been removed from
+ the Claws Mail core distribution and can now been found packaged
+ separately or with the 'extra plugins' package.
New in this release:
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-* New plugin: Bogofilter, providing Spam filtering and learning
-
-* Account-based filtering rules. Each filtering rule can now be
- assigned to a specific account, by default it's "All".
-
-* Filtering against Address Book. It is now possible add matched
- conditions to determine if any email address in a message matches
- or doesn't match any or all books or folders in the Address Book.
-
-* Quote folding. Quotes in the message view can now be folded, via
- the "/View/Quotes/..." menu. The folding can also be toggled by
- double clicking on the quotes in the Message View
-
-* Re-enabled user-defined Headers in Displayed Headers configuration
-
-* "/View/Go to/Parent message" and "/View/Go to/Last read message"
- have been added
-
-* Made the list views look more modern by add alternating coloured
- lines, replacing the box-type expanders with arrows, removing the
- dotted lines.
- Hidden prefs have been added to enable users to maintain the old
- style:
- 'enable_dotted_lines' for the dotted lines and box-type expanders.
- 'use stripes_in_summary' to enable alternating coloured lines in
- the Message and Folder lists.
- 'use stripes_everywhere' to also enable alternating coloured lines
- in all other lists.
- Note: 'use_stripes_everywhere' replaces the previous hidden option
- 'enable_rules_hint'.
-
-* New hidden pref, 'stripes_color_offset', to change the value added/
- subtracted to normal bgcolor to create the stripes in the summaries
-
-* The Send button on the main toolbar is now inactive when the Queue
- folders are empty
-
-* IMAP: Added a View Log button on auth error
-
-* PGP/Core plugin: it is now possible to create a new key pair from
- within Sylpheed-Claws
-
-* PGP/Core plugin: When encrypting, if only one key matches, and it
- matches exactly, it is automatically used
-
-* TrayIcon plugin: the icon now has transparency
-
-* Enabled text selection for replying from MimeViewer plugins
-
-* The attachments list in the MimeView column can now be scrolled
- using the mousewheel
-
-* In the MimeView column a middle-click will now just open the Mime
- part without showing it in the Message View, likewise, a right-
- click will display the context menu without displaying the part
-
-* The "When entering a folder..." selection option is now used for
- '/View/Go to/Next unread folder'
-
-* A special Return-Receipt message is shown if the message is from
- the user
-
-* An icon has been added to the statusbar to notify of errors
-
-* Added missing icons to the Icon Legend dialog
-
-* Enabled closing of SSL certificates and Folder Sort dialogs with Esc
- key
-
-* Displaying of huge mails can now be cancelled, so the GUI doesn't
- block
-
-* Sylpheed-Claws' internal queue headers are now hidden when showing
- all headers. They'll be present only in Source window.
-
-* Several GUI improvements.
-
-* Faster loading of folders and other optimisations and speed-ups
-
-* Logging has been improved.
-
-* improved sizing of some widgets
-
-* Made the desktop file XDG compliant
-
-* The manuals have been updated
-
-* A Spanish translation of the manual has been added
-
-* Added an action tool, tools/uuooffice, to open uuencoded *.doc files
- with OpenOffice.
-
-* Added an action tool, tools/fix_date.sh, to fix a missing Date field
- in emails.
-
-* updated Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, German,
- Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak and Spanish translations.
-
-* Bug fixes:
- o bug 456 'current message is hidden when the view is
- refreshed and extended search is "unread
- messages"'
- o bug 956 'DnD text with accents in compose text entry'
- o bug 973 'Unicode punctation characters are not recognized'
- o bug 979 'Plugin crashes when exiting sylpheed-claws'
- o bug 988 'Very specific filesystem issue on temp files'
- o bug 995 '"Mark cross-posted as read" doesn't work'
- o bug 998 'last attachment is not accessible'
- o bug 999 'Timing out on TSL cert validation dialog makes
- ugly things happen'
- o bug 1007 'Wrong folder highlighted'
- o bug 1011 'wrong (negative) count on unread messages'
- o bug 1012 'crashed upon sending mail from compose window'
- o bug 1013 'expand selected thread tree'
- o problem with Actions of the format "> stuff >"
- o strict ISO C90 compliance
- o crash setting the priority on re-edit
- o default font size setting after wizard run
- o missing last line in some mail cases (Fixes debian bug
- #381872)
- o Send button sensitivity at startup
- o encrypt bug on IMAP
- o occasional IMAP bug where large msgs were left in the queue
- folder after sending
- o encrypted mail marked as new when saved in normal folders
- o switching to offline, asking if it should be overriden for
- synchronising
- o body quicksearch in non-encoded bodies containing '='
- o replied flag not being set after drafting
- o data loss when copy fails during a move
- o automatic sizing of some dialogs
- o compilation on FreeBSD
- o fix free-after-use in some cases
- (when procmime_encode_content() frees mimeinfo->data.mem
- and turns it to a temp file)
- o fix "real-time" sorting in folder list by freezing/thawing
- o fix can't click forward/backward buttons in the summary
- search
- o miscellaneous printing issues:
- - Bad font for linkified headers
- - Different font if the mail was displayed or not
- o select the mimepart icon when displaying as text
- o fix blocking check of an SSL certificate
- o update folder name label on folder rename
- o workaround possible GTK crash: remove selection clipboard
- before destroying widget, or GTK+-2.10
- o workaround GTK+ Bug 351600 - 'Can't re-click on button after
- sensitivity update'
+* Added NetworkManager support
+ This is built by default if the dependencies are satisfied; it can
+ be specifically disabled with '--disable-networkmanager-support'.
+ This enables Claws Mail to track changes to the network status.
+
+* Added DIGEST-MD5 support for IMAP authentication
+
+* Added Folder Properties option, 'Run processing rules when opening'
+ to the General page.
+
+* Added sub-sorting to the Message List; when the Sort type is either
+ Subject, From, To or Tags, sub-sorting by Date will be active.
+
+* Added from=address to the mailto sequence
+ The 'from' will try to select the first matching account in the
+ Accounts list, otherwise it will use the usual account selection
+ mechanism but will override it with the given 'from' address.
+
+* Added insert=FILE to the mailto sequence (stands for 'insert file')
+ This adds the ability to create a new message from the command-line,
+ with the body set from the contents of an existing file.
+
+* Added mailto with NNTP accounts
+ This comes into play if mailto is used when an NNTP account is the
+ default account or if an NNTP account address is used with 'from'.
+
+* Added several GUI improvements to the Filtering, Processing, Tags,
+ Actions, Templates, Logging and Address Book dialogues
+
+* Added a tooltip to the 'replied' icon in the Message List which
+ indicates 'click to see your reply' feature.
+
+* Added 'claws-mail --version-full' to display the version and a list
+ of the compiled-in features
+
+* Implemented speed-ups to list operations, deletions and cache
+ updates.
+
+* Updated the man page
+
+* The Trayicon plugin icons are now themable.
+
+* text/calendar message parts are now automatically displayed if a
+ plugin handling text/calendar is loaded, e.g. vCalendar.
+
+* Maemo: connect HW status change signal for shutdown
+
+* Maemo: identify mmc1 and mmc2 more clearly in the GUI
+
+* Maemo: Make dnd threshold higher
+
+* New translations: Hebrew
+
+* Updated translations: Brazilian Portuguese, British English, Czech,
+ Finnish, German, Hungarian, Italian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
+
+* Bug fixes:
+ o bug 1348, 'Hang ups at exit time with pgp plugin since
+ 3.0.2'
+ o bug 1353, 'on startup with small screen layout, keyboard
+ input gets lost'
+ o bug 1435, 'Reply doesn't take into account reply-to field'
+ o bug 1436, 'Filter condition dialog doesn't load header
+ name from current rules'
+ o bug 1439, 'Claws Mail does not remember window size state
+ when restarted'
+ o bug 1442, 'Tags are repeated in encapsulated messages'
+ o bug 1443, and strip possible whitespaces around custom
+ header names
+ o bug 1445, 'Display sender using addressbook: fails when
+ From: isn't an email address'
+ o bug 1452, 'crash while drag'n'droping emails to an IMAP
+ folder'
+ o bug 1454, 'error message shows parts and signature of
+ previous messages'
+ o bug 1455, 'Password enters leading letter incorrectly as
+ uppercase' (maemo)
+ o bug 1446, 'SC crashes frequently when staying in
+ background'
+ o bug 1465, 'First line in new message does not mark URLs'
+ o bug 1461, 'several components #define _XOPEN_SOURCE
+ improperly'
+ o bug 1468, 'Use IMAP keyword to store "forwarded" flag'
+ o bug 1469, 'Column width adjustments on message lists do not
+ save'
+ o bug 1472, 'Keyboard "Menu" key doesn't call spell check of
+ actuall word'
+ o bug 1477,
+ 'Claws Mail crashes when view PGP-encrypted message'
+ o bug 1478, 'Wrong pthread_create calls all over the place'
+ o bug 1480, 'should be able to display mail file from command
+ line'
+ o bug 1485, 'selecting a folder's default account if name
+ contains '&''
+ o bug 1486, 'Re: Incorrect content when replying'
+ o bug 1493, count lines (\n chars) according to the way
+ format body is passed (i.e. \-escaped or not).
+ o bug 1502, 'Plus signs are stripped from email addresses
+ when calling from command line'
+ o Fix the line-breaking, wrapping bug
+ o Fix building of URIs from filenames
+ o Fix scrolling in addressbook duplicate finder result dialog
+ o Fix privacy menu update when replying to encrypted mail and
+ no default privacy system is set
+ o Fix scrolling to bottom when dragging and dropping
+ o Fix path to mime/globs
+ o Fix FreeBSD build with IPV6 support
+ o Fix build on old GCC
+ o Maemo: Fix extra leading hyphen visible in the display
+ header configuration combo list.
+ o Maemo: Fix hardware space key
+ o Maemo: Fix LED handling on OS 2008
For further details of the numbered bugs listed above consult
-http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/sylpheed-claws/bugzilla/index.cgi
-
-* and other code reorganisation, cleanups, and more.
+http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/index.cgi
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-See ChangeLog and README for full information regarding changes in
-this release.
-
+See ChangeLog for full information regarding changes in this release.