-16th April 2007 Claws Mail 2.9.0
+19th November 2007 Claws Mail 3.1.0
CLAWS MAIL RELEASE NOTES
http://www.claws-mail.org
New in this release:
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-* Added a Maemo port
- The Maemo port touches several areas: using the correct APIs for
- a good integration, adding of a new layout suited for small
- screens, Maemo-specific default preferences changes, Maemo-specific
- GUI improvements, etc.
-
-* Added more customisable colour labels
-
-* Added 'Mark as spam', 'Mark as ham', and 'Add to address book'
- filtering actions
-
-* Added a new Quote Format symbol, %A, to insert the sender's email
- address
-
-* Changed the option to display unread message counts next to folder
- names: it is now possible to display the total count of messages
- too. Configurable from Display/Summaries
-
-* If Claws Mail is already running on another display, attempting to
- start it will mention that instead of popping up the window on the
- other display
-
-* Added debugging of filtering/processing rules. Configurable from
- Other/Logging options page
-
-* Added handling of the contextual menu key in compose windows and
- MIME parts list
-
-* Added a "pulsing" progressbar in the label window used when
- rebuilding folder tree, etc, in order to show activity
-
-* Improved "Offline mode override" dialogue to avoid asking
- repeatedly, but still ask on explicit user actions
-
-* Improved the creation of POP/Local accounts when no MH mailbox
- exist: create the default one
-
-* Write folderlist directly after adding/deleting accounts that have
- folders
-
-* Added logging IMAP ALERTs as errors in the log
-
-* Added a way for MimeViewer plugins to implement search in a part's
- body
-
-* Updated, added and replaced some icons
-
-* Added display of any LDAP specified Search attributes
-
-* Added 'telephoneNumber' in the default LDAP list of attributes
-
-* Updated the Face header in the welcome message
-
-* Added the option to minimize to tray in the Trayicon plugin
-
-* Added a wrapper to mairix in the tools folder, tools/mailrix.sh
-
-* Added a script which enables inserting files into the message body
- of a new Compose window from the command line,
- tools/claws-mail-compose-insert-files.pl
-
-* Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Czech, French, German,
- Hungarian, Polish,Serbian, Simplified Chinese, and Spanish
- translations
-
-* Bug fixes
- o Fix bug 1111, 'PGP/inline plugin hides text
- around encrypted text block'
- o Fix bug 1134, 'Valgrind macros unhandled
- by Irix's cc'
- o Fix bug 1140, 'wrong return value without libetpan'
- o Fix bug 1143, 'Add number of messages to be
- deleted to confirmation dialog'
- o Fix bug 1145, 'Setting a different name
- for the Mailbox name isn't reflected in
- default account settings'
- o Fix bug 1149, 'crash on logwindow close'
- o Fix bug 1153, 'CM segfaults if IMAP folder is
- selected while scanning prior to update'
- o Fix bug 1157, 'some broken messages confuse
- mime parser'
- o Fix bug 1167, 'Allow not displaying zeros
- in folder list'
- o Fix '+' in mailto URIs for List-* headers
- o Fix decoding of some quoted-printable parts
- o Fix English usage
- o Fix logics issues around the action IO dialog:
- o Fix default inbox weirdnesses
- o Fix unconditional "error happened" when sending via
- command line
- o Fix some race conditions when changing the folder list
- o Fix escaping account names in filtering prefs
- o Fix unsubscription/resubscription after renaming IMAP
- folders
- o Fix wrong action performed when closing the "ask about
- account specific filtering rules when filtering manually"
- dialog by pressing Escape.
- o Fix getting a false error when sending queued message
- whereas the sending was fine (if there are subfolders in
- the queue folder)
- o Fix possible trashing of history and uidl files on disk full
- problems
- o Fix transparent images
- o Fix image sizes in new Message windows
- o IMAP: Fix crash with Citadel
- o Don't scan for new mail on startup if --select is specified
- o Fix possibles crashes when getting text from gtk combos
- o Workaround a bug with GTK+ 2.6.x where
- gtk_combo_box_get_active_text() returns NULL
+Non-blocking NNTP has been implemented. NNTP support is now provided
+ by and depends upon libetpan
+
+GnuTLS support has been implemented as an alternative to OpenSSL.
+ [./configure --enable-gnutls]
+
+A run-time alternative configuration directory switch has been added,
+ [claws-mail --alternate-config-dir DIR]
+
+Tags: Added tag alphabetical sorting and unified the dialogues.
+
+Edit accounts dialogue: The 'default account' (D) column has been
+ removed, instead the default account is indicated by use of
+ bold text.
+
+Templates: Added ability to attach files using |attach{filename}.
+ Templates options are now presented in a tabbed layout.
+
+Address Book: Added duplicate finder, '/Tools/Find duplicates'.
+ It is now possible to set an image for each contact. Pictures
+ from a contact's Face or X-Face will be automatically set
+ when available. The contact's image will be automatically
+ displayed in the message view or header pane if the message
+ has no Face or X-Face header.
+
+'/View/Character encoding' submenus are now grouped together
+
+GTK+ built-in print support is now used if GTK+ >= 2.10 is available.
+ libgnomeprint will never be used if GTK+ >= 2.10 is available.
+
+Reinstated 'Generate Message-ID' option as an Account preference. It
+ is hidden on IMAP accounts, because Message-IDs are needed on
+ servers that don't implement the UIDPLUS extension.
+
+Toolbar preferences: Improved dialogue.
+
+Compose window: the number of attachments is now shown in the tab's
+ title.
+
+Attachments: When opening attachments with 'Open' or 'Open with...'
+ the temporary files are now saved as read-only. A hidden
+ preference has been added, 'save_parts_readwrite', which
+ permits the previous behaviour.
+
+IMAP: Added a button on the Folder Properties General page to allow
+ users to discard local caches.
+ Added much better error handling.
+ Fetching of cached mails has been heavily optimised.
+
+LDAP: Added read-only support for jpegPhoto LDAP field
+
+Bcc in commandline URIs has been added.
+
+Dillo browser plugin: Address book based whitelisting for loading
+ remote images has been added.
+
+SpamAssassin plugin: Address book based whitelisting has been added.
+
+MAEMO: Maemo 4.0 (Chinook) build enabled.
+
+MAEMO: Removed some useless tooltips.
+
+tools/csv2addressbook.pl
+ a new script that imports a CSV formatted address book. Becky
+ and Thunderbird address book are currently supported.
+
+Updated translations: Brazilian Portuguese, Finnish, French, German,
+ Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Simplified Chinese, and Slovak
+
+
+* Bug fixes:
+ o bug 1340, 'Case insensitive searches with non-ascii
+ alphabets fail'.
+ o bug 1343, 'Filtering..'s close button silently discards new
+ filter'
+ o bug 1347, '-Wno-unused-function, optional'
+ o bug 1349, (MAEMO) 'Emails still skip to end when opened (in
+ certain circumstances)...'
+ o bug 1375, 'Impossible to modify e-mail in LDAP addressbook
+ twice'
+ o bug 1376, 'crash on addressbook manipulation'
+ o bug 1377, 'unspecific errors on signature checking'
+ * bug 1387, 'Request for --compose to support multiple
+ attachments'
+ o bug 1389, 'Changing 'Display headers in message view'
+ breaks dispheaderrc'
+ * bug 1390, 'NNTP fails after server closed connection'
+ o debian bug 448814, 'mailto: URI decoding doesn't decode the
+ destination address field'
+ o debian bug 450698, 'nntp auth behavior changed without
+ notice'
+ o IMAP: Fix message deletion (EXPUNGE)
+ o IMAP: Better IMAP-UTF7/UTF8 conversion
+ o gtkut_stock_with_text_button_set_create(): set
+ GTK_CAN_DEFAULT on buttons 2 and 3.
+ o Fixed gtk critical warning in addressbook selector.
+ o Don't set new flag back when doing "Mark as unread" from
+ filtering.
+ o Fixed resetting the quicksearch when in non-sticky mode,
+ but Recursive is set: reset only when going out of the root
+ search folder.
+ o Prevent empty Tag after edit.
+ o GPG plugins: Fixed a bug which prevented the encryption key
+ auto-selection when two or more matched the email address
+ but only one isn't revoked or expired.
+ o MAEMO: fix failure of loading images inline
+ o MAEMO: Put the whole Templates dialogue in a scrolled
+ window so that it is accessible.
For further details of the numbered bugs listed above consult
http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/index.cgi