-25th September 2006 Sylpheed-Claws 2.5.0
+19th November 2007 Claws Mail 3.1.0
- 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:
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-* 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
-
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'
+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/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.