-8th January 2007 Claws Mail 2.7.0
+15th August 2018 Claws Mail 3.17.0
CLAWS MAIL RELEASE NOTES
http://www.claws-mail.org
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Claws Mail is a GTK+ based, user-friendly, lightweight, and fast
email client.
-Claws Mail was previously known as Sylpheed-Claws.
-
New in this release:
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-* The --select option can now also select emails by Message-ID
+* the minimum GLib requirement is now 2.28.
+
+* the mimimum GTK+2 requirement is now 2.24.
+
+* nettle is now required, following removal of libcrypt from glibc.
-* Attaching files from 'mailto:' URIs (&attach=...) is now possible.
- A dialog is displayed to make sure that the user is aware that the
- mail will contain attachments
+* explicit use of --disable-gnutls is now required if gnuTLS support
+ is not required.
-* 'New Message format' has been added to the Compose/Writing options,
- this works like the Quote format and the same symbols are supported
+* SOCKS proxy support has been added.
+ Global settings can be found on the Mail Handling/Proxy page.
+ This can be overridden by Account settings on the new Proxy page.
-* Reworked the About dialog, including the addition of a new page,
- 'Features', which indicates which of the optional features are
- compiled in and which are not. A 'Release Notes' page was also
- added
-
-* Added history combo for all search fields (message and text)
-
-* The 'mark_as_read_delay' option is not hidden anymore and can be
- found in Configuration/Preferences/Summaries
-
-* Added global and per-folder preferences to set the default
- alternate dictionary
-
-* Allow spell-checking to use both current and alternate dictionaries
-
-* Added an hidden option 'addressbook_use_editaddress_dialog' to
- embed the contact editor in the addressbook window in contrast to
- a separate dialog
-
-* Added a hidden option 'unsafe_ssl_certs', to allow storing
- multiple SSL certificates for a given server/port. You will be
- asked to accept unknown certificates. Unchecking this option will
- require you to re-accept previously known certificates
-
-* Allow copying of folders between mailboxes
-
-* Better automatic account selection for mailing lists (searches for
- the email address in the Delivered-To header also)
-
-* Made the "Synchronise" menu item inactive when there's nothing to
- synchronise
-
-* Use Message font in Writing and Quoting preferences, as well as in
- Templates
-
-* Added more HTML symbols to the html to text converter
-
-* Save the addressbook's window size on closing
-
-* Better checks for syntax errors are applied to Templates and Quote
- formats
-
-* Added a check to avoid trying to use a non-existent folder as
- default inbox
-
-* Enable setting SSL via STARTTLS from the set-up wizard
-
-* Added handling of ":port" in server addresses in the set-up wizard
- to specify a port to connect to
-
-* Bogofilter plugin: added an option to print the X-Claws-Bogosity
- header in emails handled by the Bogofilter plugin (in MH folders
- only)
-
-* Bogofilter plugin: added an option to whitelist senders found in
- addressbook
-
-* Bogofilter plugin: Allow storing of Unsure mails in a specific
- folder to make better teaching easier
-
-* Bogofilter plugin: Improved GUI interaction while Bogofilter is
- filtering
-
-* TrayIcon plugin: added an "Email from account/..." submenu
-
-* updated Brazilian Portuguese, British English, Catalan, Finnish,
- French, Italian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, and Spanish
- translations
-
-* Bug fixes:
- o bug 934, 'sylpheed claws 2.1 doesn't show Exchanges Public
- Folders'
- o bug 1052, 'templates %d and %D{fmt} broken but %af works
- fine'
- o bug 1055, 'Add the 'cancel receive' in the available events
- for the toolbar buttons'
- o bug 1059, 'Better jpilot charset handling'
- o bug 1064, 'crash @ etpan_certificate_check() when opening
- an IMAP folder'
- o bug 1067, 'Claws-Mail uses 100% CPU on an IMAP folder and is
- blocked on main thread'
- o bug 1072, 'Claws stops fetching newsgroups from server when
- newsgroup got deleted'
- o bug 1076, 'privacy options are displayed even when pgp
- plugin not loaded / available'
- o bug 1077, 'sylpheed-claws does not start when IMAP server
- is unavailable'
- o bug 1080, 'Using SSL option in wizard for incoming server
- does not activate SSL with STARTTLS'
- o bug 1081, 'claws-mail segfaults when going offline while it
- transfers mails via imap'
- o bug 1082, 'incorrect / imprecise error message when imap
- server provides ssl only through STARTTLS but
- SSL is selected'
- o bug 1085, 'Apply to subfolder doesn't work'
- o bug 1088, 'ctrl-h produces repeatable crash'.
- o bug 1089, 'NUL characters in Subject line are
- misinterpreted'
- o fixed encoding of headers in the welcome message
- o fixed some sensitivity issues in preferences
- o fixed crash when using Hide read messages with Mark as read
- delay
- o fixed parsing of mailcap files with tabs
- o fixed address comparison when replying to all (it was
- possible to reply to ourselves if the case was
- different)
- o fixed folder's cache update after running an Action
- o fixed hiding of Quicksearch with Esc
- o fixed printing of selection, message part, and images
- o fixed page count in printing
- o IMAP: Fix failure to get separator on LIST "" ""
- o change manual's target dir to be LFH-compliant
- o some compilation warning fixes
- o don't warn about empty subject when redirecting emails
- o fix scrolling of log window
- o partial download: Fix Mark for download/deletion when
- the relevant header is not the first one
- o fixed slowness when appending on IMAP
- o fixed wrong state of test regexp in folder preferences
- o made desktop and icon files not dependant on GNOME 2
- o fixed a little memory leak in the addressbook
- o don't display errors when synchronising IMAP mailboxes that
- have non selectable folders
- o When possible, move messages from Queue to Sent instead of
- copying and deleting
- o don't use any MimeViewer plugin when showing all headers
- o tools/maildir2claws-mail.pl: Only substitute 'sent-mail'
- if it's the full directory name
- o disable Control-Space (handle it as Space).
-
-For further details of the numbered bugs listed above consult
-http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/index.cgi
+* Accounts can now have their own auto-check intervals, or follow the
+ global interval.
+
+* in the options for 'default selection when entering a folder',
+ 'first [...]' has been renamed to 'oldest [...]', and
+ 'newest [...]' items have been added.
+
+* Message List: when changing sort key by clicking column header,
+ the sort direction is now preserved
+
+* Message View: keypress handling for scrolling, (PgUp/Down, Space,
+ Backspace), has been improved.
+
+* the Network Log now displays output from LDAP operations.
+
+* "Go to last error" has been added to the Log Window context menu.
+
+* Filtering/Processing: "mark_as_spam" is no longer a final action,
+ since it does not move the marked message.
+
+* Filtering/Processing: Resent-From and Resent-To have been added in
+ Any/All header(s) (in Address Book) matcher rules.
+
+* when a Return-Receipt request is received by an unknown address,
+ the user is now required to choose which Account to send it from.
+
+* Colour Labels: confirmation is asked for when clearing or
+ overriding existing colour labels.
+
+* Address Book: basic contact merging has been added.
+
+* NetworkManager support: ported from libnm-util/libnm-glib to libnm.
+
+* Dillo plugin: this HTML rendering plugin is now once again
+ available.
+
+* RSSyl plugin: the modified time is no longer considered when
+ matching deleted items.
+
+* RSSyl plugin: Handle 404 and other fetch failures better.
+
+* Attachment Remover plugin: the user is now notified about what has
+ been done when processing multiple selections.
+
+* SpamAssassin plugin: added support for compression (the server must
+ have compression enabled, and the local spamc too).
+
+* SpamAssassin plugin: disabled SSLv3.
+
+* when using the hidden preference, hide_timezone, the time in the
+ Date header is converted to UTC.
+
+* various other UI improvements.
+
+* many behind-the-scenes improvements.
+
+* updated translations: Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Czech, Danish,
+ Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Norwegian Bokmål,
+ Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional
+ Chinese, Turkish.
+
+* bug fixes:
+ o bug 3754, 'interactive auth dialogs pops endlessly'
+ o bug 3919, 'manual filtering does not move spam'
+ o bug 3936, 'LDAP StartTLS does not work for addressbooks'
+ o bug 3947, 'Build break with --disable-libsm
+ --enable-crash-dialog'
+ o bug 3957, 'Claws-Mail 64bit crashes when saving a draft'
+ o bug 3960, 'Sends unencrypted emails when encryption fails'
+ o bug 3971, 'Deleted rss feed item reappears as unread on
+ feed refreshing'
+ o bug 3973, ''select all' in summaryview does not
+ automatically focus the summaryview'
+ o bug 3978, '"From" column displays both name and email
+ address for Outbox'
+ o bug 3984, 'Copy-paste in find/filter field works
+ incorrectly'
+ o bug 3985, 'an empty progress bar remains after POP mail
+ check completes'
+ o bug 3986, 'IMAP quick search using non-ASCII characters
+ creates an infinite loop'
+ o bug 3993, 'Claws Mail connects to IMAP server when it
+ should not'
+ o bug 4014, '"Work offline" doesn't seem to affect RSS'
+ o bug 4022, 'Closing "Account Preferences" window opens "Edit
+ Accounts" window if "Edit Accounts" window has
+ been opened before at least once'
+ o bug 4023, 'Fix some small issues'
+ o bug 4033, 'Claws Mail crashes [malloc(): memory corruption]
+ while trying to save account password greater
+ than 136 chars'
+ o bug 4056, 'Impossible to disable overriding of offline
+ mode'
+ o bug 4058, '# in extended search description window should
+ not be translated'
+ o bug 4068, 'Claws Mail hangs when getting news from a
+ certain feed'
+ o actionsrc was not updated after mailbox name change
+ o two crashes caused by bad GtkListStore management in
+ editaddress.c
+ o wrong malloc of clamd_socket struct, (CID 1220477)
+ o vCalendar: possible access to uninitilized folder pointer
+ (CID 1402515)
+ o vCalendar: mismatch and unneeded display of unavailable
+ folder class in warning (CID 1434197)
+ o vCalendar: Skip whitespace chars at the beginning of ics
+ stream
+ o buffer overrun, always writing at buffer size + 1. (CID
+ 1434188)
+ o wrong use of pointer-to-array as an array CID 1434191)
+ o sensitivity of few preferences widgets of the SA plug-in
+ o compilation using --enable-generic-umpc
+ o crash in quicksearch keypress handling
+ o quoting in reply to format=flowed message
+ o HTML <hX> header handling
+ o 'sort_type' is lost when changing 'sort_key' from
+ /View/sort the bug was apparent with a descending sort
+ o Return-Receipts: MDN mail-accountname leak
+ o auth retry in Managesieve - wrong state variable was being
+ set
+ o memory leaks
+
+For further details of the numbered bugs and RFEs listed above
+see https://www.claws-mail.org/bug/[BUG NUMBER]
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