-8th January 2007 Claws Mail 2.7.0
+14th November 2012 Claws Mail 3.9.0
CLAWS MAIL RELEASE NOTES
http://www.claws-mail.org
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
-
-* 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
-
-* 'New Message format' has been added to the Compose/Writing options,
- this works like the Quote format and the same symbols are supported
-
-* 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
+* Added IMAP server side search
-* Allow spell-checking to use both current and alternate dictionaries
+* Added the file .claws-mail/extraheaderrc which holds editable extra
+ headers to be added to compose window combobox
-* Added an hidden option 'addressbook_use_editaddress_dialog' to
- embed the contact editor in the addressbook window in contrast to
- a separate dialog
+* Added 'Select html part of multipart messages' to the Folder
+ Properties
-* 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
+* GnuPG: Consider marginal signature validity as untrusted
-* Allow copying of folders between mailboxes
+* The mimeview shortcuts are now user configurable
-* Better automatic account selection for mailing lists (searches for
- the email address in the Delivered-To header also)
+* Spell checker: Always show 'change dictionary' menu
-* Made the "Synchronise" menu item inactive when there's nothing to
- synchronise
+* Filtering dialogue: TreeView type-ahead is now case insensitive
-* Use Message font in Writing and Quoting preferences, as well as in
- Templates
+* Separated 'Mark all read' from 'Mark as read' and 'Ignore thread'
-* Added more HTML symbols to the html to text converter
+* Made 'Mark all read' confirmation button more clear
-* Save the addressbook's window size on closing
+* Made the clickable area of the expander arrows in the folder list
+ larger
-* Better checks for syntax errors are applied to Templates and Quote
- formats
+* Made SSL client certificate error messages more meaningful
-* Added a check to avoid trying to use a non-existent folder as
- default inbox
+* The type of units required in the Extended Search information
+ dialogue are now indicated
-* Enable setting SSL via STARTTLS from the set-up wizard
+* Several speed-ups and optimisations
-* Added handling of ":port" in server addresses in the set-up wizard
- to specify a port to connect to
+* Updated manual
-* 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
+* Updated translations: Brazilian Portuguese, Finnish, French, German,
+ Hungarian, Spanish, Swedish, traditional Chinese, Ukrainian
* 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).
+ o bug 1137, 'loading plugins with same profile on different
+ archs'
+ o bug 1961, 'patches for a couple of clang warnings'
+ o bug 1975, 'preference mutt key bindings do not take effect'
+ o bug 2096, 'MEMORY-ERROR w/ Claws-Mail/IMAP and Lotus
+ Domino'
+ o bug 2203, 'Problems in forwarding multipart/alternative
+ messages with HTML part'
+ o bug 2390, 'Non-fully-trusted-key-warning appears based on
+ primary UID rather than recipient e-mail'
+ o bug 2579, 'Installed headers redefine autotools-specific
+ constants'
+ o bug 2596, 'Spell checker does not work properly'
+ o bug 2638, 'Respect $LEX environment variable in autogen.sh'
+ o bug 2639, 'The MSGBUFSIZE definition collides with a
+ definition of OpenBSD'
+ o bug 2650, 'segfault in pgp when gpgme_strerror() returns
+ a non utf-8 string'
+ o bug 2689, 'segfault when trying to view info about
+ pgp/smime sign'
+ o bug 2697, 'segfault in parse_parameters()'
+ o bug 2718, 'Failure to check peer hostname when checking
+ certificate'
+ o bug 2723, 'Missing encoding in generated html manual'
+ o bug 2743, 'null pointer crash in procmime strchr'
+ o bug 2744, 'Quick search throws bad command argument error
+ since recent change'
+ o bug 2751, 'g_mutex_new/g_mutex_free removed from GLib 2.32'
+ o bug 2760, 'display correct libc version in crash dialog
+ when uclibc is used'
+ o bug 2761, 'Desktop file does not pass validation'
+ o bug 2776, 'Make all menu shortcuts work properly in the
+ message window'
+ o bug 2777, 'Installing latest cvs116 package 14 Windows
+ version results in wrong paths in clawsrc'
+ o Fix some modal windows
+ o Only show HTML parts by default (if the pref is set so) if
+ the part disposition-type is inline or unknown, but not
+ attachment.
+ o IMAP: Always clear the tags list when fetching a folder, or
+ Claws will never untag an untagged email.
+ o Fix double mainwindow presentation that confuses GNOME3
+ when some plugins fail to load (subsequent Claws windows
+ got no focus in that case)
+ o Fix build on Fink/OS X
+ o Fix build with gnutls 3.1.3
+ o Fix Windows build
+ o Fix Windows runtime crash
+ o Fix socket communication
For further details of the numbered bugs listed above consult
-http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/index.cgi
+http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/
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See ChangeLog for full information regarding changes in this release.
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