-17th December 2007 Claws Mail 3.2.0
+27th June 2012 Claws Mail 3.8.1
CLAWS MAIL RELEASE NOTES
http://www.claws-mail.org
New in this release:
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-* Several GUI improvements
- The colour preferences have been split into tabs.
- Improve the way 'Find in current message' search results are
- shown by vertically centering the selected text in the
- Message View.
- Improvements to the 'List URIs' dialogue.
- Filtering/Processing Match Type dialogue has been reworked.
- Several other layout improvements.
+* Replied and Forwarded message status flags are now non-exclusive.
+ Introduced a new message state (and relevant icon in message list)
+ where both the Replied and Forwarded flags are set
-* Several address book improvements
- Added Custom Attributes, which can be edited from
- '/Tools/Edit custom attributes...' and are used from the
- 'Name' drop down list on the 'Edit Person Details' dialogue.
- Always add a new contact if any value is set, instead of
- silently rejecting it when an email address is not set.
- Better guessing of contact name from incomplete name
- information.
- Better display of contacts that have no name set, in contact
- lists, group contents, find duplicate results.
- Error messages don't show in the status bar anymore, alert
- panels are used instead.
- Several other GUI improvements.
+* 'Send to...' has been added to the context menu of a message's
+ parts. This causes a new Compose window to open with the selected
+ mime part attached.
-* Added optional Tooltips to the Message List. This is enabled by the
- 'Show tooltips' option on the '/Display/Summaries' Preferences page
- and is only possible with GTK+ >= 2.12
+* 'Hide' and 'View Log' buttons have been added to the Send and
+ Receive dialogues. The former will hide the dialogue, the latter
+ will open the Network Log dialogue.
-* Much improved handling of Return Receipts, both outgoing and
- incoming.
+* A short symbol has been added the QuickSearch Extended mode: 'ha',
+ an abbreviated form of 'has_attachment'.
-* Added the option to use the system defaults for External Programs
- preferences on the '/Message View/External Programs' page.
+* Basic session statistics are now available, from the Statistics
+ tab in About dialog and the command-line.
-* Added "select first email in list" to the list of possible
- selections in the 'Set default selection on entering a folder'
- options on the '/Display/Summaries' preferences page.
+* The display of attached patches, (text/x-patch or text/x-diff), is
+ now colourised. The colours are controlled by 3 new hidden
+ preferences: diff_added_color, diff_deleted_color, and
+ diff_hunk_color.
-* IMAP: Added IMAP tags support. (Note: 'Bandwidth-efficient' mode
- prevents fetching of tags.)
-
-* IMAP: Optimised flag handling and message copying.
-
-* Improved printed page layout for built-in GTK+ printing
- Bold fonts are now used where appropriate and a demarcation
- between header and body has been added.
-
-* Optimised filtering on flags/tags changes.
-
-* MAEMO: Added LED flashing for new mail alerts
-
-* MAEMO: Made all of the left of column in the Folder List a hotspot
- for expanding/collapsing the tree.
-
-* Updated translations: Brazilian Portuguese, French, German,
- Hungarian, Italian, and Spanish
+* Updated translations: Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, German, French, Hungarian,
+ Indonesian, Lithuanian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish,
+ Traditional Chinese.
* Bug fixes:
- o bug 1378, 'Claws exits on IMAP alert message'
- o bug 1392, 'Top level domain .EU is not recognised as valid'
- o bug 1395, 'Crash on checking for new mails while filter is
- running'
- o bug 1396, 'Crash on disabling a filter while it is
- processing'
- o bug 1400, 'Drag and drop of URLs does not work'
- o bug 1402, 'Photo lost when moving address book cards'
- o bug 1405, 'imap auto auth method doesn't work since 3.1.0'
- o bug 1407, 'After a copy action, further rules apply to both
- original and copy'
- o bug 1410, 'CM crashed while closing :-('
- o bug 1417, 'Network log doesn't reveal enough NNTP errors'
- o bug 1419, 'Seg fault when trying to choose key bindings'
- o debian bug 453157, 'Fails to post usenet articles after
- NNTP connection has been interrupted'
- o debian bug 454089, 'CVE-2007-6208 insecure tmp file
- handling in sylprint.pl prone to
- symlink attack' (Removed sylprint.pl)
- o user themes dir was not set properly and some themes might
- have disappeared from themes list in prefs.
- o NNTP: Fix UTF-8 being sent when encoding is 8bit
- o vCard: Fix QP decoding (and UTF8)
- o IMAP: Fix M-UTF7 in subscription dialog.
- o Fix potential buffer overrun
+ o bug 1090, 'Standard-folders appear again after rescanning tree'
+ o bug 1924, 'Messages marked move to Trash appear identical to
+ messages marked move to $FOLDER'
+ o bug 2598, 'Actions can move locked messages'
+ o bug 2501, 'opened message blanks when moved to other folder'
+ o bug 2574, 'Statement might be overflowing a buffer in strncat'
+ o bug 2577, 'Focus rectangle on folder list and message
+ list headings doesn't get properly cleared when switching
+ heading and horizontally scrolling list (underlines and
+ vertical lines remain on screen)'
+ o bug 2582, 'Expanded mimeview drag n drop no longer works'
+ o bug 2595, 'Change expand behavior for message list / message view'
+ o bug 2620, 'shift+tab from subject field not working'
+ o bug 2624, 'dialog "Action Configuration" cannot be closed'
+ o bug 2646, 'Compile fails with gnutls-3.0.18'
+ o bug 2659, 'E-mail attachments are handled inconsistently'
+ o bug 2662, '"ag" quicksearch adds "1" to value'
+ o Fix bug in search criteria when doing a complete directory
+ search using '*'
+ o Fix GTK+2.16 build (w32)
+ o Fix sensitivity of toolbar's get_btn (retrieve mail from current
+ account) and of mainwindows's relevant entry when current account
+ is not able to retrieve (SMTP-only).
+ o don't do TLS if not requested by user. fixes connecting to servers
+ which, for example, want SSL 3 only
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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