-3rd September 2007 Claws Mail 3.0.0
+27th June 2012 Claws Mail 3.8.1
CLAWS MAIL RELEASE NOTES
http://www.claws-mail.org
Claws Mail is a GTK+ based, user-friendly, lightweight, and fast
email client.
-Notes for this release:
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-
-* Claws Mail is now licensed under GPLv3 or later.
-
-
New in this release:
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-* added Tags feature
- Tags are arbitrary labels that can be applied to messages. It is
- possible to create, edit, remove Tags; apply them to mails;
- filter on Tags or Tag presence; apply or unset Tags via Filtering
- actions; reference Tags in reply Templates.
-
-* Threads can now be sorted by most recent message
- /View/Sort/By thread date
-
-* Added "/View/Show or Hide/Column headers"
-
-* Added 'watch thread' feature
-
-* Enabled the running of folder Processing rules on demand
-
-* Added options to stop/enable writing logs to disc, see Logging
- page of preferences
-
-* IMAP and News: Implement age-based caching: allow the specifying
- of a threshold for the offline synchronisation feature, and whether
- old cached bodies should be removed. Accessible from the Folder
- Properties.
-
-* IMAP: Made multiple copy, (in the same IMAP account), faster by
- matching source/destination message UIDs.
-
-* LDAP: Ability to edit all Person attributes
-
-* Nicer layout of the message part icons
-
-* Speed up and clean up rendering of larger msgs
-
-* Use progress bar when sending messages
-
-* Made mainwindow's /Help/Manual point to the remote copy if the
- local copy doesn't exist
-
-* Replaced some deprecated widgets
-
-* Enabled changing the emphasis color used to highlight the
- newsreader/x-mailer header value when it matches our preferred
- mail agent, (hidden pref 'emphasis_color' added to clawsrc).
-
-* tools/mew2claws-mail.pl
- Added new script that imports a Mew address book
-
-* tools/popfile-link.sh
- Added a new script that will open selected messages in
- POPFile control center, in order to change the message
- status.
-
-* Updated the manual
-
-* Check that Dillo's installed when loading the Dillo Browser
- plugin
-
-* Maemo improvements:
- o Automatically choose the correct application
- to open parts
- o Better way to notify of new mails
- o Destroy messageview after trashing mail
- o Simplified layout
- o Better toolbars, removal of CTree headers
- o Add a specific icon to go back to folder list
- o Improvements to the Wizard, About and icon legend dialogues
- o add an easy way to store data (mails and IMAP/NNTP caches)
- on one of the SD cards, and protect against unmounts if
- needed
- o plug the online/offline system into maemo's interfaces to
- have Claws automatically switch according to the system
- status (on IT OS 2007)
- o use HildonBanners to display status messages
- o force layout to be Small screen
- o put the progress bar in the toolbar
-
-* Updated Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Finnish, French,
- German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese and
- Slovak translations.
-
-
-* Bugfixes:
- o bug 1224, 'The process of Replying to emails with large
- attachments seems unreasonably long...'
- o bug 1246, 'compose becomes increasingly slow replying to
- complex emails'
- o bug 1261, '[DE] coloring messages in overview keys are
- not localised'
- o bug 1267, 'printing mutliple messages opens one message-
- dialog after the other'
- o bug 1275, 'auto-saved draft messages not always being
- removed'
- o bug 1284, 'The html -> text converter ignores entities'
- o bug 1286, 'Can't move a folder into a "Folders Only"
- folder'
- o bug 1287, 'Compile time problem on Solaris (nexenta
- gnu/Solaris) utils.c'
- o bug 1292, 'CM crashes on writing mail'
- o bug 1290, 'Claws Mail crashes if too little memory when
- rebuilding folder tree'
- o bug 1293, 'LDAP address book not working'
- o fix processing progressbar
- o fix re-opening of all composing messages that were opened
- when closing the previous instance
- o fix toolbar prefs crash when no actions exist
- o fix typos around long form expressions in the quote lexer.
- o Quicksearch: Make search run on GDK_KP_Enter too
- o fix missing timestamp update on MH source folder when
- moving mails
- o fix 'o' (Open) shortcut on MIME parts
- o fix two vCard-related crashes
- o fix threads use on BSDs
- o copy all account preferences in account_clone() - some
- were missing.
- o fix 'List URLS'
- o Fix format string vulnerability
- o Fix all potential misuses of format-string functions
- o Address Book: Contacts are now locale-aware sorted in the
- address book
- o use suitable defaults for outbox,
- queue, drafts and trash folders
- o fix loss of subfolders properties when renaming a folder
- o fix Quicksearch's Sticky mode
- o fix signature replacement when it's been wrapped
- o fix cursor offset when quote contains UTF-8 chars
- o fix coloring of pastes as quotation
- o fix wizard crash when Mailbox dir already exists
- o IMAP: fix timeout setting (requires libetpan 0.52)
- o IMAP: better scanning (NOOP instead of CLOSE/SELECT)
- o IMAP: fix unwanted creation of libetpan's stream dump file
- o LDAP: fix possible crash on cache invalidation
- o LDAP: fix port being reset to 636 on SSL
- o LDAP: fix wrong "Connected successfully to server".
- o Maemo: layout fixes
- o Maemo: fix auto-completion
- o Maemo: fix sticking statusbars
- o Maemo: fix the strange "top_application" info at startup.
- o Maemo: fix crash on first launch
- o Maemo: don't opened selected folder when clicking on white
- space
- o Maemo: make Esc close messageviews
- o Maemo: fix message scrolling to the end on opening
- o Maemo: fix reopening same message
- o Maemo: fix opening of mails from keypad in Sent folders
- o Maemo: fix adjustments changes
- o Refresh window when processing
- o Windows: never pass NULL pointers for %s substitutions
+* 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
+
+* '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.
+
+* '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.
+
+* A short symbol has been added the QuickSearch Extended mode: 'ha',
+ an abbreviated form of 'has_attachment'.
+
+* Basic session statistics are now available, from the Statistics
+ tab in About dialog and the command-line.
+
+* 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.
+
+* Updated translations: Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, German, French, Hungarian,
+ Indonesian, Lithuanian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish,
+ Traditional Chinese.
+
+* Bug fixes:
+ 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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See ChangeLog for full information regarding changes in this release.