-2nd July 2007 Claws Mail 2.10.0
+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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-
-libetpan 0.49 is now required for IMAP support
-
New in this release:
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-* Added "From, To or Subject" to the QuickSearch types.
-
-* Added handling of the 'a' key to loop through a mail's MIME parts.
-
-* In the Compose window "Add to address book" has been added to the
- context menu of the sender and recipient fields.
-
-* Implemented a proper References filtering condition.
-
-* Added the possibility to cancel receiving in IMAP accounts.
-
-* Made offline synchronisation faster.
-
-* Added an alternate way to fetch flags on IMAP, which improves
- performance with some servers, (like Exchange).
- See "Bandwidth-efficient mode" in IMAP accounts' Receive
- preferences.
-
-* Allow manual sorting of Templates.
-
-* Templates improvements: easier syntax, add some useful variables.
-
-* Implemented per-account and per-folder compose/reply/forward
- Templates.
-
-* Added a QuickSearch option to automatically run a search selected
- from the history.
-
-* Made the Summaries Preferemces page "when entering a folder..."
- options fully customisable.
+* 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
-* Added an "Open last opened folder at startup" option to the
- Summaries page in the Prerferences.
+* '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.
-* Changed the Preference "Only mark as read when opened in new
- window" on the Summaries page to "Only mark as read when opened
- in new window, or replied to".
+* '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.
-* Allow disabling mail filtering plugins on a per-account
- basis.
+* A short symbol has been added the QuickSearch Extended mode: 'ha',
+ an abbreviated form of 'has_attachment'.
-* Added an option to the Bogofilter and SpamAssassin plugins to
- enable marking saved spam as Read.
+* Basic session statistics are now available, from the Statistics
+ tab in About dialog and the command-line.
-* Added a warning about encryption limits, which can be disabled.
+* 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.
-* Removed the "Download all" preference from POP3 accounts; it
- was useless and confusing.
-
-* Re-organized some Preferences page.
-
-* Replaced the tabbed layout in Account Preferences with pages.
-
-* Renamed 'Protocol Log' to 'Network Log'
-
-* Added a few cursor improvments while Claws is busy.
-
-* Added support for CRLF in headers of messages.
-
-* Added support for a few more date formats (RFC3339 subsets).
-
-* The keypad's Enter key now does the same as the Return key.
-
-* Improved LDIF import, better error handling, UI cleanup.
-
-* LDAP write support has been added.
-
-* Use Hildon's file chooser on Maemo.
-
-* Updated Brazilian Portuguese, British English, French, German,
- Hungarian, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Spanish translations.
+* Updated translations: Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, German, French, Hungarian,
+ Indonesian, Lithuanian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish,
+ Traditional Chinese.
* Bug fixes:
- o bug 848, 'Redirect breaks GnuPG'
- o bug 1217, 'reentrancy problems with time functions'
- o bug 1248, 'Core dumps after unloading plugin and clicking
- on load plugins'
- o bug 1249, 'Error handling for news errors needs
- modification'
- o Race condition when automatically drafting due to
- insertion on re-edit.
- o Consider "- -- \n" as signature separator (fixes signature
- stripping when replying to PGP/Inline signed emails).
- o Race condition crash when reconnection fails on IMAP.
- o Raising log windows when they are either minimized or in
- background.
- o Occasional crasher when cancelling message sending.
- o Stale news statusbar when scanning fails.
- o A few race conditions when sending/drafting emails.
- o Building of some plugins in Mac OS X.
- o Don't decode leading ENV_ and ~ in P_PASSWORD configuration
- values.
- o Incoming messages from local accounts always get filtered
- regardless of the preference.
- o Use gethostname() instead of uname(), fixes failures to
- determine hostname on some BSDs.
- o Crash if fork() fails when resolving hostnames.
- o Infinite loop when exiting with compose window(s) opened,
- when the draft folder is on IMAP and unreachable.
- o Sizing/alignment of the button bar in plugins window.
- o Copying text from HTML parts.
- o 'make distcheck' failure
-
+ 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.