-8th November 2005 Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.100
+8th January 2007 Claws Mail 2.7.0
- SYLPHEED-CLAWS RELEASE NOTES
- http://claws.sylpheed.org
+ CLAWS MAIL RELEASE NOTES
+ http://www.claws-mail.org
-Sylpheed-Claws is an extended version of Sylpheed, a GTK+ based,
-lightweight, and fast e-mail client
+Claws Mail is a GTK+ based, user-friendly, lightweight, and fast
+email client.
-Notes for this release:
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-
-* etpan >= 0.40 is now required for IMAP support
- 0.40 fixes the SSL connection errors that some users experienced.
-
-* Buffer overflows in the address book 'Import LDIF/Mutt/Pine file'
- functions were fixed. This was a security hole. It only affected
- these address book import functions, but we recommend that everyone
- upgrade.
+Claws Mail was previously known as Sylpheed-Claws.
New in this release:
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-* GnuPG support:
- Signature checking is now non-blocking
+* The --select option can now also select emails by Message-ID
-* The URLs in the About window are now clickable
+* 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
-* the man page has been updated and renamed 'sylpheed-claws'
+* 'New Message format' has been added to the Compose/Writing options,
+ this works like the Quote format and the same symbols are supported
-* Bug fixes, including the following:
- o bug 314, 'Queue does not empty under certain circumstances'
- o bug 841, 'Sort by the From field doesn't work'
- o Fix replying to ml when confirming subscription
- o Fix totals when read messages are hidden or quicksearch is
- on
- o Fix addressbook import of base-64 encoded items
+* 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
-For further details of the numbered bugs listed above consult
-www.thewildbeast.co.uk/sylpheed-claws/bugzilla/index.cgi
+* 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
-* and other code reorganisation, cleanups, and more.
+* 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
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-See ChangeLog and README for full information regarding changes in
-this release.
+See ChangeLog for full information regarding changes in this release.